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The early fall literary season typically offers a plethora of new novels aimed at warming winter days and nights. This year is no different.
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‘Unthinkable’ by Brad Parks (Thomas & Mercer, $24.95, 351 pages)
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“The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe” (Margaret Ferguson Books, 183 pages, $17.99)
“The North Face of the Heart” by Dolores Redondo, translated by Michael Meigs (Amazon Crossing, 475 pages, $24.95)
“NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary” by Piers Bizony (Motorbooks, 192 pages, $50)
‘Beth and Amy’ (Berkley, 332 pages, $16 trade paperback)
‘The Postman From Space: The Biker Bandits’
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‘Animals’ by Will Staples, Blackstone Publishing, $27.99
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