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The Reluctant Tuscan

The Reluctant Tuscan
by Phil Doran (2005)
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(945 DOR) Read it and revel in life as we don’t know it. Love its people, drink its wine and eat its pasta e fagioli — laugh and then know frustration with its foibles and bureaucracy and end up delighted to learn what life can really be. —NR

Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir

Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (2006)
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Mary-Ann Tirone Smith translates her ability as a writer of crime fiction to writer of true crime in her riveting memoir, Girls of Tender Age (B SMI). The author recounts her wonderful yet complicated childhood—immigrant lives in 1950's Hartford housing project to the brutal killing of her shy friend Irene at age 11. This Connecticut author is a masterful storyteller and her memoir is absolutely absorbing. —BT

Terrorist

Terrorist
by John Updike (2006)
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Terror is not John Updike's usual fare. Sexuality, yes. Aging, indeed. Art and literature, of course. But terror? Yet he sympathetically and systematically creates a young terrorist from the seedy side streets of New Jersey and sheds light upon who and what makes a suicide bomber tick. A tour de force from a foremost American author, Terrorist (FIC UPD) is a chilling look at the materialistic American mode. —MLB