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Some of the fresh and tasty literary selections available this week: * 7th Heaven (Women’s Murder Club), by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99). A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. * His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey (Knopf, $24.95). Che — raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother — is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late 1960s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, and soon Che too is an outlaw: fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippie commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. * The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff (Hyperion, $24.95). Ms. Groff’s much-anticipated novel spans two centuries: partly a contemporary story of a girl’s search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, it’s ultimately the tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family. * Stranger in Paradise, by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $25.95). Police Chief Jesse Stone faces his most fearsome adversary in the latest addition to the celebrated series. The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow” Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town’s history. * One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life , by Kerry and Chris Shook (WaterBrook, $19.99). What if you only had one month to live? How would you make each day meaningful? How would you relate to others differently? What would you do to make the rest of your life really matter? And on the flip side … |
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