BOOKS & eREADING TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 100 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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[Press Release] Developer Excitement Grows for Amazon’s New Fire Phone Rate of app and game submissions to the Amazon Appstore have more than doubled since the Fire phone unveiling Innovative apps and games from developers—including Camo...
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Copyright is a hotly contested issue facing both authors and the publishing industry, as rights holders work to strike a balance between safeguarding content and sharing it across a variety of platforms to reach as many readers as possib...
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Berger’s biggest mainstream success was Little Big Man, published in 1964 and an ultra-wry tale of 111-year-old Jack Crabb
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by Kristen Eckstein In Part 1 of this article, I discussed what procrastination on your book project might be costing you. If you haven’t read it yet, pop over to 5 Reasons You Procrastinate on Getting Your Book Done: What is it Costing ...
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Libraries Receive Shrinking Share of University Expenditures (The Scholarly Kitchen) As a percentage of overall university expenditures, libraries have been steadily losing ground. This is the main message of an updated graphic produced ...
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The PA Digital Sales Monitor, new report from the UK-based Publishers’ Association, showed that ebook sales are on the rise for the first quarter of 2014. This report, which showed a 10.5% increase in digital sales, comes at a time...
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A new Humble Bundle is up, and it’s for comic book fans this time! The ‘pay what you want’ bundle has DRM-free digital comics including titles from the Walking Dead collection. Digital comics are not my thing, but I was...
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Tinder Press has acquired a “smart, brilliantly written” novel by Australian author...
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How Amazon's subscription model could serve some authors better than others, HarperCollins explores bundling with BitLit, marketing questions for self-published authors and much more.
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David Walliams has set up a new production company with comedian Miranda Hart and producer Jo...
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While Hachette and Amazon slug out the terms of their latest agreement, HarperCollins continues to quietly, steadily develop a publishing and…
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The subscription debate: Publishing's all-you-can-eat concern With almost the kind of timing that Amazon Prime promises its members, Len Vlahos' Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has arrived to deepen the debate about subscriptions and th...
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Independently published authors have responded with caution to Amazon’s launch of its new...
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HarperCollins in the US has signed up with Canadian start-up BitLit to allow people to buy...
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The Best Little Bookshop has made a key appointment ahead of its beta launch. The brainchild of...
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The creator of The Queen's Knickers and the Royal Nappy and now The Prince and the Potty teaches us how draw a baby, on the occasion of Prince George's first birthday Continue reading...
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'My favourite character was Emil, because he stopped at nothing to find Mr Grundeis!' Continue reading...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Berger, the witty and eclectic novelist who reimagined the American West in the historical yarn "Little Big Man" and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domestic farce, has died at age 89. Berger's li...
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Chuck Palahnuik is writing a comic-book sequel to his bestselling novel
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At the Yale Publishing Course, Craig Mod lauds Wattpad, despite its flaws, and urges entrepreneurs to delight and encourage your readers if you want to be a successful startup.
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Several high-end book publishers have made forays into hotel retail and hotels are adding lobby libraries, but are these merely pleasant redundancies?
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From the Beatrix Potter's mean mouse Samuel Whiskers to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe's cruel Captain Maugrim, Piers Torday chooses the most chillingly evil animals in childrens books Find out more about Piers Torday and his book ...
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Find out all about Piers Torday's The Dark Wild the third book under the spotlight in the Guardian children's fiction prize series Discover more about all the longlisted books Enter the Guardian young critics competition Continue reading...
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A timely and important polemic that demonstrates how capitalism makes us willing connivers in our own sleeplessness Continue reading...
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A vigorous, grimly absorbing tale of a bloody Caribbean coup impresses Ian Thomson
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How many people check Facebook more often in a day than they do any local news. Problem is, our friends are sharing details faster than we can consume them –especially because we are often checking in on them while we are on the go...
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Dutch Publishers have failed to convince a court to shut down a popular used eBook website. A potential battle between lawyers would cost millions over the concept of being able to sell your eBooks legally. The Amsterdam District Court r...
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Translation Tuesday Kathleen Heil Kathleen Heil for Patricio Pron I don’t know when, exactly, I began to equate literary translation with the institution of marriage. But at some point I started to think that the experience of creating...
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Second world war veteran wrote comic tall story of Battle of Little Big Horn that became film starring Dustin Hoffman Continue reading...
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Every single day there 60,000 cruise, cargo and oil rigs in operation globally. The vast majority of staff that keep these operations running properly are workers from the Philippines, Malaysia, Russia and India. Many of the corporations...
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July 22, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is TOUR DE FRANCE — the definitive account of this extraordinary competition and the men who have given it enduring universal appeal – for just $2.99. Overview In this updated ed...
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Qiu Miaojin's philosophical investigation of love and grief
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Less than a week after the publication of Marja Mills' memoir, "The Mockingbird Next Door," her story of befriending famously reclusive 88-year-old author Nelle Harper Lee, the book remains embroiled in controversy.
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Mr. Gentry’s books ranged from the Manson murders to J. Edgar Hoover to the madams of San Francisco.
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The New Yorker exemplifies a high society paper that chronicles commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. The paper has been going strong since 1925 and recently they have been working like fiends to make sure...
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When smartphones began, BlackBerry ruled the land and everybody fell in love with their messaging app (fondly called BBM). It behaved like iMessage, long before such a thing existed, offering up multi-person chats, read notifications and...
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Mr. Berger was known as the author of “Little Big Man” and books that explored the American West, but his body of work was broader than that.
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Do you have a fantastic idea for a new Android app, but lack the development skills to bring it to market? Udacity would like to help you turn inspiration into reality with their new course called “Developing Android Apps: Android ...
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Mr. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and political scientist, wrote voluminously about the nature of leadership in general and the presidency in particular.
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The new e-book subscription service has broad implications for book lovers.
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Friendship author Emily Gould is known for her tendency to overshare, but it seems the Emily Books founder regrets the impact it's had on her relationship with fellow writer Lena Dunham. In recent weeks, Gould has told multiple media out...
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News of an upcoming superhero movie is always exciting for fans of the genre, so when Marvel announced one was in the works –everybody was wondering who the star of the show would be. Turns out the next big feature is all about the...
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“Do Not Sell at Any Price,” by Amanda Petrusich, and “Dust & Grooves,” by Eilon Paz, look at people who are obsessive about collecting old records.
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Over the course of the last few years our News App for Android was not very compelling. It was slow, unwieldy and not indicative to the simplified vision we had for reading our stories on your phone or tablet. We have solved this situati...
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Welcome back to the Monday Edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show with Michael Kozlowski and Jeremy Greenfield of DBW. Today on the show we talk about Kindle Unlimited, an overview and if its good for indie authors. We also talk about n...
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A study of alcohol — its manufacture and consumption — highlights its reliance on good chemistry and the magical process of fermentation that turns sugars into intoxicating drinks.
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Some interesting details on the sequel to Fight Club have been revealed by author Chuck Palahniuk and illustrator Cameron Stewart, with the graphic novel centring on the narrator during a midlife crisis.
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BISG's major study on subscription models of selling digital content released today and is available here for immediate download. According to the study, publishers overwhelmingly agree that subscription will have a positive impact on th...
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The story stars a character named Bryn Aven, a tracker and an outcast. Macmillan will release the first book on January 06, 2015. (Entertainment Weekly)
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“Just as there are good and bad adult novels, there are good and bad YA novels. To snidely pan the entire YA genre as being an embarrassment for any adult to enjoy is both small-minded and myopic. YA is a … Read More
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NEW YORK, NY — Kids’ Right to Read Project and other organizations have expressed concern about a request for a district-wide ban on John Green’s award-winning novel Looking For Alaska in Waukesha, Wisconsin schools.In a lett...
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A lifelong ocean advocate and aquatic educator examines the biocentric and neurochemical wonderments of water. Passionately dedicated to oceanic sciences, marine biologist and California Academy of Sciences research associate Nichols pre...
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Newly independent readers with younger siblings will be sympathetic with Lulu Witch’s frustrations concerning Witch Baby and amused when her remedial potion and spell deliver unexpected results. With Witch Baby around, Lulu does not get ...
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What do you do when you start a blog that gains national attention and then feel as though you’ve moved beyond it? The answer for debut author Shapiro is, write a novel about it. The tale starts in New York City in 2008, when the narrato...
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A spunky girl who dresses up as a black cat is sure her mother is really a witch. Turn the pages to see if this is true. Muncaster focuses her debut picture book on the daily activities that this mother and daughter enjoy together. The h...
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Sprouting bodies and grins, the states introduce themselves alphabetically in this Basher History gallery. Following the series’ cast-in-stone design, each entry poses in a cartoon portrait with small emblems representing prominent...
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In Basher’s latest set of breezy “self”-portraits, 58 gods, demigods and mythological creations of diverse sort step up in turn to the microphone. The entrants are limited to the ancient Egyptian, Norse and Greco-Roman ...
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A behind-the-scenes look at the life of circus and zoo elephants. While centered on the story of one performance elephant, Billie, Bradley ( Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills , 2010) exposes the...
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In a series of scenes both silly and gently humorous, the ever persistent Mouse works hard to persuade gruff-but-lovable bear to become a library user. “One morning, Bear heard a tap-tap-tapping on his door.” Readers already ...
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Move over, millennials: There are few folks younger than 50 in the love-thwarted but intriguing circle of friends created by debut novelist Dainty. The center of the action is an unhappy London family, riven by a recent divorce. Wife Pen...
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Man and dog take to the road. Hoping to “celebrate the breadth of human-dog relationships in contemporary life,” journalist Denizet-Lewis (Writing and Publishing/Emerson Coll.; American Voyeur: Dispatches from the Far Reaches of Modern ...
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An upbeat biography of the prolific, much-loved Irish writer. Binchy (1940-2012) wrote about what she knew: love, friendship and community in small Irish towns like Dalkey, where she grew up in a conservative Catholic family. Dudgeon ( N...
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Hyde’s followers, who love the warmth and inspiration they draw from her work ( Walk Me Home , 2013, etc.), won’t be disappointed by this latest effort. August is on his way to Yellowstone to go camping, but his RV has broken down, leavi...
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The life of a noted Burmese newspaper editor and activist, recounted by his daughter. Ed Law-Yone, outspoken owner, editor and publisher of Rangoon Nation , the city’s most influential newspaper, left his writings, diaries, notes and le...
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A story about a newspaper, a family, a strike, and social and economic change—sketched against the backdrop of New York in the 1990s. New York Times writer and columnist Araton knows newspapers and knows New York, and in his ...
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A foreign correspondent examines the intertwining histories of two Tomlinson families—one white, the other black—who shared a common past spent on a Texas slave plantation. After spending more than a decade covering wars in A...
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A retelling of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast , told from the Beast’s perspective. The story opens as the Beast contemplates whether Belle—recently made a prisoner in his castle—will ever come to love him. The time...
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A bulletin from an earlier era of American political paralysis. A century ago, much of America was frustrated and angry with a do-nothing Congress held captive by wealthy interests and controlled by obstructionist Republicans led by Sen....
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A sympathetic portrait of a reluctant, little-known German-American double agent on the eve of World War II. There are several spy rings that overlap and converge in journalist Duffy’s ( The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old...
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Doug is back, and he’s ready for hands-on fun and learning down on the farm. During a drive to visit his “grandbots,” Mom and Dad tell Doug to “plug in” so that he “can learn all about farms on the way.” In the following spread, he learn...
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Radish’s ( A Grand Day to Get Lost , 2013, etc.) latest work of nonfiction is a collection of vignettes taken from her own life, from her self-conscious childhood to her days as wild child, hard-boiled reporter and devoted mother. These ...
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Monique Roffey looks nervous. It is the first time the author has given a newspaper interview, she says – an odd oversight in a career that has produced six novels, including the Orange-shortlisted The White Woman on the Green Bicycle , ...
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Poetry News: With the sun shining, kids writing, brains working and parents lurking, Lancaster Festival poet-in-residence Nicole Sealey helped children create their own poetry.Link!
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Poetry News: Cat Abenstein from Regina performs a piece of poetry during the second round at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words' poetry slam competition on July 18, 2014 at the Mae Wilson Theatre at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre.Link!
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Poetry News: Forest Academy School poetry winners : Asha Abdi, Zainab Arowoshaye, Chanice Barrow-Francis, Zoe Howard, Laiba Khalil, Angel Mckenzie, Camilla Mohamed, David Oyelami, Kristofer Smith, Natalie Stoker, Rhiannon Todd, Nelly Wre...
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Macon states her passion for poetry and self-expression. She also mildly echoes McCrory's accusation of critics as elitists in writing that neither publishing ...Link!
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Poetry News: Whether poetry is useless or dead is a question that arrives as regularly as cicadas.Link!
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And I saw something interesting--you know, that Larkin poem , "They f- you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do"?--the other day Rachel Maddow NYT almost commits accidental haiku: "They frizz your hair, these humid da...
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Writers of a poetry book, The Untidy Season, will be in North Platte Saturday to appear at Open Mic Nite at A to Z BooksLink!
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Carl Sandburg's poetry impressed me when I was a student at Johnson County High School.Link!
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Poetry News: On Wednesday, July 30, 9:00am-12:00 noon, the Cobscook Community Learning Center will offer "Fun With Words! Poetry for Kids," with instructor Ally Talbot.Link!
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The Broadwalk Centre, in Station Road, Edgware, is inviting people to enter its poetry competition based on the events during the war. Judges will select two winners, one under 16 and one adult entry, to receive a £50 book voucher. Link!
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Pair with: today's new Millions piece on publishers' struggle to turn the love of poetry into poetry sales .Link!
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Forests and fields lie just north of the Gulf, teeming with boar and hunted by the wolf. We rack our spears at sunset. Songs are sung, and all the hunters and their dogs are young.Link!
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The poet laureate conducts workshops and readings. Largely, the person chosen promotes poetry, poets and the arts. The trouble is it's a position that is supposed to reward achievement in that particular field. Most, ...Link!
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Poetry News: The Boulder Junction Public Library will host a poetry reading with local author Elizabeth Tornes at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 19, at Boulder Junction Community Center.Link!
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It has recently emerged that America's two richest men share not only a fondness for bridge, but identical taste in literature. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – according to an essay this week from Gates – count Business Adventures b...
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Can finger-puppets strangle a bloodthirsty dictatorship? The dissident artists of the Masasit Mati group began to use the tiny caricatures who populate their satirical series Top Goon because they were easy to transport, and therefore to...
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(NEWS) This article was originally published at BookBusiness. “One of the worst kept secrets in recent history was finally unveiled last Friday when Amazon announced their Kindle Unlimited. It has the potential to become yet anothe...
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(BLOG POST) By James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review – I’ve been a practicing book reviewer and a keenly interested observer of the publishing industry since the fall of 1976. My more than 30 years as a reviewer,...
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This week romancelandia is descending on San Antonio for the annual RWA national conference — including some of the RT staff. And we want to meet you! Features Editor Mala Bhattacharjee and Senior Editor/Reviews Coordinator Regina Small ...
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As the owner of a post-Barnes & Noble, post-Amazon independent bookstore, Chris Doeblin once had his customers’ sympathies by default. His shop, Book Culture, located in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, is known mo...
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Dear Ms. Krinard: I love a good sword and sorcery book. I love San Francisco. And, as someone named after her Norwegian great-grandmother, I have a particular fondness for Nordic mythology. So Mist, your contemporary fantasy story of a ...
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New York, NY — Penguin Young Readers Group announced today that the classic fill-in-the-blank word game Mad Libs will exhibit for the first time ever at Comic-Con® International: San Diego. The pop-up booth (#4612) will showcase a wide v...
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This year marks both the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the 115th birthday of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway eschewed college to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross on the Italian Front, and his experiences w...
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We love a good round of Never Have I Ever as much as the next person — after all, learning a person's secrets is always fun. But when you play with a group of feisty historical heroines with wild tales to tell, the game gets even better....
