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SAN DIEGO — Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joe Walsh of the Eagles and an all-star musical lineup will perform in San Diego this fall to raise money for VetsAid. The Walsh-led nonprofit, which benefits charity organizations that aid U.S. military veterans, has disbursed $3 million in grants since its inception in 2017.

It’s the last Paperback Picks of the summer (which I say with glee, as fall is my favorite season), and there’s plenty to read for those of you not busy rushing around in the sunshine, including some award-winning novels, a dishy Broadway memoir, and the final words of a Hollywood legend — all in brand-new paperback. Happy reading!

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What sounds like a standard biopic takes an unexpected turn in Minnesota filmmaker Bill Pohlad’s “Dreamin’ Wild.”

So, what is a beach read, exactly? I’ve never been entirely sure; it doesn’t really make sense to read on a beach (all that glare!). But here are a handful of new books that caught my eye recently as being potentially good summertime reading; any of them might make a nice accompaniment to a lawn chair and an iced tea.

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In this movie summer of screaming pink (”Barbie”) and flaming orange (”Oppenheimer”), is there psychic and aesthetic room for a dour, low-lit Australian horror film about demonic possession?

Fire is in the air this summer, literally, and at the movies. Though the flames in German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Afire” aren’t of the nuclear variety, the smoke from his tension-filled chamber piece about a few young adults at a vacation house near the Baltic Sea certainly gets in your eyes.

In a let’s-get-to-the-point, hammeringly obvious kind of way, “Sound of Freedom” gets its message across. Child sex trafficking is awful, that much we can all agree upon.

If you’re going to make a half-baked action-comedy, have the decency to put some enjoyable actors in it.