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8 swoon-worthy Hanukkah romance novels to read this year
Amid the hundreds of Christmas movies and romance novels, there are not as many books that highlight Hanukkah as the romantic time of the year it is. However, between gift-giving, holiday parties, beautiful lights and winter weather, Hanukkah contains all of the elements of the best Hallmark movies. (Photo: Getty Images) Unpacked compiled eight of…
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Amazon MGM Orders Pilot Based On ‘Charlie Bone’ Fantasy Novels: Joseph Fiennes, Carmen Ejogo, Emma Sidi, Brazilian Singer Giulia Be & Newcomer Cory McClane Star In 42 Production Underway In UK
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has ordered a pilot based on the Charlie Bone children’s/YA fantasy novels. The ten fantasy novels in the popular series were written by British author Jenny Nimmo and published between 2002-2010. The franchise also includes a prequel trilogy and two follow up books. Filming is underway on location in the UK…
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Portuguese-language novel receives prestigious National Book Award for Translated Literature
NEW YORK – Stênio Gardel’s debut novel ‘A Palavra Que Resta’ has won the prestigious National Book Award for Translated Literature, an unprecedented feat in Portuguese-language literature. A native of Ceará, Brazil, Gardel, 43, released the book in 2021. It was translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato for New Vessel Press, under the…
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Why There’s No New Scalzi Novel Next Year, Why You’ll Get Two New Scalzi Novels in 2025, and What I’ll Be Up To in 2024
Posted on November 21, 2023 Posted by John Scalzi Let’s address that first thing first: Yes, I am currently writing a novel! Also, that novel will not be out in 2024. The reason is actually pretty simple: The date in 2024 that Tor had available for my book to come out was…
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Your definitive guide to Goodreads ratings. (Or: why does your favorite book have 3 stars?)
November 21, 2023, 12:28pm If you use Goodreads at all, you’ve likely noticed that the platform allows you to “rate” your “reads” using “stars” (those are scare quotes). If you use Goodreads regularly, you probably know that the ratings system is, in a word, fucked. Why does literally every Colleen Hoover book have over four…
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Best Graphic Novels 2023
From stunning memoirs to sustainability guides, this year’s Best Graphic Novels list features 25 unforgettable works that take comics to new heights. GRAPHIC NOVELS Alsaqa, Jordan. Cooking with Monsters: The Beginner’s Guide to Culinary Combat. illus. by Vivian Truong. IDW. ISBN 9781684059836.Gr 8 Up–New students at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat learn how to…
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Reconsidering the Indelible Legacy of the “Feminist-Critical Mother of Us All”
Carolyn Heilbrun published several books of feminist and literary criticism. Twenty years ago last month, I opened the New York Times and saw the face I knew so well and the headline, “Carolyn Heilbrun, Pioneering Feminist Scholar, Dies at 77.” Sound mind, sound body, yet she’d taken her own life, leaving only the words, “The…
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Ancient Irish laws to ban books face axe in major Government rules shake-up
ANCIENT Irish laws inspired by a “Committee on Evil Literature” to ban books are set to be scrapped as the Government believes there is no longer a need for this type of censorship. Under the Censorship of Publications Act, a Censorship Board was created and banned more than 12,000 books and magazines in Ireland since…
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Toward the Next Literary Mafia
Imagine a US literary culture—perhaps in the year 2030—in which African Americans are the editors of the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, the Paris Review, and n+1; the editors in chief of Random House and Simon & Schuster and W. W. Norton and Graywolf; the editors of the New York Times Book Review…
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Thousands Of Books Are B2G1 Free At Amazon – Check Out Our Handy List Of Notable Titles
Amazon is running a gigantic buy two, get one free sale for Black Friday 2023. You’ll find a wealth of books in the catalog, including everything from novels and art books to manga and more. Sifting through the entire collection is time-consuming–plus, Amazon’s search function in the sales hub misses a lot of eligible books–so…