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But first things first, just exactly what is this book about anyway? warning, major spoilers from this point on. The Nickel Boys Summary Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys is the story of Elwood Curtis, a young Black activist from Tallahassee, Florida. Set during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Elwood is arrested on his way to attend his first day of college. He is then sentenced to Nickel Academy, a reformatory school where the accused receive “physical, intellectual, and moral training,” and are “restored to the community with purpose and character fitting for a good citizen....

What is a reader? A reader is someone who reads. Full stop, no condescending parameters allowed. Hearing a story read by someone else, reading long novels, taking in small paragraphs at a time, choosing books with more pictures than words — all of these a reader makes. Many people have an image of a reader as a person wearing glasses, hunched over a book with three more piled next to them, the titles of “classics” floating around their heads — but it is 2021....

While many readers recognize the perks of independent reading, parents, and caregivers are also tasked with helping young readers learn to access those benefits for themselves. These skills are vital in allowing a child to become a confident, independent reader. Parents and caregivers can help lay the foundation for success in these areas by reading aloud to children. 2. Phonics — the ability to connect the letters of written language with the sounds of spoken language 3....

Tim O’Brien wrote The Things They Carried to answer the silence and the ignorance O’Brien encountered when he returned to his Minnesota hometown after serving in Vietnam as a Marine in Alpha Company. The Things They Carried is a collection of eleven short stories; told in a transcendent and understated manner, O’Brien relays the truth, beauty, and horror that is war. The Things They Carried will be read as long as people can read....

Dig into birthday, holiday, life event, and even a host of blank literary greeting card options to meet your every need. Your Ultimate Guide to Literary Greeting Cards Literary Birthday Cards A shelf full of Happy Birthday. $5. “To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still,” reads this Shakespeare quote birthday card. $5. Indeed, a birthday for the books!...

Judges will select nominees using the following criteria: (1) school/organization serves disadvantaged children, (2) school/organization has clearly defined mission and values, and (3) school/ organization demonstrates a need for youth educational resources. The submission period runs October 8 – December 15, 2018 and winning organizations will be announced on January 14, 2019. You can read more about the giveaway and nominate your favorite organization at www.theupsstore.com/bookgiveaway or donate to the program year-round at www....

The “news report” was actually The Mercury Theatre on the Air’s infamous broadcast of H.G. Wells’s 40-year-old sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds, narrated by Orson Welles. My grandmother and her neighbors realized it was fiction before they started evacuating. Still, it’s easy to imagine how they heard the broadcast out of context and consequently panicked. They weren’t the only people who thought the broadcast might have been real....

Celebrity comics have existed basically as long as comics in general have, it turns out. As early as 1898, there was Dan Leno’s Comic Journal, a black-and-white periodical about the British music hall star Dan Leno, who also wrote much of it. Subsequent decades brought countless others, from Charlie Chaplin’s Comic Capers, a newspaper strip that ran in the 1910s and was for a time drawn by the creator of Popeye, to the currently-running Bettie Page, a monthly series from Dynamite where the late pinup model apparently fights aliens (?...

This year, the five finalists were: Marrickville Library (Australia) Deichman Bjørvika – Oslo Public Library (Norway) Het Predikheren (Belgium) Ningbo New Library (China) Forum Groningen (The Netherlands) On August 19th, at the IFLA World Library and International Congress, the winner was announced as… Deichman Bjørvika in Oslo! Jury chair Jakob Lærkes explained, The technological solutions referenced include an advanced book sorting machine, freeing up more staff to work with patrons directly....

“While novels are supposed to bring wisdom and wonder, there are a few books in the world so cursed that one page-flip will leave you with years of bad luck and misfortune. From cursed Japanese poetry and witch’s spellbooks to a deadly novel that kills anybody who dares to edit its pages, the world of literature has a dark side that you couldn’t even imagine. Read on for our top five most cursed books to read at your own risk....

In the 1650s, London bookbinders Stephen and Thomas Lewis, added fore-edge paintings to their books. By painting the edge while they were angled, customers could see the paintings when the book was fanned out and see only the gilded edges when the books were closed. John Ansley, a researcher on the subject of fore-edge paintings, explains the two theories as to the origin of the technique. Either the paintings started as a way to help identify books that were placed horizontally in libraries with the pages out, similar to the interior design trend on HGTV, or they started as a way for bookbinders to show off and glam up every part of their product....

On a hot, dry day in early January, the East Coast loses power for good. There is a ferocious pack of killers on the loose; no one is safe and anyone could be the next victim. Where are they coming from and what do they want? They killed all of the pets first. In a surprising twist, it turns out everyone is a killer when you’re fighting for the last few drops of water....

Okay, backstory time: Lian’s mother is the villain Cheshire, who once nuked the Middle Eastern country of Qurac. Chanda’s family is from Qurac, and they all died in the attack. When Lian confesses Cheshire is her mother, Chanda takes it, uh, bad. While Chanda’s surprise and upset is understandable, she proceeds to yell about the murders in front of an already-distressed Lian and then leave Titans Tower with Lian to go back to her apartment....

According to the Radio Times, Baker came up with the idea on set and worked on it with onscreen companion Harry Sullivan, played by Ian Marter, later writing it up as a script. In true Doctor Who fashion, while trying to fund the story, Baker accidentally appealed to the public in the newspaper and received money from British children. He later returned it. Here is a synopsis: “The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the appearance of strange creatures – hideous scarecrows, who are preying on the local population....

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Behold! A list! The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty (June 11) This third and final entry into the Daevabad Trilogy is a truly epic conclusion to a singular journey across time and space, and if I were going to Eternal Sunshine one book series from my mind so that I could experience it again for the first time, it would be this one. One of my favorite things about Chakraborty’s writing is how textural it is: her descriptions of surfaces and fabrics, different bodies of water, people’s muscles and skin and hair, the feel of a zulfiqar versus an iron dagger in one’s hand…it gives what is other such a firm grounding you can’t help but wonder if, perhaps, there isn’t at least some reality to the myth....

From New York Times bestselling author Mindy Kaling comes “Nothing Like I Imagined,” a new collection of six hilarious and personal essays. Mindy gives the inside scoop on her new role as a single mom, the perks of being her own husband, and how she deals with social anxiety even at the most glamorous A-list parties. In between, the beloved actor, writer, producer and Hollywood power-bruncher gets Kanye West’d at her best friend’s birthday, thwarts an “only in LA” crime, and learns what it means to have it all....

For me, online book festivals made a bad situation so much more manageable. I was working from home and missing my friends and family; digital book festivals gave me something to look forward to at weekends or in the evenings, and gave me the feeling of being away from the same four walls, day in, day out. At the same time, I was finally starting to manage my chronic illnesses – where in-person book festivals wore me out (if I didn’t skip them completely), digital book festivals were much more manageable and accessible....

Fifteen years later, our lives have completely changed—we’ve lost some family members and added others—and none of us live in the same state anymore. But around July 4th, I still get the itch to travel back to the mountains and spend the holiday with my family. Thanks to COVID-19, this year is different, and my heart aches that I can’t go home to surround myself with nature, recharge my batteries, and chat with my family as we sit on the back porch basking in the Ohio River Valley’s humid summer air....

“Have you ever read Lolita?” This is a breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story in the wake of a deeply abusive relationship. Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise, calls it “powerful” and Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life, says “In the era of #MeToo, Wood’s voice will change things for the better." Start reading Being Lolita by Alisson Wood now....