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A New Look Inside the Latest Thrawn Book Reintroduces a Very Familiar Chiss

Timothy Zahn’s two Thrawn trilogies have done a lot to casually re-integrate elements of his highly influential work in the Expanded Universe back into Star Wars’ contemporary canon, especially when it comes to the...

Under what pretext do people resort to magic practitioners?

From the book of Metropolitan Hierotheus (Vlahos), "Spiritual landmarks for modern society": People who resort to spells and wizards point out as a pretext that they do so because they have special reasons. In fact,...

Open Book Club presents poet/naturalist Marc Beaudin

Livingston poet Marc Beaudin will read from and discuss his new collection, "Life List: Poems" on Saturday, Oct. 16 at the West Wing of the Seeley Lake Community Foundation. The free event begins at...

Woke posturing by Sally Rooney on Israeli publisher ban

Will Sally Rooney ban the  Mandarin version of her new book because of Uighur concentration camps in China? She needs to think through what she is doing in banning an Israeli publisher from translating her...

New Study: Against Ageism and towards active social citizenship for older persons

Professor Gerald Quinn, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, together with Professor Israel Doron have conducted a study (publ. Department of the European Social Charter Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of...

Brevard Public Schools removes book with sexually explicit art from high school library

Show Caption Hide Caption NI90: Brevard schools mask battle, county incentives and vaccination rates FLORIDA TODAY's Rob Landers brings you some of today's top stories on the News in 90 Seconds for Oct. 8 Rob Landers, Florida Today Support...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a comic book education!

A kid can learn a lot about life from reading comic books. To this day, I avoid gamma rays and radioactive spiders. I know full well that the first would transform me into an angry,...

Used book room sale

Used book room sale

Melinda French Gates Launches Women-Focused Book Imprint

Melinda French Gates Launches Women-Focused Book Imprint

Kizzia’s new book ‘Cold Mountain Path’ explores ghost town era of McCarthy

Kizzia’s new book ‘Cold Mountain Path’ explores ghost town era of McCarthy

UWL anthropology professor discusses new book about buying food on credit in the Dominican Republic

UWL anthropology professor discusses new book about buying food on credit in the Dominican Republic

Celebrating Banned Books Week

Celebrating Banned Books Week

New book tells story of incredible courage shown by two Dutch Jewish sisters during World War II

New book tells story of incredible courage shown by two Dutch Jewish sisters during World War II

What do Hitler and Stalin have in common? Answers from historian Lawrence Reese (EXCERPT)

The eminent historian makes a large-scale and astonishingly detailed writing of two regimes that have left a dark mark on human history. Lawrence Rees compares the two most feared tyrants of the twentieth century in...

Superhero-Scientists: The Most Interesting Comics About Science

Today comics are studied at universities, dissertations are defended in the form of comics, they are used as teaching material in school lessons. We will tell you what scientific comics are and whether such...

Thought Leadership and Media Insights from a CEO

During the past month, Peter Mousaferiadis, a self-described cultural entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Cultural Infusion, has been sought after for his thought leadership and opinions in worldwide media. On August 22 2021, he...

Volunteers needed to sort through thousands of books for SAISD program

SAN ANTONIO – Each year, the SAISD Foundation’s Book Buddies program provides tens of thousands of children’s books to students across the district’s schools. This year’s goal is to provide 23,000 students with four...

Italy worships Dante on the day of his death

Celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the poet's death (1265-1321) began in Italy in March. Italy worships today Dante, who died on the night of September 13-14, 700 years ago, AFP reported. The celebrations of...

Scientists have named books that improve brain function and quality of life

A recent study has shown that it is classic literature, not motivational psychology books, that can improve brain efficiency and quality of life. Scientists advise people suffering from depression, chronic diseases and even dementia to...

Book World: Phoebe Robinson’s new essay collection is a sharp,…

Book World: Phoebe Robinson's new essay collection is a sharp,...

16 Key Comic Books About Louisiana People And Places

16 Key Comic Books About Louisiana People And Places

Hotchner’s last novel returns to real-life inspiration – Book reviews

"Kissing the Wind" A novel by A.E. Hotchner Published by Anchor Books, 192 pages, $17 (paperback) By Dale Singer Special to the Post-Dispatch A.E. Hotchner is best known for “Papa Hemingway,” his bestseller about the quintessential American …

Greenfield author to hold signing in advance of book launch

Greenfield author to hold signing in advance of book launch

Bilingual Iowa author reads books to Siouxland elementary students

Bilingual Iowa author reads books to Siouxland elementary students

From the Publisher: Stopping the Spread

From the Publisher: Stopping the Spread
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