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Alameddine, Rabih.
The hakawati.
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed. Continue »

Diamant, Anita. Good Harbor

Good Harbor provides a setting that works in this second novel from Anita Diamant. The author writes about the places of Cape Ann, specifically Good Harbor Beach, but also the towns of Gloucester and Rockport, the neighborhoods of Lanesville and Rocky Neck like a painter with a palette that contains vivid tones, shades, and depths of color. I live in Gloucester and her rapturous writing captured the best of the reasons to live there and did justice to the nobility and the mundane routine of the fishing community that pervades that peninsula.
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For the Supper Sleuths meeting of April 14, 2009

Beaton, M.C.,
Hamish Macbeth, #19
Death of a Village (2003)
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The Middlesex Concert band will present a musical journey Around the World in 80 Minutes at the Americal Civic Center in Wakefield on Saturday March 21, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m.  Tickets for the Saturday evening performance are $18 for adults and $15 for seniors/children.  Tickets for the Sunday performance are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors/children.  For reservations call Chris at 781-279-0108, or visit their website at www.MCBconcertband.org for more information.