hese lines from the introduction sum up the hopeful, enduring spirit of Kim Echlin’s fictional novel about the heinous crimes committed against women during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the formation of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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Now that she’s graduated high school, Madeline Moore is hoping that her aunt Astrid will start to seriously consider making her manager of Books & Moore, the third-generation, family-owned bookstore that Madeline grew up in. After Madeline’s mother left her
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