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7 local authors on unwrapping the perfect books By Kate Tuttle Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 2:55 p.m. Email to a Friend DAVID WILSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Custom credit) Maybe you know someone who needs just the right thing to read over the holidays. Maybe you want to mark a special occasion with a memorable keepsake. At times like these, there is nothing quite like a book. This week we asked authors from around the region to reflect on times when the perfect books came into their lives as gifts. It was my first holiday season as a grown-up away from home. By myself in my ap...

Michael Tonn More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. It's driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. And the pandemic has isolated us from friends and family when we need them the most. All of th...