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  Nonfiction

  “Lost Girls” examines the lives of five young women who paid the ultimate price for becoming sex workers

  Robert Kolker examines the lives of five young women who paid the ultimate price for becoming sex workers
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  Fiction

  This gangster has feelings in Charlie Smith’s ‘Men in Miami Hotels’

  This Miami gangster has feelings, too.
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  Fiction

  Remembering childhood and a family’s secrets

  Neil Gaiman writes a fantasy for adults, set in an English countryside.
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  Fiction

  Bloody battles in a bountiful territory

  Kent Wascom tells a striking tale of a teenage boy finding his way in wild West Florida.
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  Dear Abby

  Dear Abby: Victim of bullying in school is not ready yet to forgive

  Dear Abby: I was bullied from second grade all through school. In junior high the abuse was both emotional and physical, and it happened on a daily basis. My parents’ response was that maybe I was the problem — and if I wasn’t, people would stop picking on me. (That’s a letter for another day.)
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  What do you recommend?

  “I just finished Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick. It’s a YA coming-of-age novel about finding a new way when childhood dreams don’t work out. I’m recommending it to my teen daughter who enjoys photography, another subject of the book.”
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  Nonfiction

  Exploring the stories of a life

  Rebecca Solnit covers a wide variety of topics in this complicated, genre-refuting book.

• Science fiction

  Poets seize power of words

  Lexicon. Max Barry. Penguin. 400 pages. $26.95.

• Southern Cross Stargazer for July 7-13, 2013

  By nightfall, huge Scorpius crawls into the south. Bright supergiant Antares, red heart, beats in the Scorpion’s torso. The Sagittarian Teapot (center of our Milky Way Galaxy) drifts across the southeast. In the southwest, silver Saturn turns eastward. Sixty-two satellite moons orbit the icy-ringed planet in Virgo.
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  Quick trips

  Puerto Rico’s new cuisine is going green

  It seems like an unlikely place to go for a salad: a warehouse in the middle of car repair shops on a San Juan side street, where few tourists venture.
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  Travelwise

  Seeing Key West on a budget

  No matter how many tips you read or how much planning you do, there is no way Key West will end up being a cheap vacation.

• Dear Abby

  Dear Abby: Teen gets a distant feeling from closest family members

  Dear Abby: I’m 14 and for as long as I can remember, my family has never really been “together.” We exist with each other physically, but have never connected in a loving way. I can’t remember my father ever smiling at my mom or being happy. There seems to be an undercurrent of hostility or resentment in our relationships with each other. The lack of love in our house is palpable.

• Carolyn Hax

  Carolyn Hax: Reader writes about wedding party rejection

  While I’m away, readers give the advice.
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  Religion

  Ramadan fast a welcome challenge for many Muslim children

  Fasting has been weighing on Sana Motorwala’s mind.
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  Author interview

  Three-generation household a feel-good experiment that wasn’t

  In 2009, fascinated with multigenerational living and still nursing childhood wounds, Katie Hafner invited her mother to move with her and her teenage daughter, Zo, into a large San Francisco house.
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  Carolyn Hax

  Carolyn Hax:

  Dear Carolyn:
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  Florida: Diving into the arts

  Diving into the arts
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  A Fork on the Road

  It’s all Greek to us at Midtown neighborhood’s new Kouzina Bistro

  Thick, Greek-style yogurt hit the supermarkets in flavors like fig and lemon a few years ago, spawning a renewed interest in Greek food. The latest Greek restaurant to open in Miami is Kouzina Greek Bistro in the Midtown neighborhood.
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  Wine

  Madeira: From Colonial tipple to modern-day aperitif

  On the Fourth of July, we celebrate the 237th anniversary of the day the Founding Fathers declared America’s independence from Great Britain. Historians say they toasted their audacity with a heady wine called madeira.
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  Theme parks

  ‘Chima’ toys come to life in new Legoland ride

  Legoland Florida this week opened a new ride and related attractions based on Lego’s Legends of Chima toy line that ought to be a hit with the 2-12 crowd the Winter Haven theme park caters to.

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