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The Safe House, by Christophe Boltanski
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The Caregiver, by Samuel Park
There are certain characters that appear in fiction (and some times in life) as background […]
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town, by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
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The Shakespeare Requirement, by Julie Schumacher
For a while, we got a lot of students at our library who wanted to […]
Dream Country, by Shannon Gibney
Who is to blame for the conditions that are turning Kollie Flomo into someone consumed […]
House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
Like many tragedies, House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, are full of opportunities […]
Refuge, by Merilyn Simonds
Cass MacCallum has had a life of ups and downs. At ninety-six, she has more […]
The Dictionary of Animal Languages, by Heidi Sopinka
Over the course of Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages, several characters ask Ivory Frame […]
The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, by Teresa Solana
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