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Author Alexis Hall is adored by fans and critics alike for his signature blend of witty repartee, endearing characters and warmhearted love stories. He’s already proven himself to be one of the best writers of contemporary rom-coms alive with books like Boyfriend Material and Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, and this year he’s making the

There’s an adage that says a rising tide lifts all boats. These three picture books introduce women who improved not only the lives of those around them but also the lives of generations to come. One Wish Fatima al-Fihri was born around 800 A.D. in what is now Tunisia, but her spirit leaps across the

Stories have the power to change the world, especially in these captivating fantasy tales. The heroes of these books will enthrall and inspire as they battle dark forces and find their paths.  The Legend of Brightblade Prince Alto lives in a castle perched on a cliff above the seaside village of Dawn’s Bay. His mother

Fair warning: a majority of this article with the presumption that one has read the book. If you haven’t and if you care about spoilers for a book that is 57 years old, I recommend holding off on reading this and finishing it up first.  AppleTV released a new animated series based on Harriet the

A new year means a whole slew of new book releases to look forward to, especially when it comes to the best thriller books. 2022 is set to bring plenty of highly anticipated new titles to shelves from across all genres, including sci-fi and fantasy, romance, nonfiction, and of course, thrillers. Whether you love pulse-pounding

Representation of Indian romantic relationships in books and movies rarely escape the haunting shadow of the grand Indian arranged marriage. The arranged marriage trope exoticizes a culture that has a lot else to offer, and it glorifies the classism, sexism, and colorism inherent in that institution. While an arranged marriage might be a few diasporic

Taking a break from reading for pleasure is totally normal. Whether you’ve been devoting time and energy to education, work, caring for others, or caring for yourself, I’m glad you’re back to carving out some time to read. You might feel a lot of pressure to make the most of that time or to read

2022 is shaping up to be a big year for exciting Marvel events. Chip Zdarsky is leading the Devil’s Reign event that shifted the paradigm in a big way for Daredevil, Kingpin, and Elektra beginning last year. It will end with an “Omega” issue in May. Dan Slott’s and Carlos Pacheco’s Fantastic Four: Reckoning War

I’ve never had an easy time getting to sleep. From childhood onward, I’ve found the idea of being able to go to sleep the moment your head hits the pillow baffling. How do you just…stop thinking? It’s not something that gets any easier the harder you try, and I’ve spent many nights spiraling into panic

We take the internet for granted sometimes, and I say this as someone who had access to the internet for most of my teen years. I grew up before social media, for which I am deeply grateful, but I still had access to Instant Messenger, to chat rooms, to burgeoning websites with forums from my

If you’re fired up about book challenges and want to do one actionable thing about it that requires little more than a few minutes of time, this one’s for you. One of the several possible ways to fight book challenges is being tuned into your local school and library boards. School boards tend to be

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This week, Oklahoma Attorney General announced an investigation into obscenity in books throughout the state’s schools and libraries. Fifty one titles were presented for review, the bulk coming from complaints by the group Reclaiming Oklahoma Parent Empowerment and the Tulsa chapter of Moms For Liberty. The entire list of titles under review are available here.

On October 29, 2021, a fragment — 13 pages, comprising the whole of Henry IV Part One — of Shakespeare’s First Folio will be up for auction. Its value is estimated at $50,000–100,000, and bidding will begin at $26,000. Fred Holabird, the president of auction house Holabird Western Americana Collections, says it is “of inestimable

In author-illustrator David Biedrzycki’s hilarious new picture book, secret agent Bubble07 is an alien who happens to look like a plush unicorn and has been tasked with a challenging mission: to infiltrate a human Earthling family and determine if the unicorn army should invade Earth.  Bubble07 is beamed down into a video arcade, where a

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Natasha Farrant’s Voyage of the Sparrowhawk whisks readers away on an enthralling and heartwarming adventure helmed by two young orphans, set in England in the aftermath of World War I.  Feisty, impetuous Lotti and steady, determined Ben meet by chance and become fast friends at the very moment each needs a friend the most. Lotti

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In this cumulative picture book, debut author Anne Wynter and Caldecott Honor illustrator Oge Mora knock it out of . . . well, out of the red brick building.  “WaaaAAH!” yells baby Izzie, popping up in her crib and waking her neighbor’s parrot in the apartment building where they both live. The baby’s squalling and

In her autobiography, All In (18 hours), Billie Jean King tells of her triumphs and struggles both on and off the tennis court, from her hardscrabble childhood in Long Beach, California, to her present-day life in New York City. Growing up in the 1960s, King’s inquisitive and rebellious spirit reflected the era, as she refused

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Jordan Manning is a crime reporter at the top of her game, but staying there is proving increasingly exhausting. When she moved to Chicago from her home state of Texas, she hit the ground running in four-inch stiletto heels—which didn’t deter her from being first on the scene of a steady stream of crimes in

Gina Peddy, the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction of Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, was recorded in a training session advising teachers to “make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust [in a classroom library], that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.” This isn’t

YA author Kate McGovern’s first novel for younger readers is the story of a girl who has been keeping a big secret: She can’t read very well. When her secret is discovered and she is held back a year, she struggles to conceal the reason from her friends and classmates. Secrets are an important theme

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Educator Tiffany Jewell’s book for teen readers, This Book Is Anti-Racist, became a #1 New York Times and indie bestseller in 2020. In her next book, The Antiracist Kid, Jewell brings her expertise as an antiracism and anti-bias facilitator to middle grade readers eager to discover how they can learn about and take action against

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The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” The Tanzanian author, who now resides in the United Kingdom, is the author of 10