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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s “Badlands” (June, hardcover) is comfortingly familiar: a New Mexico badlands setting, a weird mystery, and anthropologist Nora Kelly and young
One risk of doing a mystery series based on the alphabet is a book buyer’s knee-jerk reaction to associate it with “Sesame Street,” but ultimately
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It’s always difficult for a new actor/character to enter an established show, but Amber Benson and Tara managed to do it with ease in “Buffy”
“Free Fall in Crimson” (1981) is a particularly rich entry in the Travis McGee series. The 19th book makes me further appreciate how John D.
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