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    Dou­glas Stark
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    The Tree in the Courtyard
    Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Peter McCarty
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    Adam Kirsch
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    Robert H. Gillette
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    Stars in the Ring
    Mike Sil­ver
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    Andrew Nagors­ki
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    The Dev­il’s Diary
    Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney
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    Alan Robert Ginsberg
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    Mil­ton Viorst
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    1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front
    S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
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    Before Pearl Harbor

    Kim Brooks is the author of The House­guest: A Nov­el, out tomor­row from Coun­ter­point Press. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
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    John C. McManus
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    Gary Phillip Zola (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Editor)
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    Inter­view: A. J. Sidransky

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    Bar­bara M. Bibel
    March 15, 2016
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