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Beware The Hawk
by A.J. O’Connell
Sure, being a courier for a secret, possibly terrorist society has its risks, but the pay was
worth it. At least I thought it was until I was ordered to make a late-night run to Boston
to meet an opium-addicted, vodka-addled contact, who blows the deal.
Now I am being hunted as I hobble, injured through the streets of Beantown. When I
discover a gun and my new assignment, I wonder if perhaps I made a bad career choice.
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The Watchmaker
by Caroline Misner
In 1938, Germany was a dangerous place to be. The rise of the Third Reich made life
precarious for Jews and their sympathizers. Anti-Semitism was on the rise throughout
Europe thanks to Nazi propaganda. A nationwide boycott of businesses owned by Jews
swept throughout Germany, culminating in Kristallnacht on November 9 and 10, 1938.
Stormtroopers and civilians ransacked and destroyed Jewish homes and businesses,
burned synagogues and murdered 91 innocent people. Wilhelm Plum, a mild mannered
shopkeeper, has turned a blind eye to the growing anti-Semitism in his country, naively
believing that no harm will come to him or his young business partner, Ruben Geller, a
dedicated and brilliant watchmaker. But as tension mounts throughout the fall of 1938,
he can no longer ignore the imminent danger. When Wilhelm overhears his son, Hans,
a Nazi sympathizer, plan the impending pogrom with a friend, Wilhelm must risk
everything to save Ruben and family from a horrid fate.
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Birch Hills at World's End
by Geoff Hyatt
Birch Hills at World’s End begins between Detroit and nowhere, in 1999, when high
school senior Josh Reilly senses an apocalypse approaching. Josh's unease increases
as his privileged but disturbed friend Erik schemes in a journal he calls "The Doomsday
Book," where he plots revenge against the suburbia he's learned to despise. When
Lindsay, a sixteen-year-old famed for dramatic self-mutilation and questionable poetry,
becomes Josh's girlfriend, Erik finds companionship in a circle of bikers and small-time
meth traffickers. Josh, suspecting his friend Erik has become a competitor for Lindsay's
affections, peeks into the Doomsday Book and is shocked by what he learns. A web of
domestic strife, romantic rivalry, and millennial anxiety challenges two boys to stand
together as their youth comes apart.
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