I’m offering a ticket to ride. This summer, if you can’t actually get away, if you can’t relocate your body to a distant shore, then at least think about relocating your mind. Reading, we know, is our escape from reality . . .
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6/14/19
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When Marisa Bardach Ramel was a senior at Oceanside High School in January 2000, her mother, Sally Bardach, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told she had two months to live.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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5/2/19
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A group of men and women trickled in one by one to sit at horseshoe shaped table to start the monthly meeting on memoir writing at the Freeport Memorial Library.
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By Lauren Whyte
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2/22/19
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I always give books as gifts, but my method of delivery has moved into the 21st century. No more hard-cover tomes wrapped and tied in holiday cheer.
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12/11/14
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The idea for “Little American Man,” a memoir by Lior Lampert, 17, of Merrick, came from a Lampert family Shabbat table conversation about a year ago. “We were talking about how, 12 years ago, I couldn’t even speak English, and now I’m going to college ...
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By Brian Racow
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8/8/14
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Recently I sent a very dear friend a Kindle copy of Louise Erdrich’s most recent novel, “The Round House.”
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1/3/13
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