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Small Mercies

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Small Mercies

1. Dennis Lehane

The Drop

“Lehane…is a master of the sort of deadpan-noir pioneered by the late Elmore Leonard… It’s a style full of dark situational humor, sudden mayhem and quirky regional grammar.” — Wall Street Journal “This book is as authentically grounded in place as his earlier works and more pleasurable than any tie-in novelization…has a right to be. And The Drop benefits from bracing blasts of Lehane-ian humor.” — Boston Globe “Understated and perfectly paced….What makes The Drop so good is not just the pacing, which is just about right, but the mood…. There’s also the very stylish writing. — Philadelphia Inquirer “A tight, gritty little tale of working-class crime in Boston… Lehane breathes pulsing life into his story through the small details of his stoop-shouldered characters’ lives, investing their every mannerism with unspoken emotion and the weight of too many bad decisions, all of which makes Bob’s transformation from quiet desperation to quiet determination a powerful kind of existential drama.”  — Booklist (starred review) “The bard of blue-collar Boston crime returns with a sleight-of-hand novel tinged with sin and redemption.”  — Kirkus Reviews

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Live by Night

“A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past.”—Washington Post Book World Nowavailable with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling authorDennis Lehane’s epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties,and one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successfulrum runner. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominentBoston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and properupbringing, and enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.But life on the dark side carries a heavy price, and one fate seems most likelyfor men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends aredetermined to live life to the hilt. Joeembarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes himfrom the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's LatinQuarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Liveby Night is a riveting epiclayered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, toughrumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruelKlansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Atonce a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is aspellbinding tour de force that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin wascause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.

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Mystic River

This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, SeanDevine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange carpulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and somethingterrible happened—something that ended their friendship and changed all threeboys forever.Twenty-five years later, Seanis a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Daveis trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay —demons thaturge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Seanis assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy,who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutaljustice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy’s daughter diedcovered in someone else’s blood.A tense and unnerving psychologicalthriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faithand family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on acollision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves. 

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The Given Day

"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."—New York Times Nowavailable with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of Americanhistory, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacularfamily epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between awell-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New YorkTimes bestselling author Dennis Lehane DennisLehane’s beautifully written novel tells the story of two families—one black,one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrantsand ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle forsurvival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, itexplores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country atwar with, and in the thrall of, itself.