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Dark At The Crossing
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Dark At The Crossing
Dark At The Crossing by Elliot Ackerman appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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