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New Holiday Novels to Enjoy This Season – Alliance Times-Herald
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan: Christmas comes early—far too early—to McCredie’s little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It’s summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. After all, who can resist the charmingly narrow historic street with its Victorian…
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Bangalore Literature Festival: Books, Banter & Beyond
Express News Service BENGALURU: The 12th edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) is all set to kick off on Saturday, December 2, at The Lalit Ashok Bangalore. The two-day literary extravaganza is set to feature nearly 250 authors from around the world, including acclaimed writers such as Perumal Murugan, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Devdutt Pattnaik, and…
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Book Review: All the Ways We Lied
All the Ways We LiedBy Aida ZilelianPublished by Keylight BooksPublication date: January 9, 2024272 pages Overview Set in Queens, New York, the novel introduces readers to the Manoukians—a dysfunctional Armenian family—and the fraying rope that binds them. While a father deteriorates from terminal illness, three sisters contend with one another, their self-destructive pasts and their…
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Staff Picks of 2023 | Los Angeles Review of Books
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2023 North Carolina Book Award Recipients Announced
North Carolina’s strong literary tradition is celebrated by the 2023 North Carolina Book Awards, which will be presented Dec. 8 during the annual meeting of the N.C. Literary and Historical Association. The annual awards recognize significant works by North Carolina writers. Since its founding in September 1900, the N.C. Literary and Historical Association has pledged…
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Build a Bridge: Elon teacher candidates support people with refugee backgrounds through Welcome New Neighbor initiative
As Nermin Vehabovic sits with the Elon students in his Children’s Literature and Arts Integration course, he sees himself in the three boys whom the class works with. His class is sitting in a circle on the floor of the Elon Community Church library reading “The Field,” a story about children on the island of Saint…
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Texas Book Festival Announces New CEO
Fundraising expert Marianne DeLeón steps into leadership role By Richard Whittaker, 5:00PM, Wed. Nov. 29, 2023 Having wrapped up its 28th annual event last month, the Texas Book Festival has announced that fundraising expert Marianne DeLeón will become the literary nonprofit’s new CEO, effective Dec. 1. She will be the permanent replacement for former CEO…
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YALLFest 2023 in Photos
An estimated 20,000 readers gathered in Charleston, S.C., on November 10 and 11 for YALLFest, the annual two-day festival celebrating literature for teens. Attendees enjoyed keynotes from authors including Cassandra Clare and Zoraida Córdova; panels covering a range of topics about YA literature from romantasy to horror; a book signing crawl; photo opportunities; and more.…
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Five Trends in the Chinese Children’s Book Market
Understanding what is trendy and selling—and what simply isn’t—is crucial for those looking at, and working in, the Chinese book market. Numbers tell the story, and as such, the first conference session at the recently concluded China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, which featured Beijing-based OpenBook, a clearinghouse for publishing statistics in China, was standing…
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2023 Shanghai Children’s Book Fair in Photos
The three-day China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, which concluded its run on November 19, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. The fair hosted 478 exhibitors from 25 countries and territories, including 127 from overseas, and 42,733 visitors. Back in 2013, the inaugural event saw a total of 154 exhibitors from 14 countries and 17,400…