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Of the new books coming in February, here are the 10 that ranked highest with the Monitor's book critics.
The stories of a shattered Iraq war veteran and a missing 19-year-old girl are fatefully intertwined in Carthage, a dark page-turner from Joyce Carol Oates. As always, Oates's characters are multi-layered and intriguing, and the setting (a small town in the Adirondacks) speaks of an everyday America that is familiar yet also disturbing. This may not rank among the very best novels by the prolific Oates, but it's well-crafted and solid. You can see the Monitor's full review of "Carthage" here.
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