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Trending: Pharmacies are increasingly under siege by addicts who have been raiding them for their supply of Oxycontin. As a result, some pharmacists are now packing guns, while others are refusing to stock the drug.

# Ricky Jay, the magician, has been collecting curiosities of all kinds for a long time. Celebrations of Curious Characters, his latest book, is reviewed by Richard Rayner at the LAT.

# Meet the Tribes of Manchester.

# The Latest Fizz: Miss Peregrine's
Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

:: It's a book for now and will be a movie later.

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