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Just plain good books for your summertime reading list
Denton Record-Chronicle - Texas
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There is no theme for this column. Just good books. Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto, Berkley, 2025, 336 pages, $30 Vera is back to entertain us with her bossy ways. But, Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)...
Reading With You Books of the Week: “The Bear Out There” and “Built to Last”
NBC 5 DFW - Texas
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June 6, 2025
NBC 5 are Telemundo 39 are Reading With You! Our weekly book picks from our partners at the Fort Worth Public Library are sure to keep children excited to read and learn all summer long. Each Friday morning during the summer, NBC 5's Laura Harris...
13 “Woke” Books Banned in DOD Schools
American Civil Liberties Union
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June 6, 2025
Books are disappearing from shelves again – this time at the more than 100 schools serving the children of active-duty and civilian military personnel. This rampant censorship is the result of the Department of Defense’s new policies banning...
Book Review | Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition)
Small Wars Journal
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June 6, 2025
Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition). By Anthony King. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-5095-6336-4. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Sources Cited. Index. Pp. x, 292. $26.95. Introduction As odd as it might...
Archbishop Demetrios Book Presentation at Crowded Chiotes Hall in NYC
The National Herald
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June 6, 2025
NEW YORK – The presentation of the impressive photography book, ‘Archbishop Demetrios: The Second Decade 2009-2019’, published by well-known photo-journalist and Archon Dimitrios Panagos and journalist and editor Revekka Papadopoulou, was held in...
Local Author Uncovers Jim Morrison’s D.C. Roots In New Book, Signing Set For Leonardtown
The Bay Net - Maryland
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June 6, 2025
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Author Mark Opsasnick will appear at Fenwick Street Used Books & Music on Sunday, June 8, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of his latest book, “Orange Brick in Warm Sun: Jim Morrison in DC.” The event offers fans a...
Whistler Museum, Victoria Crompton seek submissions for new poetry book to celebrate local history
Pique Newsmagazine
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June 6, 2025
Victoria Crompton and the Whistler Museum are looking for submissions to fill out a new poetry book. Sea to Sky denizens of all ages are welcome to put forth material that describes or pays tribute to Whistler's culture, landscapes, heritage,...
Vancouver Art Book Fair returns with expanded programming
The Georgia Straight
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June 6, 2025
Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Calling all bibliophiles, design nerds, and DIY diehards, Vancouver Art Book Fair is back, and this year, it’s louder, bolder, and turning the...
Manchester City willing to accept low transfer fee for sale of Jack Grealish after leaving him out of Club World Cup squad: Reports
Sportskeeda
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June 6, 2025
Manchester City are willing to let Jack Grealish leave for just £40m this summer, according to The Sun. The Englishman's future at the Etihad has come under scrutiny amid rumors that he won't be part of the club's squad for the FIFA Club World...
Publisher and podcaster Zibby Owens will help you decide what to read this summer
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Owens also runs an eponymous publishing company; owns Zibby’s Book Shop in Santa Monica, Calif.; and hosts literary salons and retreats around the country, including around Boston. She’s also a writer and editor herself (“On Being Jewish Now,” an...
New book highlights late Dr. Lal Jayawardena as one of six pioneers of development economics
Daily FT
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A newly published and widely acclaimed book Yale University Prof. David Engerman in Colombo to launch his book, ‘The Apostles of Development – Six Economists and the World They Made,’ meets with Milinda Moragoda, nephew of the late Dr. Lal...
The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)
The Mary Sue
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June 6, 2025
When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high...
Nick Horvath Book Sales Take Off!
Duke Basketball Report - North Carolina
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June 6, 2025
The other day we told you about former Blue Devil Nick Horvath’s second career: as a writer. Horvath has written a book called Sledge vs. The Labyrinth. Here’s one of the blurbs by EC Greaves: As gritty as Sledge is, it’s the dark humor that’s...
Michelle Obama publishes fashion book of her best looks amid divorce rumors that won't go away
Daily Mail
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June 5, 2025
Michelle Obama will publish a new book amid the divorce rumors about her and Barack but the tome will focus on fashion, specifically her best looks. Featuring 'more than 200 photographs, including never-before-published images,' The Look will...
I asked the Covid Inquiry NOT to publish my statements.. but I still hope the truth WILL come out
Scottish Daily Express
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June 6, 2025
During Covid I worked two days a week as a Registered Nurse in the mental health wards within Inverclyde. I had been the Infection Link Control Nurse for years and that was part of my nursing role. The other two days were spent as a Unite the...
The Trump Administration is Banning Books on Military Bases. We Sued.
American Civil Liberties Union
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June 6, 2025
On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, like Frida Kahlo, are being removed from walls. Black History Month celebrations are being cancelled. This rampant censorship is the result of...
Grow your own balcony rice balls with this new how-to book
SoraNews24
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June 6, 2025
With 30 seeds and 180 days of patience, you too can also eat rice from a bucket. You don’t necessarily need your own plot of farmland, or tons of agricultural expertise, to try growing your own food. Just about anyone can grow a pot of baby...
TIYN: June Book Sale & Free concerts are back at Kleiner Park
ABC 6 - Idaho
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June 6, 2025
Prev Next TIYN: Friends of the Boise Public Library hosting their June Book Sale going on through the weekend, Nampa High School hosting the Special Olympics Idaho State Summer Games, and free concerts return for the summer to Kleiner Park. Posted...
Letter: Love for book-lovers
Pique Newsmagazine
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June 6, 2025
The Friends of Whistler Library thanks you for all the ways you supported us to make our Giant Used Book Sale a record-breaking success! We raised $5,923.75 for programming at Whistler Public Library. So many helpers: book donations, book...
Bookseller snaps up children’s book deal
Sunraysia Daily
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June 7, 2025
A LOCAL bookseller has officially launched her first published children's book. Courtney Lawrence came up with the idea for Not Even a Snap!, about a young crocodile whose journey to learn an instrument keeps ending in disaster, while on holiday...