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Quill Tree Takes Tremblay’s MG Debut Rosemary Brosnan at Quill Tree Books has bought North American rights to Another, the first novel for middle grade readers from bestselling horror novelist
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Posted on March 28, 2024 Life Magazine is coming back to life. It will be relaunched by Bedford Media where Karlie Kloss is the CEO. Her husband, Joshua Kushner, will
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USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in thirty years and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres.He wrote a couple dozen
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Depend­ing on how you reck­on it, the “Amer­i­can cen­tu­ry” has already end­ed, is now draw­ing to its close, or has some life left in it yet. But what­ev­er its bound­aries,
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THE POET AND University of California professor Lyn Hejinian died at her home in Berkeley on February 24, 2024. “[A] founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s
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In the days that followed Hamas’s heinous October 7 attack on military bases, kibbutzim, towns, and the Nova music festival, several high-ranking Israeli officials announced that they intended to deprive
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Summary: Prince Armand knows he can be a good ruler. Unfortunately, his father, the king, can’t see past Armand’s stutter and would rather marry him off to strengthen their alliances
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Wait! What? The Beatles Couldn’t Read Music? Dan Gutman. 2023. 144 pages. [Source: Library]  First sentence: Most teachers don’t really want you to know anything about the Beatles! They want
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She “never felt anything improper” between her brother-in-law and herself, she confided to Peter’s older sister Julia, “until one evening her hand touched his, and a thrill of emotion went
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Sourcebooks and Penguin Random House North Asia have launched Callisto China, a new publishing house that will publish Chinese-language translations of Callisto titles in China. Sourcebooks—of which Penguin Random House
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Posted on March 13, 2022 American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud was killed in Irpin, Ukraine. Renaud was reporting from a suburb of Kyiv when he was killed in an
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Bill Crider’s new Survivors Will Be Shot Again may be my favorite of all the Sheriff Dan Rhodes novels for two reasons.                    
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Michael Chabon was born in 1963, which placed him well to be influenced by the unpredictable, indiscriminate, and often lurid cultural cross-currents of the nineteen-seventies. He seemed to have received
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At the end of August 2020, Tom Cruise was on a mission to prove it was safe to go back to the movies. Donning a black mask over his nose
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Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. It is a list of “perfect” picture books recommended by all sorts of people. I chose
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Summary: “Always be ready for the worst day of your life.” This is the mantra that Becca Aldaine has grown up with. Her family are doomsday preppers, part of a
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Shift. Hugh Howey. 579 pages. 2013. [Source: Book I Bought] [adult science fiction; dystopia; futuristic; apocalyptic] First sentence: Troy returned to the living and found himself inside of a tomb.
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Dear readers, It’s me, Molly — your old reading companion. I’m back on the horse and ready to gallop through your inbox with regular installments. I’d like to thank my
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