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A look at several books about CNU and a murder mystery by a Williamsburg writer that's set in Norfolk.

Book Notes is taking a brief summer break, but meanwhile, of course, the life of the library continues in all its richness. As you know from the June Book Notes, on Sunday, July 10, Professor Stuart V...

In these hot humid days in Tidewater, why not travel to the cooler mountains and try some of these trails outlined in “Hiking Shenandoah National Park: A Guide to the Park’s Greatest Hiking Adventures”?

Arts Council of the Valley has awarded a total of $15,174 to 12 Advancing the Arts grant recipients during the spring funding cycle.

David S. Reynolds is recognized internationally as a leading authority in American literature, U.S. history, and biography. He is author or editor of sixteen books and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Wall Street Journal.

Perhaps the most affecting piece in Volume II of the Vermont Almanac is a compact essay by Tom Slayton about Vermont Life.Slayton edited the state-owned magazine from 1985 to 2007, nearly a third of its 72-year life span. Started in 1946 as a way to...

Questions for the vaccine protestor I recently drove to the Co-op Food Store in Lebanon. Waiting to make the turn into Centerra, I saw a large sign across the intersection.I couldn’t make out everything it said, but a glimpse told me what I needed to...

Chú bé Thất Sơn: Quyển sách 30 tuổi với sức sống mới 16/07/2021, 07:04 Chú bé Thất Sơn được tác giả, nhà báo Phạm Công Luận viết năm 1991, lần tái bản này đánh dấu 30 năm kể từ khi quyển sách ra đời. Quyển sách xuất bản lần đầu năm 1993, đoạt giải C cuộc vận động sáng tác Văn học thiếu nhi Vì tương lai đất nước lần thứ nhất. Phương Nam Book tái bản sách với...

℘℘℘ Mary Beth Keane’s novel, Ask Again, Yes, published in May 2019, is a lyrical, moving tale spanning 40 years, about Irish American cops, family, love, alcoholism and mental illness. Told with tenderness and empathy for the human condition, it is sprinkled with just the right amount of humor to carry the story along. NPR’s Maureen Corrigan called Ask Again, Yes, “one of the most unpretentiously profound books I’ve read in a long time.” Mary Beth, who took time out from promo...

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