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Oct 29 2019: A year after the death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol’s family are at odds.
The dispute appears to hinge on the matter of trademarks.
Bol, who set up the first book box in front of his mother’s Wisconsin ...
Oct 24 2019: The American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a written report to the House Judiciary Committee telling lawmakers that “unfair behavior by digital market actors," including Amazon and some major publishers, is "doing concrete harm to libraries.”
The report, ...
Oct 16 2019: King County (WA) Library System, the nation's top digital-circulating library has said it will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once the publishers' two-month embargo begins next month.
In her note, executive director Lisa Rosenblum said King County’s ...
Oct 14 2019: By any measure in publishing, cartoonist Dav Pilkey is a rock star. The children’s author created his characters Captain Underpants (a superhero for grade-schoolers) and Dog Man (a hound-supercop) while an Ohio second-grader, sitting alone in the hall during class as a ...
Oct 14 2019: The judges of this year’s Booker prize have “explicitly flouted” the rules of the august literary award to choose the first joint winners in almost 30 years: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.
The chair of judges, Peter Florence, emerged after more than five ...
Oct 14 2019: Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal The Anxiety of Influence and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.
Oct 12 2019: In response to Jennine Capó Crucet’s talk on the Statesboro, Ga., campus Wednesday, where she focused her discussion on white privilege, students gathered at a grill and torched her novel "Make Your Home Among Strangers” — about a first-generation Cuban American woman ...
Oct 11 2019: Yesterday, The Nobel committee announced the winners of both the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 2018 prize having been canceled last year due to controversy. Over to Ron Charles at The Washington Post to explain:
...Two years ago, the husband of one of...
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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It is always darkest just before the day dawneth
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