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If you’ve grown tired of formulaic mysteries and thrillers, then you’re in for a treat with the new book “A Stranger Here Below,” Charles Fergus’s 19th…
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They aren’t the most aesthetically pleasing of creatures: they feed on dead animals, and projectile vomiting on their aggressors is their main defense…
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Across the political spectrum, there is growing recognition of the criminal justice system’s failures. But despite some important reforms in recent years,…
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John and Karen were our downstairs neighbors in the first apartment my wife and I shared. When John returned from some misadventure, often with me, Karen…
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The mission of the Bellefonte READS Committee is to foster a love of literacy in the community. Each year, the committee chooses a title for “One Book,…
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Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, “The Female Persuasion,” is ambitious. It follows the feminist movement from its naïve, optimistic swell in the sixties to its…
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Maria Hummel’s “Still Lives” is one of the smartest thrillers I’ve read in a long time.In the book, Maggie Richter is an editor at the Roque, a museum in…
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Marina Antropow Cramer’s debut novel, “Roads,” centers on a family living happily in the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, in the early 1940s. But…
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It's almost too obvious to be worth pointing out, but healthcare impacts everyone. And it seems like there's one thing everyone can agree on. Healthcare…
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Since 2004, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book has named a Baker’s Dozen of books each year that support family literacy.The books chosen for the…