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		<title>Featured Excerpt: A Map to Murder by Michelle Chouinard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SF Killer Crime Tours The Haight—Cush, Counterculture, and Crime <i>If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair—and head over to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where the Summer of Love’s flower-child spirit still wafts through the streets on intertwined ribbons of patchouli and marijuana.</i> <i>In late 1966, California banned use…</i>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why I Love Stories That Unfold in a Single Day (or Less)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s something irresistibly delicious about a story that races against the clock. I adore sprawling epics and slow-burn mysteries that stretch across weeks, but give me a tale crammed into twenty-four hours—or even real time—and I’m hooked. The pressure cooker of a tight timeline turns every decision into pure adrenaline.  In movies, this trick feels…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Best friends Joy Moore and Benny Abbott didn’t start out wanting to be famous. For Joy, having a quasi-entrepreneurial activity like a podcast was just a way to ensure that the two of them had guaranteed friend time, even as their personal obligations and her debilitating narcolepsy made their schedules harder to sync otherwise. So…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cooking the Books: The Diva Hosts A Murderer by Krista Davis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Domestic diva Sophie Winston has a full house in her Old Town Alexandria townhome as the 4th of July approaches. In addition to her sister Hannah and her parents, Paul and Inga, her Aunt Melly has come to stay, along with Aunt Melly’s new husband, Gus Eberle. Completing the set are two family friends, the…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Explore Mike Bowditch’s Maine with Paul Doiron</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Doiron]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<em>Storm Tide</em> is the sixteenth Mike Bowditch novel, and in some ways it feels like a culmination—because for the first time in the series, the story unfolds over the course of an entire year. The deaths Mike investigates, and that lead him to believe vigilantes are executing criminals who escaped justice, take him across Maine…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One “Miss Harriman?” Margot Baxter Harriman looked up from the month-old copy of <i>Harper’s Bazaar</i>. She should have made better use of her time waiting outside of Doctor Stephen Jameson’s office, but she’d left her satchel of paperwork at home. As B&#38;H Food’s company president at the height of the growing season, she had no…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1  I wondered what the man under the bed did all day while I was at school. Mommy went white when I asked. “There’s nothing scary under your bed. No monsters, no bad guys. Be a good girl and go to sleep,” she said as she tucked me in and flicked off the light.…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Harriet the Spy Encouraged a Generation of Writers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liza Tully]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I was on a panel with some other authors during which Harriet M. Welsch, the heroine of <i>Harriet the Spy,</i> was casually disparaged. Now, that is not a big deal. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and that holds especially true of authors on literary panels discussing fictional characters. How dull life…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by M. K. Oliver</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the outside, Lalla Rook’s life looks perfect. She has a handsome banker husband, two adorable young children and a beautiful house in the genteel London neighborhood of Muswell Hill: The house boasts panoramic floor-to-ceiling glass doors, a generous south-facing garden, five well-appointed double bedrooms, three exquisite bathrooms, and two light-filled reception rooms – one…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: Fury in Death by J. D. Robb</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prologue Summer 2048 Steve Redman thought: Raising a toddler killed brain cells. Just past midnight on a hot summer night, and two-year-old Luke wouldn’t settle. Trying to spare his very pregnant wife, let her sleep—or try to—Steve had pulled out all the stops. He’d read Luke’s favorite, In the Night Time, three times. He’d sung…]]></description>
		
		
		
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