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As summer vacation draws near, keep learning alive with these three insightful and engaging novels. Originally Posted Here

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“A blank page is a very daunting thing. If you give me an 80,000-word manuscript, I can make it a good book,” says British author KJ Charles, whose favorite part of writing is revision. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that Charles worked as an editor for Mills & Boon, a British publisher of

At long last, you will soon be able to borrow the Dungeon Crawler Carl ebook* (and the many sequels) from your library. Libby struck a deal with author Matt Dinniman to make Libby the exclusive distributor of the wildly popular series, after years of being an Amazon exclusive. Like so much of the Dungeon Crawler

Most of us born after World War II knew Katharine Hepburn—if we knew her at all—as the warble-throated septuagenarian invited by Henry Fonda to “suck face” in 1981’s On Golden Pond. Sure, it won her an Oscar (a record-setting fourth), but it didn’t even hint that half a century earlier, she was Hollywood’s “It” girl. 

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Utah passed one of the strictest bills related to books in public schools in 2024. House Bill 29 (HB 29) allows parents to challenge books

Add this one to the coolest-jobs-ever list: In 2017, Shakespeare scholar and author Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maine’s very first Stephen E. King Chair in Literature. Bicks has shared her knowledge of and affinity for the Bard in the form of multiple books and an award-winning podcast. In Monsters in the Archives:

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I’ve been teaching literature for close to 40 years, and I’ve seen a lot of changes over that time. Although I’m not quite old enough to have earned a Purple Ditto-Ink Heart for my service, I am nostalgic for the Before Times when people had to read and think for themselves. Like many teachers, I’ve

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 25th, is Independent Bookstore Day, and book lovers across the country are preparing for a day of celebration. Libro.fm has some extra ways to get in on the fun for audiobook lovers, including the chance to win free audiobooks, a sale on bestselling titles, and a sweet offer for new members to

I grew up in Singapore—a concrete metropolis that was, until relatively recently, all jungle. The schools I attended there took students on trips outside the country, mostly to introduce us city children to nature. I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia with my classmates and teachers. We went

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In This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark, Craig Fehrman brings a new and nuanced understanding to the long-revered Lewis and Clark Expedition. There are innumerable accounts of the Corps of Discovery, and it remains one of America’s favorite stories—one of pioneering and bravery, collaboration and innovation. Yet Fehrman manages to breathe

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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jayne Anne Phillips (Night Watch) deploys unique depth and eloquence, and in Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir, she distills her goal: “Surely our hope in holding a world still between the covers of a book is to make that world known, to save it from vanishing.” Small

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Growing up in a family of artists can bring a life of passion—with the freedom to express emotions and exposure to a wide range of creative mediums—but such a life is not always easy to navigate. Lily Kim Qian skillfully captures the tenderness and tumult of this type of childhood in her beautifully rendered graphic

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As Tolani Akinola reminds us in her debut novel, for everything family members have in common—memories, traditions and of course, blood—there’s just as much, if not more, that they don’t share. In Leave Your Mess at Home, Akinola introduces the Longe siblings: four second-generation Nigerian American immigrants who must each confront how well or poorly

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Spotify has quite a few new book offerings this spring. For starters, the streaming company is now officially offering physical books in the

“I remember it clearly,” says the now-adult narrator of Matthew Cordell’s 102. “On that day—October 2—I saw a mouse at 102 Greenbriar Drive, scurrying between my feet and across the kitchen floor.” Like his Caldecott Medal-winningWolf in the Snow, 102 focuses on a child and animal who face similar difficulties (in this case, an illness),

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Mei Mei is a curious, loving 12-year-old who lives with her parents in 1884 San Francisco, where they immigrated from Canton, China, in 1875. She’s “not allowed to / go to a public school / in San Francisco / with the American kids,” but attends a school in a church basement with white teachers who

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hollywood relocated to Las Vegas this week for CinemaCon, the world’s largest annual convention for film industry professionals and media. The event, focused on studio showcases, industry networking, and exclusive trailer previews, brought big news for several high-profile

Swept Away The author of The Flatshare, The Road Trip and other acclaimed romances returns with a more adventurous, dramatic spin on her character-driven love stories. Swept Away will follow Zeke and Lexi, who … Read more Originally Posted Here

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Princess Aisling can think of nothing more exciting than her upcoming 18th birthday, when surely she’ll be swept away by a “charming courtier” to live a life like in her favorite storybooks. The last thing she expects is to be awakened in the middle of the night at swordpoint by a brawny, brooding teenager, who

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It is difficult to know how a reader indifferent to cats might respond to Cat, but I suspect mild irritation, if not a full allergic reaction. That’s because this book is not only full of cat-like objects—cat-shaped cakes, Japanese woodblock-print cats, cat-face swimsuits—it also proves that cats have always been everywhere, all at once. They