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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human” by Tim Clare

    The Bookworm Sez: “Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human” by Tim Clare0

    It’s your move. Shake the dice, spin the wheel, count the squares and move your plastic piece a little closer to a win. You absolutely love doing this — it’s oddly very exciting — but why? Is your favorite board game one of skill or chance or, as in the new book “Across the Board”

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  • The Bookworm Sez

    The Bookworm Sez0

    Oh, what a mess! Quick, grab a broom and get to work. There’s dirt here and, ugh, something liquid spilled everywhere. Careful you don’t track it around or you’ll just make it worse. Seems like you’re the source of the mess, and in the new book “Earthly Materials” by Cutter Wood, it’s unpleasant but totally

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder” by Rachel McCarthy James0

    Call it a difference of opinion. You say one thing, your opponent says another. You thrust and parry, they rant and argue, you both agree amiably, then disagree vehemently. Is there a place you can come together, a consensus on which you can settle? You’ll find it, if you’re patient but, as in the new

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  • The Bookworm Sez: Books on Current Events by various authors

    The Bookworm Sez: Books on Current Events by various authors0

    The world seems to be moving at lightning speed. You can hardly keep up with work and family, so current events sometimes goes on the back burner — which is why you need these great books on things that are relevant to your life now, today… So you say that you simply cannot understand the

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare” by Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons

    The Bookworm Sez: “Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare” by Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons0

    One hundred eleven crunches in two minutes. That’s gut-busting, but it’s a good score for a Marine. Your Uncle Sam will be happy; he wants you to be a physically fit specimen, a part of the machine that represents, serves, and protects, and you won’t let him down. That’s a soldier from head to toe,

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