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No was injured in a fire late last week that completely destroyed a three-story Holiday Island apartment building and took local responders, mostly volunteers, nearly 40 hours to completely extinguish.

“The Celebrants” by Steven Rowley c.2023, 2023, Putnam, $28.00, 308 pages Everybody will say nice things about you when you’re lying in a box in front of them.

“Big Gay Wedding” by Byron Lane c.2023, Holt, $26.99, 336 pages Few things are cast in stone. Which means that you’ve usually got time to change your mind.