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    Add These Beach Reads to Your Summer Reading Days
    Miriam Diaz-Gilbert
    • Jun 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Add These Beach Reads to Your Summer Reading Days

    Looking for a good book or two to read this summer? Here are a few. You have until Labor Day to turn a lot of pages.
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    The Stories Behind My Collection of Signed and Inscribed Books
    Miriam Diaz-Gilbert
    • May 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Stories Behind My Collection of Signed and Inscribed Books

    Years ago at our local library’s used book sale I bought a paperback book titled The Books in My Life. I added it to my book collection.
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    Three Uplifting Books
    Miriam Diaz-Gilbert
    • Jul 10, 2018
    • 4 min

    Three Uplifting Books

    These three books have a special place in my heart. They guide us in times of adversity, uncertainty, trials and tribulations, and even joy.
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    How Rescuing and Running With Books Has Expanded My Book Collection
    Miriam Diaz-Gilbert
    • Jun 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    How Rescuing and Running With Books Has Expanded My Book Collection

    I love books so much that I rescue them from people’s curbside trash during my training runs.
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