By C.D. Rose
Melville House. 160 pp. Paperback, $16.35
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map
By Gideon Defoe
Europa Compass. 304 pp. $26
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Following another heated exchange between the Pentagon's chief of Naval operations and a top Republican, centered around the former's inclusion of an "anti-racist" book on the Navy's official reading list, "Fox & Friends" host...
November 1980. School boycotts continued. The country’s bubbling discontent was a volcano waiting to erupt.
At Huntersvlei, we were preparing to host our first training course. Behind the primary school, Anthony had built the requested “clubhouse”. Painted …
Suzanne Corkin’s 2013 book “Permanent Present Tense” falls into this category. Corkin, a research psychologist, presents a fascinating case study of her patient, Henry Molaison, a man with no memory. Molaison — or H.M., as he was known in the scientific …
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, plays his shot from the second tee during a practice round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San...
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and one of his top advisers during his administration, has a book deal
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Local author Tracy Beach will sign her new book, “The Night of a Thousand Heroes,” from 1-3 p.m. June 26 at the Florence Pioneer Museum and Research Center, located at 100 E. Front St....
Tremain Jackson | Special to the Reporter-News
One of the most anticipated summer events is the Friends of the Library Book Sale. Normally every June, the 2020 pandemic caused the Friends to postpone this fundraiser...
A couple of years ago I found myself gazing at the cover of a book I’d loved as a child: the 1942 Carnegie medal-winning The Little Grey Men, by the naturalist, illustrator and sportsman...
Published June 8, 2021 by Bookseller staff
Hamish Hamilton has won a three-publisher auction for The Trio by Johanna Hedman, a “strikingly elegant” literary debut which has been snapped up in a flurry of...
Hamish Hamilton has won...
It’s a tricky, disturbing debate, with few insiders prepared to go on the record. And as Grady points out, it raises fundamental questions. “Is the industry’s purpose to make the widest array of viewpoints...
A Mackay mining contractor has been awarded a $600 million contract to operate a Central Queensland mine, lifting its post financial year 2021 order book to more than $1 billion.
In a statement to the ASX, Mastermyne announced it would operate Sojitz Blue…
The first ever US Book Show managed by Publishers Weekly will return next year with live events for the first time since the pandemic began.
And Media Ink can exclusively report that it will be...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials at a Louisiana jail reacted reasonably to the COVID-19 pandemic by taking away printed books and giving inmates tablets on which they could read books instead, a federal judge...
A Clear Dawn edited by Paula Morris & Alison Wong.
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A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand is edited by Alison Wong who grew up in Hawke's Bay. Alison is visiting Napier...
The Sunday Mail
Budgeting books can give you a different perspective on your finances and help you make plans for your money. The five books below come recommended by certified financial planners. These professionals have...
While we await word as to whether the Supreme Court will take up appeal of the case of Harvard’s blatant discrimination against Asians, we note the publication this week of A Dubious Expediency: How...
New York: Eric Carle, the beloved children’s author and illustrator whose classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other works gave millions of children some of their earliest and most cherished literary memories, has died...
FARMINGTON – Local poet Sarah Carlson will be hosting a virtual reading and discussion to follow an in-person book signing event this Thursday and Friday.
Carlson will be focusing her talk on “Beginning Again”. She’ll...
(Minnesota Historical Society Press, $18.95)
On Dec. 31, 1960, Kim Heikkila’s mother, Sharon, entered the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. A tall young...
Over a long career in journalism, I have explored parenting dos and don’ts with many experts. I’ve interviewed neuroscientists, family therapists, bestselling parenting gurus and professionals working on the front line of teenage mental health.
As editor …
For the seventh consecutive year, the Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures have teamed up to help readers spice up their TBR lists with Summer Book Bingo, a 25-square downloadable bingo card...