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May 25, 2012

Threats

After his wife's mysterious death, a man finds sinister messages hidden around his house -- one buried in a bag of sugar, another carved into the side of his TV. What do they mean? The answer proves essential to solving the riddle at the heart of Amelia Gray's unsettling debut.

Daybook

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

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In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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