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“And the rights to produce the musical Les Misérables this season go to … Riverside Theatre!”

A novel seemingly about a beautiful young wife who disappears from her perfect home on the banks of the Mississippi River has rocketed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list.

Of all the billions of people who have inhabited this planet, only 100 or so (most of them U.S. Government employees) have experienced the magnificence of space at first hand.

In the summer of 1969 David Beckwith, a recent graduate of Old Miss, was not looking to be a part of history. He was just looking for a job.

When millions of Americans were drafted to serve in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, most were leaving their homes in cities, in small towns and on farms for the first time.

Kent Annan, along with his wife Shelly, spent more than two years living in Haiti and working for the Christian organization, Beyond Borders.

 Before he starts to write a new novel, Harlan Coben asks the question, “What if?” – and usually more than once. He muses about the...

Jan Karon felt that she had wrung just about everything out of her wildly popular Mitford series.

Author Tim Dorsey loves driving around Florida in his gray‚'96 Cadillac Deville.

Jay P. Dolan, Vero Beach resident and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, gives us the sweeping history of the Irish who lived, worked and worshiped in the United States since the 1700s in his compact and entertaining book, The Irish Americans.

You might say that Indian River County Commissioner Bob Solari is on a mission of continued self-education. Of late the available time he commits to in-depth reading – which he admits is never enough – is mainly devoted to the topics of history and philosophy.

Moorings residents Barbara Gervais and Judi Honiss possess a passion for reading, and it’s been with them for as long as they can remember. Today they are active members of several book clubs that read mainly fiction with a smattering of memoirs. When Moorings Club Manager Craig Lopes determined that the club was ready for its own literary society, he called upon this pair of dynamic and cultivated readers to organize it.

Mary Snyder has always been an avid reader. This you would expect from the person who is the Director of Library Services for Indian River County. However, she admits she went into the library field only after abandoning her childhood dream of becoming a race-car driver. So it is no wonder that her choice in reading tends toward the fast-paced, pressure-packed and tension-driven fiction written by authors such as Robert Crais.