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    "title": "A World of Curiosities",
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    "collection_title": "Chief Inspector Armand Gamache",
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    "description": "hief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.\n\nIt\u2019s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.\n\nBut something has.\n\nAs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec investigators\u2019 lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they\u2019ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.\n\nBut to what end?\n\nGamache and Beauvoir\u2019s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother\u2019s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?\n\nAs Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.\n\nAs the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there\u2019s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.\n\nIn unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache\u2019s home.",
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