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Camilla reveals her favourite childhood book still makes her cry

The Duchess of Cornwall said Black Beauty was her favourite book during her “pony-mad” youth and it still makes her emotional, as she highlighted the importance of reading to children. Camilla revealed her father, Major...

These Were the DC Public Library’s Most Popular Books in 2021

Image by Chinnapong via iStock/Getty Images Plus. Hot vax summer never really took off, so what did people in DC do instead? They read books, apparently! The DC Public Library’s exhaustive list of its most...

Fungie, Ireland’s Favourite Dolphin, Brought to Life in New Children’s Book Called ‘Finn’s Friend Fungie’

Down by the Dock and Finn's Friend Fungie Books On the heels of the first anniversary of Fungie's disappearance, a heart-warming new way to remember him has arrived. There are few dolphins that inspire such fond...

Lauren Grabois Fischer and Baskal Korkis Launch Today’s Best Selling How-To-Guide Books

Written in partnership with Thomas Herd, founder of T1 Advertising. The prevailing zeitgeist in contemporary literature has gravitated more and more towards inspirational practical reads. Specifically, today’s new best sellers have largely been relegated in...

Norwood Community Library Brings Free Books to The Bronx

By SARAH HUFFMAN Outside the Keeper’s House on Reservoir Oval East in the Norwood section of the Bronx is a light blue library mailbox which, since around July 2021, has been regularly filled with used...

Do Great Books still matter? For Roosevelt Montás, they are essential.

The study of the Great Books – a fluctuating list of predominantly Western texts hailed by academics – has long been criticized as elitist, sexist, and Eurocentric. But Roosevelt Montás is coming to the...

Papua New Guinea: Bahá’í Most Holy Book published in Tok Pisin

Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i-Aqdas has been translated into the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea after a decades-long process.

Man does not live by bread alone, books given as present for Saint Nicholas in Holland

Hilversum, 5 December 2021 - During their fifth distribution campaign in Hilversum last Saturday, the volunteers of The Way To Happiness foundation ran into Saint Nicholas and Piet (note: companion of Saint Nicholas in...

How Amazon’s ‘Wheel of Time’ is different from the books

A 100% faithful adaptation of The Wheel of Time was never going to be possible. Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series spans 14 books — 15 if you count the prequel — totaling over 4...

Crowning achievement in the books for hiker

OTTAWA — Brandon Weis has lived up to his nickname, “Horsepower.” The Ottawa resident and Ohio State University alumnus earned the moniker during his first hiking trip a few years ago in California. “I went there with other OSU students and often carried …

Cambria author Ivy Cayden pens a YA book with an incorporated music playlist

It's no secret that teenagers love music, and author Ivy Cayden has cleverly capitalized on that love by incorporating a Spotify playlist into her debut novel Everything All at Once, part of her planned...

110 years later, a book has finally been returned to Boise library

By Sara Smart, CNN About 110 years ago, a book was checked out from a Boise, Idaho library, and it has finally been returned. The “New Chronicles of Rebecca” was originally checked out in 1910 from...

Calls for school book burnings and bans on the rise, researchers say

The American Library Association has reported a troubling rise in organised attempts to ban – and in some cases even burn – library books. According to the ALA, the majority of these groups pushing to...

Authors and experts on how to get your book published

Lockdown offered many frustrated writers a key to unbolt the constraints of daily routine and an opportunity to work on the novel or work of nonfiction that has been gathering dust in their minds...

PornoXploitation: A book that shows the hidden side

PornoXploitation is a slap in the face of reality for those who believe that pornography is alien to their lives. It is also a wake-up call to inform and raise awareness about porn, a phenomenon...

Bridges to Nowhere: David Greber on Useful and Useless Work

Fragment of the book "Delusional work" What is "real" and "fake" labor? Is working as a clerk at a large investment bank much different from working in a clown's nose warehouse? The American anthropologist and...

Suspect in $200,000 Shelton comic book theft rejects plea deal

MILFORD — A Waterbury man charged with stealing $200,000 in rare comic books from a Shelton storage unit rejected a plea offer in the case that would have seen him sent to prison for...

When books become works of art in their own right

NEW YORK, Nov 23 — For Gagosian, books can be works of art like any other. That’s why the mega-gallery is launching a new imprint called Picture Books in December, publishing works of fiction...

Utah schools are pulling books. We should give students more credit, George Pyle writes

Goldie: “I can’t decide what to get my brother for his birthday.” Ruth: “A book is always nice.” Goldie: “Nah. He already has a book.” — “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” ca. 1968 My father would have made a...

The very best new books on interior design

This is the time of year I find myself rereading some of my favourite books filled with cosy fireside scenes, turning leaves and cold, wintry evenings. As the festive period takes hold, this kind...

Retired teacher creates children’s book to encourage shelter dog adoptions

A retired Brecksville teacher is putting his talents to use. He just released a children’s book highlighting how important it is to give shelter dogs homes. The series is called “The adventures of Jill, Jake, and...

The Wheel of Time TV Series Is Better, Worse, and Different Than the Books

Robert Jordan’s best-selling fantasy book series has traveled a weird road to get to TV. Now that the live-action adaptation of The Wheel of Time is here, the results are… well, weird. It’s a...

Unban books, let students read

Many fiction books have been banned in classrooms for decades, why? Which ones are worth reading? Books are an integral part of our society. They were the first form of communication and kept stories accurate...

‘The Illuminated’ book review: Many shades of grief

Express News Service Debut novels are exciting to read because they promise a new voice, a fresh cast of characters, and an adventurous ride into hitherto unknown fictional worlds. These qualities are prominently on display...

Pope Francis: Memories of the priest that baptised him

Vatican News presents excerpts from Pope Francis’ preface to the book “Ho fatto cristiano il Papa” (“I made the Pope a Christian”), the biography of Don Enrico Pozzoli, the Salesian missionary who baptised Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936 and followed his vocation up to the novitiate. The new book by Ferruccio Pallavera will be presented in various Italian cities over the next few days, with the first event taking place in Asti on 10 November at the city's seminary.
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