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Benefits of reading books: Why you should read every day
ARTICLE by Thomas J Law What Are the Benefits of Reading Books? Here are 10 benefits of reading that illustrate the importance of reading books. When you read every day you:…
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Schools nationwide are quietly removing books from their libraries
Hull looks for books for her students at a public library in Lancaster County, Pa. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Kyle GranthamKyle Grantham LANCASTER, Pa. - Samantha…
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Take a Book, Share a Book
Little Free Libraries have been offering complimentary books in Rhode Island for years. Now more than 100 charming wooden boxes are propped up on posts or fences outside local homes,…
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‘Freedom Libraries’ aim to transform prisons, 500 books at a time
USA: he libraries are meant to provide beauty, access to literature and cultivate a community space in prisons nationwide. “All of these books carry a kind of history with them,”…
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If you will it, it is no book dream – review
Susan Shapiro believes you are never too old to publish. I am living proof. After decades dreaming of being a writer, I read The Byline Bible, took her online class…
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March 13th: The Birthday of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard
As reported on the official Scientology news site, Hubbard once remarked that there are only two tests of a life well-lived: “Did he do what he intended?” and “Were people glad…
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Mississippi: Assistant principal fired over book choice
ByThe Associated Press - March 12, 2022, 9:51 PM JACKSON, Miss. -- An assistant principal in a Mississippi school district has been fired after he read a children's book to…
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The religious intolerance and the prudent hand of the secular state (2)
From the book "Atheistic Delusions" by David B. Hart It is even more significant that some of the great early theorists of modern science and the scientific method believed in…
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Santa Barbara Company ABC-CLIO Bought by U.K. Publisher
In a December deal which received little local attention, longtime Santa Barbara book and database publisher ABC-CLIO was acquired by London-based Bloomsbury Publishing. The $22.4M sale ended the family-owned company’s…
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The roadblock I kept running into when I was trying to find books for my Black children
I was a child bookworm. When I was a young girl, my parents read to me religiously, and after learning to read myself, if I wasn't playing sports, I almost…