Patch Picks

What are the Best Summer Reading Books?

Whether you're still in school or well past graduation, tell us what your favorite summertime reading is or was.

Each week, Norwood Patch is publishing "Patch Picks" - a column that highlights editor and reader picks of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off, and more.  This weekly feature provides lists to help you, your family, friends, and significant others find the best places for everything from Sunday brunch to New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, kids party places, parks and more. This week we want to know your favorite summer reading books, for adults and kids alike! Whether it's a library suggested kids book, school required reading or a cheesy mystery novel to read at the beach, we want your suggestions. This is also a chance …

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Kiersten Barry

10:28 pm on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Anything and everything by Jodi Picoult!   more ›

Norwood-born Author Publishes "Diary"

Karen Miranda's new book meant to give spiritual comfort.

Karen Miranda said as a child growing up on Endicott St. in Norwood, she knew she would write a book one day. Miranda's newly published memoir, "Diary of a Spirit Medium," started as an actual journal and covers how she came to learn about, accept and eventually share her gift of communicating with people who have passed.  Karen's first "experience" came at age seven. She said that while preparing to receive her First Communion at St. Catherine's church, Miranda felt a presence around her. "Every time I looked over my shoulder, or around a corner - no one was there, but I felt them," she said. Miranda said, however, that she was not frightened by this. That her strong faith in God, along with the words of a Sister at the church, helped put…

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