SPENCERTOWN — The 17th annual Spencertown Academy Arts Center Book Festival takes place over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-5. The Festival features a giant used book sale, two days of talks and readings with esteemed authors and a children’s program. Featured authors include Daphne Palasi Andreades, Jean Hanff Korelitz, David …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The California Department of Education’s Recommended Reading List promotes books for kindergarteners on student transition and for high schoolers on students kneeling during the national anthem. The recommended reading list is housed in the “teaching and instructional resources” section of the California …
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Once Republicans started falsely accusing educators and librarians of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, it was only a matter of time before there was talk of jailing them. Sure enough, in a clip collected by Tennessee Holler, a newly elected district attorney in Hamilton County, Tennessee, did just that during …
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I don’t know about you, but I love seeing businesses apply online trends to their brand. Especially when it’s a place that could use a little extra love, like a library. The Meigs County District Public Library in Ohio recently adopted the “It’s 10 years old, but…” trend and applied …
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New Jersey, United States – Verified Market Research recently released a new report titled Interactive children’s book market Overviews, Size, Forecast to 2028. The report is prepared using primary as well as secondary research methodologies that provide precise and concise understanding of the Interactive Children’s Books market. Analysts have used …
Read More »Boulevard sets aside $70 million to help beauty and wellness salons with bookings – TechCrunch
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting your hair appointment or other treatment… that’s another story: the bespoke nature of much of the work has meant that a large proportion of the professionals providing these services have remained offline when it comes …
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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corporation plans to begin building books on Friday, which could raise up to $2.74 billion (HK$21.37 billion) and would be the company’s biggest stock sale. city in 2022, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The news came as Alibaba (9988) …
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We’ve had e-books, audiobooks and of course good old-fashioned printed books – but could there soon be another way to read? The so-called “augmented reality books” – dubbed “a-books” by their creators – are one step closer to mass production after a six-year project by researchers at the University of …
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MMachine learning systems have for years outperformed their human counterparts in everything from Go to Jeopardy! drug discovery and cancer detection. With all the advancements being made in the field, it’s not uncommon for people to be wary of the robots that will replace them in tomorrow’s workforce. These concerns …
Read More »Proving Ground Review: The Women Who Made America’s Computing Great | Books
In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This “request for help” ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: “Looking for Women Math Majors.” The ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen McNulty was …
Read More »Attempts to ban the books are an attack on constitutional rights
Now that’s enough ! I’m sick of ideologues trying to tell me what I can read, say or think. They try to make their morals and standards everyone’s morals and standards. That’s not how America works. Our Constitution gives us freedom of speech and that means we can say, read …
Read More »Volusia school board candidates tackle teacher shortages and banned books
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Read More »Natrona County Public Library to Hold Special Sale of ‘Star-Trek’ Books, Comics and More | caspar
Do you speak Klingon? Stay up at night trying to choose your favorite Federation ship? Or maybe you just think space is cool? Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Friends of the Natrona County Public Library will be selling an assortment of “Star Trek” collectibles in the library’s …
Read More »Children have fun with books and bikes at a community event
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WASHINGTON — The director of publishing titan Penguin Random House on Thursday defended his company’s deal to acquire rival Simon & Schuster against the government’s claim that it would stifle competition. But he acknowledged that the merger would strengthen his company’s position as the largest US publisher by expanding its …
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Forty books have been shortlisted for the 2022 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards, the competition that recognizes the best books by Hoosiers. Indiana Humanities, which runs the competition with support from Glick Philanthropies, announced the list Thursday. The winners will be announced on August 24. The books, which …
Read More »Melia Frazier needs your help to collect 1,000 miscellaneous books
One Girl Scout is on a mission to diversify the books in local school libraries, and it has collected nearly 300 titles to date. Melia Frazier, 11, said her school had Harry Potter books and the American Girl series, but none of the books featured people who looked like her. …
Read More »Books in summer | The Dakotan
MINOT – While summer can be a great time to get out and enjoy the warm weather while it’s here, many Minot kids have enjoyed listening to and reading books on the warm days. The Minot Public Library wrapped up its final story hour for young children on Wednesday with …
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from burnt-book-but-for-lawyers department The confiscation of civilian assets has shown us that the government has a strange way of prosecuting. In rem confiscation cases allow government agencies to prosecute objects, rather than the people from whom they were seized. This leads to some very funny case names (even if the …
Read More »Bi-weekly two-day exams in Punjab, students still have no books : The Tribune India
Tribune press service Watts Architect Muktsar, August 2 The Ministry of Education has announced the schedule for bi-monthly exams for classes VI to XII in public schools in the state, but students are still waiting for some textbooks. Distribution in progress Some textbooks may not have …
Read More »Lit 50 2022: Who really delivers in Chicago
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Read More »Five beautiful books on friendship
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Read More »Author Patricia Nicol unveils a selection of the best books on: Strikes
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Special for the Arizona Daily Star Tucsonians with kids at home don’t need a calendar to know that the first day of school is only two weeks away. There are backpacks to buy, forms to fill out, carpools to organize. Are last year’s t-shirts still suitable? It’s an exciting time, …
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Read More »Middle and high school sex ed books banned as ‘age-inappropriate’ under new Florida law
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” A2Z Market Research has published a new research report on Global Recessed Photo Albums Market covering micro-level analysis by competitors and key business segments (2022-2027). The Global Recessed Photo Albums Market report explores in-depth study on various segments such as opportunities, size, development, innovation, sales and overall growth of …
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A new book by former first lady Michelle Obama will offer readers “fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge and power,” according to its publisher. The Light We Carry, which will be published in November, is Obama’s second book, following his best-selling memoir Becoming, which appeared in November 2018. …
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Six “bold and original new voices” have been shortlisted for the first Waterstones Fiction Prize. The list, voted on by Waterstones booksellers, includes Sequoia Nagamatsu’s “extraordinary” sci-fi novel How High We Go in the Dark, Eloghosa Osunde’s “bold and beautiful blend of folklore and realism”, Vagabonds !, and Tara M …
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Read More »10 Best Hercules Comics Of All Time
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Sarah ChaneyProfile, £16.99, pp370 Chaney’s compelling and highly readable debut dives into the story of normalcy. It wasn’t until 200 years ago that the word “normal” was even applied to humans: before that, it was a purely mathematical term. But 19th century scientific developments and the growing popularity of statistics …
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The rush to buy books documenting Marcos’ destructive 21-year reign comes as his son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., takes office after a landslide election victory in May. Marcos Jr. has never publicly acknowledged or apologized for the human rights abuses, corruption and theft that historians say took place under his …
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This TOP 10 has THOR: LOVE & THUNDER heat this week. But don’t worry, we’re not here to spoil! Some less than eight billion geniuses appear this week, muscled by dark knights. Dr. Doom makes an impromptu appearance with the magnetism master. High-profile new character Tosin retains a spot among …
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These Bengaluru-based children’s book illustrators, Priya Kuriyan and Rajiv Eipe, populate their pages with character and spirit. These Bengaluru-based children’s book illustrators, Priya Kuriyan and Rajiv Eipe, populate their pages with character and spirit. In India, where the children’s book market is dominated by global bestselling authors, countless mythological tales …
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My friend Andy Ward, who died of lymphoma at the age of 72, was an atypical author who published nearly 30 sports books as well as books on higher education, including What’s the point of a degree? (2002). He then became a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. Andy was …
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Lucky by Linda Williams Jackson; Candlewick Press, 320 pages ($18.99). 8 to 12 years old. Linda Williams Jackson, author of ‘Midnight Without a Moon’ and the sequel ‘A Sky Full of Stars’, offers an engaging portrait of a boy who dreams of becoming a lawyer or a teacher to lift …
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Kozhikode: Mathrubhumi Books will publish two books commemorating the birthday of beloved Malayalam writer MT Vasudevan Nair. ‘Rangam’, the script written by MT and ‘MT: Mathrubhumikaalam’ by M Jayaraj. The book ‘MT: Mathrubhumikaalam’ chronicles the period when MT Vasudevan Nair served as editor of Mathrubhumi Weekly. In the book, one …
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Romantic tropes have something so endearing about them that you can’t help but get hooked. But there’s something very special about the fake dating trope that makes people want it even more: two people making a deal to act enchanted with each other for what they think is a short …
Read More »San Antonio’s Most Popular Books of June 2022
There is nothing better than a good book. They are a chance to escape, an entry into another world or a trip to the past. The San Antonians are like any other readers. Sometimes they read for fun, other times they want to see themselves in the stories. Either way, …
Read More »Best-selling books this week
“Where the Crawdads Sing” continues to hold the No. 1 spot on USA TODAY’s best-selling books list this week as the film adaptation, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and David Strathairn, debuts in theaters. The novel has spent more than 200 weeks on the list since its release in 2018. But a …
Read More »Loveforce International announces that more of its paperbacks are being sold by Walmart
Santa Clarita, Calif., July 14, 2022 — (PR.com) — On September 24, 2021, Loveforce International announced that one of the paperbacks they publish, the Spanish edition of Slices of Life by Mark Wilkins, was carried by Walmart. On January 5, 2022, Loveforce International announced that a second of its paperbacks, …
Read More »The Most Popular Books in the Scarsdale Library
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Read More »Newsom says ‘education is under attack’ over book bans and speech suppression
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said Wednesday that ‘education is under attack’, criticizing book bans across the country, efforts to suppress speech and ‘the otherness of our students, teachers , parents”. “I believe education is under attack in a way that I have never experienced in my life. I really …
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Source: Amazon The Kindle Oasis has been discounted at Amazon by a hefty $75, bringing it down to its low “Amazon Prime Day Product Discount” price of $175 at Amazon. While that makes it cheaper than the regular price, it’s still about $50 more expensive than the next Kindle on …
Read More »Warsaw ghetto archaeologists find children’s shoes and books
Archaeological digs in the former Warsaw ghetto – on a site where underground Jewish resistance was based – have unearthed items including children’s shoes and pages from books in Hebrew and Polish. The excavations, which began in early June and are expected to continue until the end of July, are …
Read More »36 best Amazon Prime books on sale for Prime Day 2022
While binge-watching can be cool, nothing beats reading – and the range of Amazon Prime books on sale for Prime Day 2022 helps us make that point. Because there are some amazing books (and book deals) to be had, whether you’re looking for a new read or want to read …
Read More »Tallahassee Chapter of The Links Donates Books to Head Start Program
The Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated is proud to help close the literacy gap in the community by donating over 150 books to the Head Start program at the Region Community Action Agency. capital city. This service project was part of a nationwide £7,500 challenge to support The Links, …
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With over 500 million copies sold worldwide, the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling had a great impact on our generation. Giving way to fantastic books for children, teenagers and adults from all over the world, Harry Potter boasts of being the OG of them all. With their growing popularity …
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This year’s American Press Athletes are Emma Freeman of St. Louis Catholic, left, and John Vinson of Westlake. Freeman, a track and field athlete, will continue her education and athletic career at Ole Miss. Vinson, who played football for the Rams, started early at McNeese State University, where he will …
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As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section – SunLit – we feature staff picks at bookstores statewide. >> Click here for more SunLit Jthe bookstore of his week: Out West Books, 533 Main Street, Grand Junction outwestbooks.co | @outwestbooks on Twitterinstagram Downstream: Towards the Western Water Future By Heather …
Read More »Books remain at the same price despite rising costs
CINCINNATI — It’s been hard to find something that hasn’t gone up in price over the past few months. But there are some items that haven’t gone up and one of them is favorite summer activity books. Local booksellers hope this will encourage more people to come and buy them …
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“],”renderIntial”:true,”wordCount”:350}”> One rainy autumn morning in 2005, Donald Lawson received a phone call from his sailing hero, Bruce Schwab, asking if he would be willing to drop everything and join him on a trip to the East Coast. Lawson, then 23, had honed his sailing skills for more than a …
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Published on July 8, 2022 at 12:12 p.m. Bianca Morales TucsonSentinel.com Byrd Baylor fans — children and adults alike — can celebrate the late author’s works of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert at the “Monsoon Literacy Celebration” at the Fox Theater on Sunday. The free event, from 2 p.m. to …
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As someone who spends a huge amount of time and money in bookstores, I was incredibly excited when I heard that Tsutaya Books was coming to Malaysia. I had been to their flagship store at the Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo and was completely blown away by how they had effectively …
Read More »Best Baby Memory Books | News 4 Buffalo
Which baby memory book is the best? New parents always hear how fast time flies and how fast their child is growing. However, it doesn’t exactly hit them until their child suddenly goes to high school or even moves out for college. Getting a quality baby memory book is a …
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Leslie Dickson always knew she would be a teacher. It was in the family: his father was a teacher, then principal, then assistant superintendent. It was inevitable that she would follow in his footsteps. “I remember in kindergarten lining up all my stuff and teaching them,” Dickson, 60, said. That …
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Ben Aaronovitch’s hit fantasy series Rivers of London is set to be adapted for television. A new partnership will bring all nine novels, along with their accompanying short stories, novels and graphic novels, together for the screen. Rivers of London is part urban fantasy, police procedural, centered on detective Peter …
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Former Mayor Bill de Blasio used accounting tricks to hide nearly $225 million he poured into the city’s expensive ferry system – and forced taxpayers to shell out as much as $14.57 for each ride while extremely wealthy passengers paid only $2.75 each. These are the main conclusions of a …
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When Adam Exler, the bookseller who created the Collectible Science Fiction Instagram account, first joined the service, his profile picture was a 1973 David Pelham cover for science fiction master Philip K. Dick is Palmer Eldritch’s Three Stigmata. It is a hauntingly evocative work with a surreal image of two …
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The rankings reflect sales for the week ended June 25, which were reported confidentially by vendors with a wide range of mainstream titles. Picture book rankings include sales of hardcover books only. Series rankings include all print and e-book sales. Each week, thousands of diverse outlets report their actual sales …
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BY DARCIE CASWELL CRRL YOUTH SERVICES COORDINATOR The theme of this year’s summer reading program at Central Rappahannock Regional Library is “Off the Beaten Path”, encouraging readers to delve into a subject or genre new to them, to learn more about the people who have been creative thinkers or exploring …
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Jason Greenblatt was formerly legal counsel for the Trump Organization. After the 2016 elections, he became Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations. Along with Jared Kushner, he aimed to secure peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Like its predecessors, the Trump administration has failed in this task. This cold …
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Ahead of the draft, Timberwolves president Tim Connelly spoke to the media and talked about what he learned from watching this year’s playoffs. The first sentence he uttered on the subject was, “It’s going to be really hard to get to that level where we think we can get to.” …
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5 essential books by James Patterson Jul 02, 2022, 11:51 a.m. 2 minute read These books by James Patterson are a must read if you like mystery and thriller. James Patterson is an American author well known for his thrillers and suspense novels. He has also written various non-fiction, science …
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From a distance it looks like any old yardage book – white leather with embossed black text on the cover. But look closer and you will realize that it has a much deeper meaning. There are decorative lines in the colors of the Progress Pride flag on the front, representing …
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It’s never a bad idea to start your exam preparations early. As the 2022-23 academic session has begun, you can opt for great CBSE and ICSE books for class 10 which are available with question banks, test simulations and more. These books will help you plan your studies systematically and …
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From the unprecedented speed at which COVID-19 vaccines were developed, to the biggest fraud case in biotech history, to a sci-fi story set in a post-apocalyptic city, here are seven books of biotechnology to consult this summer. With record-breaking heat waves heralding the start of summer, there’s never been a …
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Several parents have taken to Twitter to criticize the city’s private schools for insisting they buy books, uniforms and other things from the school itself and charge “excess” fees. Voice of Parents Karnataka (VOPK) demanded that the government intervene and stop harassment by schools. As explained by several parents who …
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June 28, 2022 @booksandpublishing A new report from Austrian publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart has analyzed recent trends in e-book sales in markets including Brazil, Italy, Spain, German-speaking countries and Latin America. Data from the Digital Consumer Book Barometer report shows an increase in the availability and use of streaming and …
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Design by Yoora Kim Literature that focuses on LGBTQ+ people and the LGBTQ+ experience is so crucial. Presenting stories in the YA category that accurately portray the struggles and joy of homosexuality empowers LGBTQ+ youth to feel seen and feel empowered in their identity. It’s important to include the queer …
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Summer is the perfect time to read by the pool or on the commuter train to work. You never know what exciting thriller or sweet romance is waiting to become your new favorite book! Don’t miss these adult and young adult releases in July 2022, and keep in mind that …
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On My Shelf helps you get to know diverse writers through a behind-the-scenes look into their lives as readers. I asked Thaddeus Williams, associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Biola and author of Confronting Injustice Without Compromising the Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice—about …
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A Leicestershire author is relaunching his best-selling crime novel series, after a production company secured the rights to adapt them for TV. Mark Wright, whose author name is MP Wright, is relaunching his highly acclaimed “Windrush Noir Detective Series” with brand new editions and a striking cover art by London-based …
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It’s no secret that the world of book publishing involves a lot of discrimination. A New York Times analysis found that only 11% of fiction published in 2018 was written by people of color; in June 2020, a viral Twitter hashtag called #PublishingPaidMe revealed that many well-known black authors had …
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Former Church of England parish priest, broadcaster and best-selling author Reverend Richard Coles visited an independent bookshop in Abingdon to celebrate his new murder mystery book. Reverend Coles visited Mostly Books, an independent bookshop in Abingdon, on Saturday to sign copies of his new book Murder Before Evensong. What a …
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At Gettysburg College, our faculty and staff are endlessly curious and passionate about what they do. This deep-rooted commitment to academia exists not only in the classroom and through interactions with students as they teach and guide them to learn, grow, and pursue their own meaningful work, but it is …
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If you’re having trouble with the latest From Software game, you might be interested to know that you can currently get $20 off the upcoming Elden Ring strategy and lore books. Available for pre-order now ahead of their July 29 release, both volumes are backed at a massive 40% off …
Read More »18-year-old writes 10 books inspired by her life
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Read More »9 Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Books I Read Long Before I Jumped into the Cryptocurrency Wave | by Paulo A. Jose | June 2022
I stopped reading bitcoin newsletters Photo by Ibadah Mimpi: www.pexels.com The difference between an investor and a speculator is that the former wants to retire with assets and the latter wants to get rich overnight. 97.7% of those with assets are not investors. They are speculators. Here’s something I never …
Read More »Saugerties Public Library’s Free Book Project seeks to make children’s books more accessible – Daily Freeman
SAUGERTIES, NY — The Saugerties Public Library’s New Free Book Project is offering bags of new books for young readers at nearly a dozen outlying locations around town. Therapist Nina Schmidbaur, who sits on the library’s board, said the program, which started last week, aims to promote reading among under-10s. …
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As painful as it sounds, our world existed before social media. They were interesting times with barely a dimly lit portion of the Cheesecake Factory dishes to criticize, exactly zero epic no shortage of laughs, and not an adorable paw bean available to ogle. There weren’t even daily main characters! …
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If anyone reading this still believes that teachers only teach, we invite them to think again. Teachers today hold many jobs beyond simply providing education. Florida State is adding a new one to an already bloated job description – book censor. On May 26, the Palm Beach County School District …
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