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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir” by Khadijah Queen

    The Bookworm Sez: “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir” by Khadijah Queen0

    Keep your head down. Stay steady, mind your business, and don’t compare yourself to others. You are where you are for a reason, don’t lose sight of it. There’s a prize at the end, and endurance is the only way to get it. You have a job to do and, as in the new memoir

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses” by M.G. Sheftall

    The Bookworm Sez: “Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses” by M.G. Sheftall0

    Sometimes, you have to see the big picture. Look wide, take it all in if you want a good overview of something. Study in every direction, as far as you can and deep as it goes to make the best assessment — but remember the lesson you’ll find in the new book “Nagasaki: The Last

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions” by Arie Kaplan

    The Bookworm Sez: “The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions” by Arie Kaplan0

    Your next free weekend is going to be excellent, knock on wood. The moon will be in the right phase and there’s no Friday the 13th on the horizon, so you’re good. Your lucky socks are clean, you found two pennies this week, and a money spider crawled across your arm yesterday, yay! The weekend

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “One Yellow Eye” by Leigh Radford0

    That welt on your arm really itches. Must’ve been a mosquito that bit you, or maybe a fly or another bug of some sort. Doesn’t matter, it’ll stop itching by morning but in the meantime, you scratch, scratch, scratch. If you were a character in the new book “One Yellow Eye” by Leigh Radford, though,

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother” by Jill Bialosky

    The Bookworm Sez: “The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother” by Jill Bialosky0

    Remember when? When you were a child, ice cream cones, after-supper bike rides, play dates and romantic dates. Christmases and birthdays, homework and housework, favorite meals and all those remarkable firsts. You hold so many memories. As in the new book, “The End is the Beginning” by Jill Bialosky, so many are lost. She wanted

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