BOOK REVIEW

"In the Kitchen" follows the stressful life of Gabriel "Gabe" Lightfoot, an executive chef at the Imperial Hotel in London, who is balancing his job, his girlfriend and his family (who he doesn't see very often).

BOOK REVIEW

One reason why fans hunger for the next installment in the Plum series is the familiarity with the characters, setting and comedic mayhem that Evanovich provides in each story. But as funny as "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" is - and it is funny - nothing much changes in Stephanie's life, and it may be time for her to move on.

BOOK REVIEW

When the Federal Reserve Bank debuted a redesigned $100 bill in 1996, it was trumpeted as the most high-tech, counterfeit-proof currency to date. It took Art Williams four months to produce a convincing duplicate of it.

Some 288 MetroWest area male and female veterans are featured in "Legacy of Service," a moving exhibit at the Morse Institute Library in Natick.

In this latest thriller from Dean Koontz (a master at spinning dark tales), Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich becomes the target of Shearman Waxx, the most influential book critic in the country, after the publication of his latest novel.

Gwen Merchant believes she has the perfect marriage. She's even a bit smug about it until her college sweetheart walks up behind her in an ice-cream shop and orders two scoops of her.

One day in 1990, at a Salvation Army store in Levittown, N.Y., a man bought an old autographed baseball for $2. Years later, he began to wonder: Could this be the very baseball that Bobby Thomson hit into the stands of New York's Polo Grounds in 1951, a shocking home run known as the Shot Heard 'Round the World?

The library has recently added several new databases to its online resources. All are available in the library or from home for Norwood residents with Norwood library cards.

Whenever I go over the Piscataquis Bridge from New Hampshire to Maine everyone in the car with me must open their windows and let the “clean Maine air” fill the car no matter what time of the year. Then I wave my arms out the window and yell, “Yippee, I am in Maine!”

The trouble with outsiders such as the international news media is that they love to cause trouble. Such as telling the truth to the whole world. Or worse yet, letting the world see for itself those unfettered, unsightly truths.