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cbabe

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1. The Displacements/Bruce Holsinger

Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:19 AM

Oct 2025

Suggested on this site. Thanks.

FEMA gets the call as cat 6 hurricane approaches Miami.

‘You want me on the plane to Miami today?’

‘You don’t understand. There will be no Miami tomorrow’

Wealthy white family flees in hybrid suv. Runs out of gas. Family becomes IDP, internally displaced persons in an Oklahoma field of thousands of tents.

For starters.

Not The Stand but something to think about. Especially after Alaska last week.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 19, 2025? [View all] hermetic Oct 2025 OP

The Displacements/Bruce Holsinger cbabe Oct 2025 #1

Yes indeed hermetic Oct 2025 #2

Finished it yesterday mentalsolstice Oct 2025 #5

Thanks. The mom is not likeable which keeps me from cbabe Oct 2025 #10

I agree about the FEMA Captain mentalsolstice Oct 2025 #13

Maybe a few mentions of rattlesnakes and tarantulas to set the scene. cbabe Oct 2025 #15

Sunny Sunday! Yay, Chet book #3. Peanut is awesome. txwhitedove Oct 2025 #3

Finished, "Horse," by Geraldine Brooks last night Bayard Oct 2025 #4

Agreed hermetic Oct 2025 #9

I read The Gun Man Jackson Swagger by Stephen Hunter. rsdsharp Oct 2025 #6

I'm stuck Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #7

"Handle With Care" by Jodi Picoult mentalsolstice Oct 2025 #8

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney MIButterfly Oct 2025 #11

Sounds good hermetic Oct 2025 #12

After you've read it, let me know what you think. MIButterfly Oct 2025 #18

Just started another David Rosenfelt book. Polly Hennessey Oct 2025 #14

I'm re-reading Encounter with Tiber. Jeebo Oct 2025 #16

Oooohhh hermetic Oct 2025 #17

Been listening to Alice In Wonderland the last few nights berniesandersmittens Oct 27 #19