Mrs. Shim Is a Killer: A Novel

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Mrs. Shim Is a Killer: A Novel

By Kang Jiyoung; translated by Paige Morris

Rumors of a middle-aged female assassin roil Seoul’s underworld.

Slither

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Slither

By Stephen S. Hall

If not Satan, why Satan-shaped?

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    We Fed an Island

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    Hollow Kingdom: A Novel

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    Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

    How a nation atones for its historical sins.

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