By Ron Hayes
You see it at the movies all the time.
“Inspired by a true story” is the promise at the beginning.
And then, in tiny letters at the end: “Although based on real events …” And you find out that most of what you’ve just se
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By Steve Pike
It’s surprising whom you’ll find in a cemetery. Janet DeVries and Ginger Pedersen, for example, found such well-known West Palm Beachers as Burt Reynolds, Larry the Cable Guy, Ottis Anderson and Lois Frankel. OK, so none of these fou
By Steve Pike
It was quite an adventure for Daring Dog to find his way to book form. Whereas many books eventually become screenplays and perhaps even movies, Charlotte Jerace’s flying dog hero of The Adventures of Daring Dog started out as a screen
Cynthia Brown has been instrumental
in lining up the authors for the Festival
of the Arts Boca since it began in 2007.
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At this year’s Festival Of The Arts Boca, you’ll find ballet, banjo, Bernstein and, of course, b
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By Ron Hayes
How would you describe a map of Africa to a blind person?
How would you explain a chart of the fluctuating U.S. economy to someone who cannot see that chart?
How would you talk like a pirate?
The popular reading-incentive program for teens ages 13 through 17 returned for its fourth year, featuring books that had been banned at some point in history. Piloted by the library’s Teen Advisory Board and Young Adult Services Department and spon
By Ron Hayes
A TV fishing host goes in search of a secret love child. An African warrior finds adventure on that war-torn continent. A hurricane tears through a tiny oceanside trailer park. And a Palm Beach County firefighter recounts his real-li
Author Harvey Oyer III has been named Florida Distinguished Author for his trilogy of children’s books.
Below, a mugshot of Oyer.
By Ron Hayes
A fifth-generation Floridian, former chairman of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County and pr
By Steve Pike
Shagball and Tangles are back.
Lantana author A.C. Brooks’ second book, Dead on the Dock, follows the former TV fishing show host and his pint-sized friend (and former Elvis impersonator) through a labyrinth of adventures that includes o
By Steve Pike
Stuart Malin’s home is in the county pocket, but he lives much of the time in a world called Atria. It’s the world of a young man named
For the 2010 "Read Together Palm Beach County" campaign, almost 3,000 area book lovers have reached back to Nazi Germany in 1939, to choose a title they hope will steal readers' hearts this year.
They also made local history by choosing,
By Ron Hayes
Don’t believe everything you read about how nobody reads anymore.
Those good old-fashioned book lovers are still out there, hungry for intelligent novels, literate histories, provocative biographies, and eager to share their delight — o
