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Browse our editors' picks.

Discover this list of books you will treasure long after summer ends.

My love of stories was first nurtured by my family -- and then at the public library.

When civic events are open to the public, take it as an invitation to get involved.

By Sacha Zimmerman in For America

When you tune out, you give politicians, corporations, and the media the freedom to do as they please.

By Sacha Zimmerman in For America

Confessions of a (way too) protective parent.

I knew I could sing. But now I had to prove it.

Celebrity and comedian Steve Martin remembers his father's life and death.

Why is Chinese food so all-American? One woman's delicious discoveries.

A jockey recalls the fight to the finish of America's favorite horse.

By Edgar Prado with John Eisenberg in Reader's Digest - April 2008

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