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"In the summer of 1974, a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of Southie, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train...
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"An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce's debut novel depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby-- the Amendola family's youngest son-- everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter's unexpected death. Bobby's mother Gail; his widow Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the...
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A killer is sending a message — but for who?
DI Annie Delamere and her colleague DS Zoe Everett are off duty and enjoying a walk on the Peak District's vast moorlands when they stumble across a mutilated corpse. The victim is unclothed and his tattoos indicate an affinity with the occult.
While Annie is put in charge of the case her long-term partner, MP Sheena Pearson, is confronted by a group of far right extremists. Rather than back down Sheena...
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BASED ON THE BOOK BY DENNIS LEHANE
SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: QUICK READING LIBRARY
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The Fennessy Family and Their Struggles
The Power Struggle and Neighborhood Dynamics
Protest Planning and Rising Fear
Mary Pat's Memories and Fears
The Mysterious Disappearance
Conflict with the Butler Crew
A Community on Edge
Confrontations and Truths Revealed
The Tragic Resolution
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New and selected poems by Louis Phillips, author of over 40 volumes of poetry, short fiction, children's literature, and popular culture non-fiction. This volume, a second collection of new and selected poems by Phillips (the first being Domain of Silence, Domain of Absence.
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Midsomer Murders volume 5
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In the peaceful village of Little Worthy, Bob Moss was about to open up his beloved model village, when he found a gruesome extra attraction.
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"The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
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