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ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library presents Ned Bachus, Thursday, Oct. 20, at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all. Local author Ned Bachus will join RPL staff to discuss his new novel. Set in one of Philadelphia’s most distinctive...

By Yomal Senerath-YapaView(s): Sandesh with his book Sandesh Bartlett’s mother was a literature teacher, so that before he was 10 he knew words like ‘hyperbole’ and ‘onomatopoeia’. But it was being in the choir stalls of the S. Thomas’ Mt. Lavinia chapel- captivated by the solemn beauty of all the liturgical praise and worship that kindled in him a love for language. The elevated diction and soaring old hymns with their “rich language, masterfully crafted with a wondrous melodic...