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The Best Dinosaur Books for Kids Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman This fun, silly book gives an alternate (and delightfully inaccurate) reason for the dinosaurs going extinct. More Flintstones than factual, it tells the story of dinosaurs stealing newly invented underpants from Neanderthals, with colourful illustrations and lots of laughs for small readers. Dinosaur Valley by Mitsuhiro Kurokawa If your kid is a budding palaeontologist, they’ll love flicking through the beautiful illustrations and diagrams that make up Dinosaur Valley....

Whether your teenager has never made anything more complex than toast or they’re already a fairly decent cook, there are plenty of cookbooks for teens out there that will teach them the basics or help them step up their chef game. With books for inexperienced cooks, recipe books that focus on vegan and vegetarian cooking, introductions to different cuisines from around the world, and beginner-friendly guides to baking and desserts, these books will help your teens learn their way around the kitchen and become a great young chef....

Growing up, I was always told that the stock market was volatile. This made sense. I grew up amidst the Great Recession and saw the world around me struggling to make ends meet. After all, wasn’t it greedy bankers and investors who made the Great Recession possible in the first place? Why would I want anything to do with a system they treat as their own casino? Honestly? While Wall Street seems like an evil place and has been responsible for amoral financial practices for decades, it is a key avenue for millions to build generational wealth, stay ahead of inflation, and achieve financial freedom....

Whatever books you pick up this fall, you’re sure to enjoy sharing the season with your little reader! For more fall reading be sure to check out 20 Halloween Books for Preschoolers.

Read the first novel in Robert Jordan’s internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®. Now an original Prime Video series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! Since debuting in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in the series were instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read....

What are short memoirs? What exactly are short memoirs? I define them as essay-length works that weave together life experiences around a central theme. You see examples of short memoirs all the time on sites like Buzzfeed and The New York Times. Others are stand-alone pieces published in essay collections. Memoir essays were my gateway into reading full-length memoirs. It was not until I took a college class on creative nonfiction that I realized memoirs were not just autobiographies of people with exciting lives....

This year, Congress has also included a provision to the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act that allows individuals who don’t itemize deductions on their taxes to still deduct $300 of qualified charitable contributions as an “above-the-line” deduction, starting in the 2020 tax year. This allows you to more easily get a deduction by donating to charity during the 2020 holiday season. One option for your holiday donations, as bookworms?...

Best Romance Manhwa Heesu in Class 2 by Lily Heesu has a crush on his best friend, Chanyoung, but knows that nothing is going to happen. He doesn’t mind hearing his friend’s girl problems or cheering him on. But then one day, Heesu hears that there is a rumor about him! “Got a love problem? Find Heesu from Class 2 and he’ll tell you what to do!” He’s about to become the center of attention for the first time in his life....

Bill Clegg returns with a deeply moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness. These books reject the idea of the token gay person for each friendship group. Instead, they celebrate queer community in all its forms: bi & lesbian best friends, all-queer friend groups, trans community, and more....

So when I went to Mexico City from Chicago, I read Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros; when I went to England, I read Jane Austen. And when I went to Spain, I dug deep into lists of Spanish authors, of books to read before, during, and after my trip that were written by Spanish authors and were set in Spain. I included books written in Catalan and Galician, as they are important national identities of regions that have also pushed for independence....

From the very first page, The Princess Bride provides us with an intriguing opening line: “This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” Though The Princess Bride is known for its laugh-out-loud hilarity, it does have its profound moments: “Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.” “I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you’re in it, you think it’ll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think....

2020 New Books In Translation Looking for even more great new books in translation? Check out 7 of the Best Summer 2020 Books by Women in Translation and the books chosen for the Translated Literature category as part of the 2020 National Book Awards Longlists. And don’t miss Girls Lost by Jessica Schiefauer, translated by Saskia Vogel. And don’t miss On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney and Echo on the Bay by Masatsugu Ono, translated by Angus Turvill....

Since 2020, more production companies have moved to a hybrid model of release. For some movies, limited theatrical release means more bookworms will get to see their favorite characters on the big screen. Then, enjoy the same movie again in the comfort of your own home with jammies and unlimited snacks a few weeks later. Technology is amazing. Editor’s note: There are not as many adaptations of books written by authors of color coming out as we would hope for....

Healing is not a linear process. We all need help. It comes in the form of kind smiles, insightful books, therapy and quiet signs from the universe. It comes in the form of people, the physical presence of someone who cares, and the wonders of human civilization. It comes in the form of nature, the wind that gushes to your teary face and videos of penguins tripping in ice miles away....

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario In del Rosario’s debut young adult novel, high school senior Nic takes on the much-dreaded task of writing college admission essays. Observant and looking to redefine herself after becoming involved in another sort of cheating scandal, Nic deals with sexism, double standards, and the usual pressures of senior year. And while she plays at pretending to be others, Nic loses more and more of herself as the semester marches on....

I reserve no judgment for people who love romances with paranormal shifters, sports teams, or motorcycle clubs; I encourage you to read what you like. Take these books as recommendations in sub-genres you already enjoy! And then have some more sports romance and shifter romance recommendations on the house! For everyone else who, like me, has some skepticism when it comes to certain romance sub-genres, here are three spectacular books that defied my expectations....

In this new rom-com from Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert, All the Feels), Maria’s one-night-stand — the thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a word or a note — just reappeared. Apparently, Peter’s her surly Gods of the Gates co-star, and they’re about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants him…but he now wants nothing to do with her....

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, noblewoman of one of the finest houses in Lancashire, is pregnant for the fourth time, having been unable to carry a baby to term so far. When Fleetwood finds a hidden letter from the doctor who delivered her last stillbirth, she learns of the prediction that she will not survive another pregnancy. By chance she meets a midwife who promises to help Fleetwood deliver a healthy baby and prove the physician wrong....

Bill Clegg returns with a deeply moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness. Middle grade fiction details the emotion and adventure children experience when navigating friendships. These stories capture the challenges and innocence tweens live through when meeting people. While their personal journeys are not as explicit as connections in the young adult category, they are equally valuable....

Here, I’m compiling some of my favorite Harry Potter tattoos, whether for concept, design, creativity, or authenticity. By the time you look at all of these, you’ll have more tattoos than Sirius Black (in the movies)—maybe even a few OF Sirius Black… and when it comes to consistency with the text, where better to start than with the Dark Mark? The Dark Mark Tattoos Wizarding World fans likely already know this, but the Dark Mark was the forearm tattoo that Voldemort (YEAH....