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Fiction

Bayard

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1. "The River We Remember," by William Kent Krueger

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Sun Jul 12, 2026, 12:02 PM

6 hrs ago

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances. So far, so good.

Amazingly, this is the second of his books that I've bought used that are personally signed by him.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, July 12, 2026? [View all] hermetic 6 hrs ago OP

"The River We Remember," by William Kent Krueger Bayard 6 hrs ago #1

Gosh, hermetic 5 hrs ago #4

What a coincidence... I wrote about that book in last week's thread Number9Dream 1 hr ago #29

Calamity Club author Kathryn Stockett also wrote ALBliberal 5 hrs ago #2

That's nice of you hermetic 5 hrs ago #7

Been saving Lincoln in the Bardo Ponietz 5 hrs ago #3

Yeah, hermetic 5 hrs ago #5

Off the Grid/C J Box cbabe 5 hrs ago #6

Sounds good hermetic 5 hrs ago #15

Winter World.. by A.G. Riddle... MiHale 5 hrs ago #8

Sounds kind of scary hermetic 5 hrs ago #11

I have the individual books...reading #1 now. MiHale 5 hrs ago #14

Wow! Will do hermetic 4 hrs ago #16

Lawrence Of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson. byronius 5 hrs ago #9

How nice! hermetic 5 hrs ago #12

Whistler by Ann Patchett PittBlue 5 hrs ago #10

So do I hermetic 5 hrs ago #13

No horses yet! PittBlue 3 hrs ago #23

Good day, readers. Today chasing squirrels off bird feeder and mourning txwhitedove 4 hrs ago #17

rather get more badass of the week books. pansypoo53219 4 hrs ago #18

Bingeing Ian Rankin Rebus books Easterncedar 4 hrs ago #19

Good hermetic 3 hrs ago #20

"The Traveler" by Joseph Eckert intrepidity 3 hrs ago #21

Excellent! hermetic 3 hrs ago #22

Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo mentalsolstice 2 hrs ago #24

18 pounds? Ouch! hermetic 2 hrs ago #25

Weather forecasts Attilatheblond 2 hrs ago #26

🤣 Told my plant-killer daughter this is the deceptive weather season... txwhitedove 1 hr ago #27

My location falls in a 'mountain rain shadow' Close enough to the storm blocking hunk of granite to be drier Attilatheblond 1 hr ago #28