Discover the impact of social status on medical care in 'Building the Worlds That Kill Us' by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.

Here are a dozen great books worthy of reaching back to find. Here they are, in no certain order, the Bookworm’s Best of 2024.

Once the holidays are over, you may look around you at a floor full of spent wrapping paper and sad ribbons and wonder, “What’s next?”

The mirror doesn’t lie. You look into it and the person peering back at you sure seems familiar, but older. More fine lines around the mouth.. Grayer hair. Dimmer eyes. Dryer skin. All this happened w...

Get lots of rest.

Once the holidays are over, you may look around you at a floor full of spent wrapping paper and sad ribbons and wonder, “What’s next?”

‘Part One’ focuses on childhood, abandonment

The mirror doesn’t lie.

By Terri Schlichenmeyer Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn’t get it out of your mind. People, packed like pencils in a box, tightly next to each other, one by one by one, tier after ti...

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Who doesn’t love a good hunt for buried riches?

Discover the top books of 2024, from nonfiction to fiction and youth literature. Explore new worlds and gain insights into the world.

Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn’t get it out of your mind.

“What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird” by Sy Montgomery

“Resist! How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America” by Rita Omokha

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez An average oak tree is bigger around than two people together can reach. That mighty tree starts out with an acorn the size of a nickel, ultimately growing to ...

Mother knows best.

Who doesn’t love a good hunt for buried riches?

Every day, you and your closest lady-friends have a good old-fashioned hen party.

Every day, you and your closest lady-friends have a good old-fashioned hen party.

“Novels for Winter Reading” by various authors

“In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World,” edited by Paul Gardullo, Johanna Obenda, and Anthony Bogues, written by various contributors

What do you think?

Your neighbor’s Christmas tree is covered with lights.

Every day, you and your closest lady-friends have a good old-fashioned hen party.

“Cabinet of Curiosities: A historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling and the Bizarre,” by Aaron Mahnke, with Harry Marks (2024, St. Martin’s Press, 322 pages)

Everybody, it seems, is doing better than you are. There you sit, a complete adult, but you can't stop noticing others who are thriving while you're feeling lost.

You’ll be scared but also get a sense of twisted merriment. If that’s what you crave around the tree this year, “The Dead of Winter” makes a nice winter break.

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Good smells have been coming from the kitchen all day.

Christmas tree lots, ugh. Santa, New England, snowflakes, mistletoe, blah blah blah.

And there you sat, glowering across the table.

An average oak tree is bigger around than two people, together, can reach.

That mighty tree starts with an acorn the size of a nickel, ultimately growing to eighty feet tall, with a canopy of a hundred feet or more across. And like

‘Beautiful Woman’ seethes with resentment, rattles bars of injustice

"The Startup Squad: You're the Boss: A Kid's Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Business" by Brian Weisfeld and Bonnie Bader; © 2024, Penguin Young Readers. 106 pages.

Good smells have been coming from the kitchen all day.

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Says Johnson, when elected officials use the “instruments of government to divide and polarize” voters and public institutions, they can easily send democracy

Books for Dad or Grandpa by various authors

School’s out.  It’s 2003.  Where did you go?  Home, of course.  That’s where the best after-school snacks were, where you did your homework, phoned your BFF, and watched your favorite TV shows.  And i...

Breaking and entering.

Your gift list this year has a lot of empty spaces.

It was a little hard to swallow. In fact, the premise of the entire flick stunk up the room and stuck in your craw until you could barely stand watching anymore. Ugh, no matter how much popcorn you st...

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