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Libraries Provide — Countywide!

WESTON — For the past 70 years, the Weston Public Library has known only two library directors. In…

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‘Martyr!’ is a dazzling, thrilling debut novel about identity and loss

It’s more than passing strange that in two months a pair of virtuosic novels have pivoted off similar…

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Absorbing new science fact book shoots for the ‘Moon’

Nothing has preoccupied humanity quite like our fascination with the moon. From ancient artifacts and cuneiform scribblings to…

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Poet featured for First Draft Writers’ Series

PENDLETON — The next session of the First Draft Writers’ Series will feature poet Amelia Diaz Ettinger, who…

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New books to get you through winter

It’s chilly out there, people. It’s reading time! As you plot your reading Excel spreadsheet for winter and…

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Hit ‘em while they’re down: ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’

It’s 1954. On beautiful San Piedro Island in the Puget Sound, an ugly trial is unfolding. Commercial gill-netter…

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Missing family? Mysterious calls? ‘This Plague of Souls’ is full of suspense

Nealon returns from a few months in prison to an empty house, his wife and young son vanished.…

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An 18th century midwife investigates evil doings in ‘gripping’ novel ‘The Frozen River’

In Ariel Lawhon’s “The Frozen River,” narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate the river that…

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This Dickens biography is no ‘Bah Humbug!’

Charles Dickens. For many people, especially this time of year, the very name is synonymous with “Christmas.” That’s…

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Small but mighty…visit the Helix Library!

HELIX — Most likely you’ve heard of it. Or possibly you’ve heard of the Helix crab feed, the…

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