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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People Weekly LibraryAware is having trouble with the covers. March 8, 2020
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The last passenger : A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series
by Charles Finch
A conclusion to the prequel trilogy finds Victorian detective Charles Lenox defying Scotland Yard and navigating the dual challenges of royal obstinance and class prejudice to investigate the murder of a first-class passenger at Paddington Station.
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My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Asked to help defend an older high-school English teacher with whom she had an affair at age 15, Vanessa struggles to choose between her romantic teen illusions and harrowing adult perceptions. 250,000 first printing. A first novel.
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Deacon King Kong : a novel
by James McBride
In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters. Tour.
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Separation Anxiety
by Laura Zigman
A once-promising children’s book writer navigates the humbling realities of middle age and dysfunctional family life while pursuing well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous changes. By the author of Animal Husbandry. 200,000 first printing.
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The mirror & the light
by Hilary Mantel
A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmith’s son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life.
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Actress : a novel
by Anne Enright
When her Irish-theater-legend mother succumbs to alcohol and instability, Norah draws on her experiences of surviving a crime and growing up in the wings of her mother’s career to rediscover herself as a wife, mother and writer. Tour.
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The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator
by Timothy C. Winegard
Follows the history of the nefarious and pesky mosquito and its impact on humanity throughout the ages and around the globe, explaining how the tiny insect influenced the results of wars, colonization and the modern world order. Illustrations.
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