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Stillwater, by William F. Weld (Simon & Schuster; $23). The flooding of five towns in rural western Massachusetts for the creation of a reservoir is the turning point in this elegiac novel about devastation in the name of progress and the durability of childhood memories. In 1938, Jamieson Kooby is fifteen years old -- still enough of a boy to roam the Swift River Valley looking for crows to shoot and catfish to behead, and just enough of a young man to fall in love with Hannah, a strange local farm girl who is a compendium of lore about regional historical figures she ...