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Long Mile Home
Dutton Adult
The Boston Globe reporter contrib- utes to the definitive narrative ac- count of the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon, the emergency response and the ensuing manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. Through the eyes of seven characters Rus- sell traces the distinct paths that brought them together last April.
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Every Turtle Counts
Peter E. Randall Publisher
In her 10th children’s book, Hunter draws on the real-life international rescue effort to save the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle in her tale about 7-year-old Mimi and the freez- ing sea turtle she rescues. “A capti- vating and compelling new book,” according to The Huffington Post.
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The Transatlantic Gaze
SUNY Press
Carolan tracks the profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors and screenwriters on American film. The Fairfield University modern lan- guages and literatures professor also explores how and why American di- rectors have adapted certain Italian techniques and motifs.
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Hidden History
University of Virginia Press
Rainville travels through forgotten cemeteries of central Virginia to recover details of the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for more than 200 years. Rain- ville, who majored in history and an- thropology at Dartmouth, published her first research on the topic with her thesis on the historic cemeteries in Hanover.
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Erotic Exchanges
Cornell University Press
Kushner, a Clark University history professor, draws on thousands of pages of Paris police documents to reveal the complex world of elite prostitution in 18th-century Paris by focusing on the professional mis- tresses who dominated it. “Kush- ner avoids over-contemporizing her subject, affording her women agen- cy but not more than they actually had,” according to The New Yorker.
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