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Week of October 16, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of October 16th include MISTER MONKEY by Francine Prose, which follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical; LITTLE DEATHS, a debut novel from Emma Flint (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction) that explores the capacity for good and evil in all of us; Beth Macy's TRUEVINE, the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back; and THE TUNNELS by Greg Mitchell, a thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall.

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The Killer Who Hated Soup: The Killer Who Series, Book 1 by Bill A. Brier

The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart phones? Who you kiddin’? We’re talkin’ 1956.

Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leaves his Louisiana home and hops a bus to Defiance, Oklahoma, a town not particularly averse to murders, just the embarrassment of them.

While helping his friend, Kindra, search for a ring that once belonged to her dead mother, Bucky is told: “Find the baby, find the ring.”

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