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From hard-boiled detective fiction like Edward Conlon's Red on Red to the social science breakthroughs in Tina Rosenberg's Join the Club, April's got something for everyone.
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18 Books to Watch for in April 2011

The Civilized World: A Novel in Stories

By Susi Wyss

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 256

These insightful stories, some set in a beauty salon, explore the moving, often clueless relationships between Ghanaian and American women.

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— Karen Holt

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