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Cape Cod books: Part 3 of ideas for winter reading by local authors “Not Always Home Before Dark,” by Brooke Newman (2020, The Troy Book Makers, $14) Set partly in Truro, where the internationally best-selling author has a home, this memoir is about a dog named Cajun, who was found in 2005 wandering the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He blossomed into “a world-class dog with a magnificent soul,” Newman says, though he loved to wander and became kno...

Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, “Hey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.” Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billy’s bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhli’s Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talism...

Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, “Hey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.” Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billy’s bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhli’s Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talism...