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Show T L KailWlftX) N life of the nearby river underline this FIVE QUARTERS OF theme. After a village girl is bitten and., killed by a venomous snake. Framboise THE ORANGE By Joanni nets a dozen snakes, crushes, their skulls and leaves diem to rot on the rivers Hank Mmtot,$2S BBN 00601M1S3 YY.- ; War is hell, aswc til know, "but die , last word un that stilt hasnt been said,..-Now Joanne Harris gives us abookthat ; . exposes the ugl'mess of war from the viewpoint of three neglected children French. viF .living in' a German-occupilage during Worid War II.Jn Five . ItS also a mysteiy. Why does Framboise disguise her identity when she ; returns to her childhood ; village after an absence wiU especially enjoy die episode in of SO years? A scandal !. hangs over her head from .which the eldoly Framboise and bey dial earlier time, a scaiH..: aging peighbar get the better of a hoodlum terrorizing dal so flagrant she is sure Framboises crepcrie. Their shared tri- -; she. will never be accept- -. ed back into her commuumph sparks an autumnal romance that nity if the people there .. cannot fail to delight the most cynical readers. Even for someone with skele- - 7 know exactly who sheii. tons in her closet like Framboise,it'j 7 This unknown scandal, gradually 'revealed to the reader through never too late to make clean breast of .: flashbacks,'provjdes most of the novels things, never too late to fall in love. V . Quarters of the Orange, narrator' V Framboise Dartigen unfolds a chilling (ale in which she and her two siblings ; ' find themselves collaborating with Nazis, trading secrets about theirneigh-bor- a for chocolate and comic books. " Thegreat strength of Five Quartan' ; of the Orange is Harris unflinching capacity-;honesty about childhood-r-it-s for treachery and cruelly. Graphic images of Framboise's war against die . . uo 1 . . : ; . . ; . . n ;Yy.-- suspense. 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Gayle Lynds weaves so many fascinating threads in this web pf suspense ' Sandy Httseby writes and reviews from her homes in Fargo, North Dakota ,' and lakeside in northern Minnesota Y. successes in die - Y corporate world. Neither has found v their better half,; ftfvs i&feo thrtsi?nti Lc-yt r Cc:ry . ; until they both ' dctlvws as rctn3"ce md return to their her- - 7 crp 3 i'. 3 '., y ; ' ' i !rr.Y.TYj.T:'r.lshC j;. itage in Eclipse Bay and challenge .;V;v I the old conflicts .VYi-- t .it between the Haites 5 i r?: jri'T and Madisons. . v..it itku. rs it I J If jy 1 1. 'J When their conspiirt L'3 riccc Cr so 3 L V agent'. .., .To . Lcyj3 tY.rt jtjl:; '- j racy-obsessed top-secr- MAY-200- 1 world-clas- . -- . teens in Krentzs tale: Lillian Haite and Gabe Madison are . 7. 28 ' ; . 0515130923). Family feuds are as old as.Romeo arid Juliet, but . .. - , -. ; poignant exploration of Y What might have been," .. ..when fate provides an opportunity for a ' new outcome. Leslie, Madison and Ellie met rm. the cusp, of adulthood at the New York , ; on the lighter, snappy side, Jayne Ann Krentz delivers a stray as sparkling as sun-rise on ocean waves in ; Dawn In Eclipse Bay .. Y (Jove, $7.99; ISBN . draw her into the shadowy world of, : where spies and counter-spiWashington Past reporter Jeff Hammond is pursuing more than a news story involving 1 deeply embedded FBI double Dcveraux (Pocket, $24.95, ISBN 0671014188; audio, $25, ISBN 0743504542) is an evocative and l : : ; yy; At the opposite'side of die country, three women who share a birthday ' ' reunite to.reconsider their lives as they turn 40. The Summerhouse by Jude Y Y' bland, Georgia DMV full of dreams, hopes arid ambitions; summer girls filled with zest and : beauty. But ambitions have unexpected results whether fulfilled or not, their outcomes '' don't follow expected . ' padia. Now, at midlife all. three, women are given 7 jtrZX die opportunity to remake Summerhouse the choices theyve made ilife. , in Deverauxs writing Jude , is cnchantingand exquis-it-e Scully and vintage. Hepburn and Tracy, with the added panache of passion that won't stand for stuffy pro' ' ' toed..'-.-- Don't try to tdl a romancc Writer that she just writes little : Lynn Hamilton writes frpmTybee , Y,V ' . . Tales of love and sultiy suspense BYSANDYHUSEBY . . between mother and 'daughter. Framboises mother Mirabelle mistak- cnly applies the same techniques to child rearing that she applies to grow- ing fruit trees! prune them severely, and they will : flower. $he discovers too. late that children dont " respond well to constant scolding and deprivation, MirabeLIe is also plagued by olfactory hallucinations. Prior to her terrible migrainesshe. thinks she smells oranges. The scenes in .Which Framboise takes revenge on her-- ; ; -- . . S complicated relationship ed . ; At the hearted' the .. novel, as in theaulhqrs earlier work, Chocolal, is REVIEW CT IYNN HAMtllON - nine-ycar-o- ld banks:. - ; do the book an injustice. Though Harris genius shines most trulyin her portrayal of the ways in which war compromises even the innocent this book is also rich in charm and whim-the same kind of graceful good ;; humor that made the authors previous book ChocoUn such a big hit, Scenes of the grotesque give way to moments of 7 i, gentle slapstick. .. are tiredof conventional Y People who treatments of the.elderly in literature ' mother by planting a cut-u- p orange near the stove so that the scent fills the house are among the best in the book. Harris . peveals her true genius in these episodes vindictiveness. Y pf Five Quarters of the Orange isnt ; . friend Arizona Snow is found near death and Lillian's cottage is broken into, Y Lillian and Gabe realize that going, home again means more that) facing the ' Y Y family.; Y Ech'pse Bay is pure de light. The ' sophisticated sniping between Lillian and Gabe is worthy of Mulder and ' t Ijl rrt l fj. Jcrfftca - : tt;s IyJ t' Jf w Cj If, S t:r-r!.rr- rrlJ-- x. f jvj 1 jh A -- f :s c v oV::-.- h' tef Y; e . ira |