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Top Books to Read This Summer According to Georgetown Psychology Professors
Georgetown University - Washington D.C.
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June 5, 2025
For the past five years, the Department of Psychology has compiled an annual list of book recommendations by faculty members and graduate students for graduating seniors. Yulia Chentsova Dutton received the 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in...
Author talk: ‘How Birds Fly: The Science and Art of Avian Flight’
Journal of the San Juans - Washington State
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June 3, 2025
Submitted by Griffin Bay Bookstore. Griffin Bay Bookstore hosts Lopez Island author Peter Cavanagh featuring his beautiful new book, ‘How Birds Fly,’ on Sunday, June 8 at 2 p.m. in the bookstore café. Bird flight is a mesmerizing spectacle, yet...
Perpetual Books Makes A Home For ‘Unusual And Exceptional’ Books In Wicker Park
Block Club Chicago - Illinois
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June 5, 2025
WICKER PARK — Strange and unusual titles wind up alongside bestsellers at Perpetual Books, which opened last week in Wicker Park after its owners spent years buying and selling unique books. Perpetual Books opened Friday at 2136 W. Division St.,...
4th Estate snaps up rights to memoir and novel by Women Talking author Miriam Toews
The Bookseller
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Miriam Toews © Mark Boucher 4th Estate has acquired two new books by the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews Sign in or register below for free to unlock 2 articles each month and receive...
Problems With Ad Populum's First Payments To Comics Publishers
Bleeding Cool - Illinois
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June 5, 2025
Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: Ad Populum, diamond The first payments due to comic book stores from Diamond Comics purchaser Ad Populum seem not to have been made. What's going on? Ad Populum's first payments to comic publishers after...
It's Your Business | New TV show co-created by local filmmaker, partly shot in Champaign
The News Gazette - Illinois
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How did local filmmaker Luke Boyce end up co-creating a new show for a cable TV network? Simple: He reached out to the creators of one of his favorite comic books and asked if they'd be interested in working together. "We were going to do other...
Book Review: Two Suns by Alan and Sairung Wright
Independent Book Review
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June 5, 2025
Two Suns by Alan Wright and Sairung Wright Genre: Fantasy / Paranormal ISBN: 9798888247631 Print Length: 200 pages Publisher: Koehler Books Reviewed by Nick Gardner Sheriff Sol Jefferson loves his wife, Yaya, more than anything. In their quiet...
Author Bernardine Evaristo 'astonished' to receive one-off £100k prize
BBC
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June 4, 2025
Emma SaundersCulture reporter at the Hay Festival ShareSave Bernardine Evaristo pledged to put the prize money into a project to support other female writers Trailblazing author Bernardine Evaristo has said she is "astonished" to have been...
Bestselling author William Krueger to speak in Gilman June 27
The Star News - Wisconsin
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June 5, 2025
Area residents are invited to An Evening with William Kurt Krueger on Friday, June 27 at Celebration Hall in downtown Gilman from 6 to 9 p.m. The event will include a book signing and discussion. Krueger is a St. Paul based author who is well...
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Pretty Little Liars turns 15! Here's where Shay Mitchell, Lucy Hale, and more stars are now since leaving Rosewood
Entertainment Weekly
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Friends share updates. "That's what keeps us close." ABC Family (before it rebranded as Freeform) caught lightning in a bottle when it premiered Pretty Little Liars on June 8, 2010. The pulpy teen drama had viewers returning to the fictional town...
Television Q&A: Will Hollywood ever revive author's sleuth character?
GMToday - Wisconsin
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You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My favorite fictional sleuth, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee, has been poorly served by Hollywood and TV, with only two movies about him, and one moving him from Florida to California! Are there any...
The Basilica of St. Mary publishes a history book
Arlington Catholic Herald - Virginia
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It’s not every day that a parish turns 230 years old. As the Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria celebrates its milestone anniversary this year, parish historian Kitty Guy and archival manager Virginia Nyce released an updated book on the parish’s...
Minister of Information, Arab Writers Union discuss “publishing cooperation”
SANA
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June 5, 2025
Damascus, SANA- Minister of Information Dr. Hamza al-Mustafa discussed Thursday with the Head of the Arab Writers Union, Muhammad Taha Othman, establishing a joint mechanism that regulates publishing books and manuscripts within a free and...
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Amazon Editors Pick the 10 Best Books of 2025, so Far — Did Your Favorite Make the List?
People - New York
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NEED TO KNOW Amazon editors chose their top books of 2025, so far The genres represented range from thrillers to memoirs to releases from beloved authors See the editors' top 10 books below Amazon editors have sorted through their TBR piles to...
NCERT’s Textbook Crackdown: Over 5 Lakh Pirated Books Confiscated
Pragativadi
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June 5, 2025
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Police, has seized more than five lakh pirated textbooks and printing equipment worth Rs 20 crore over the last 14 months. This crackdown aims...
Author, CBS Falsely Equated THIS to Censorship Cartel
NewsBusters
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June 3, 2025
CBS News’s 60 Minutes platformed a famous author’s stunning claim that America’s political right is anti-free speech like the political left, but MRC has the evidence to prove heavy leftist censorship bias. Appearing on 60 Minutes Sunday, writer...
There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?
Literary Hub
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June 5, 2025
I’ve written so much about how there are too many books and not enough places to cover them, but I still have more to say. So this time I thought I’d go deeper and do a case study. Last year I wrote about the wonderful and terrible overstuffedness...
Amazon reveals best books of 2025 so far: See the Top 20
Marco Eagle - Florida
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Amazon Books Editors have once again emerged from the literary battlefield, crowning "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy the "Best Book of the Year So Far." Around the halfway point every year, the Amazon Books editorial team of eight gathers...
REVIEW: Stratford's Anne of Green Gables pairs puffed sleeves with pink combat boots
Stratford Today
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A new adaptation of the beloved novel honours the story's origins while expanding its world for a new generation If you were to close your eyes and imagine the ideal stage adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, would you want it to stay true to the...
'Blind Date with a Book' Parties Are the New Book Club—Here's How to Throw One
Better Homes & Gardens
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Most readers do their homework when it comes to choosing a new book—they read reviews, research the author, maybe even scan through a sample chapter. Now imagine you’ve been given a book to read that’s covered in wrapping, and it's one you know...