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"Zoli," by Colum McCann

"The Terror," by Dan Simmons

"Wish I Could Be There," by Allen Shawn

A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22). In 1993, when the author was twelve, rebel forces attacked his home town, in Sierra Leone, and he was separated from his parents. For months, he straggled through the war-torn countryside, starving and terrified, until he was taken under the wing of a Shakespeare-spouting lieutenant in the government army. ...

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