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The star-crossed lovers or forbidden romance trope is always a big draw to me as a romance reader — who doesn’t love all that angst of characters who should be together but are kept apart for Some Big Reason? I also enjoy this trope because while enemies-to-lovers is great, the obstacles of forbidden romance or

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This week, as thousands of library workers descend upon DC to attend the first in-person ALA annual convention since the beginning of the pandemic, just down the road, two libraries are cleaning up graffiti. The Greenbelt branch library and the New Carrollton branch library of the Prince Georges County system were vandalized by 30-year-old Charles

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A new research study by Typing.com — a company that teaches keyboarding, digital literacy, and coding — explored the estimated monthly search volumes on Google and Amazon for the 50 most well-known self-help books. The aim was to determine which self-help titles were the most popular, and the results showcase a wide range of interests

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The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners were announced today. The awards began in 1967 and are a result of a partnership between The Horn Book, Inc. and the Boston Globe. The winners of the awards, which “celebrate excellence in children’s and young adult literature,” are all U.S. editions of books that were published between

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English PEN was founded in 1921 to defend freedom of expression, with founding members including Radclyffe Hall, E.M. Forster, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, and H.G. Wells. In 2009, it began annually awarding the PEN Pinter Prize, named after Harold Pinter. It recognizes authors who demonstrate a “unflinching, unswerving” writing about the world and “fierce intellectual

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George M. Johnson is the author of All Boys Aren’t Blue, one of the most challenged and banned books of 2021. The American Library Association has named them as the honorary chair of the upcoming Banned Books Week, which runs from September 18th to 24th. Johnson said about the position, “Being the honorary chair for

If you have a kid, have spent any time around a kid recently, or were a kid in the last few decades, you’re probably familiar with Eric Carle in some way. Chances are you’ve read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, maybe Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Celebrate the holiday with a Juneteenth book sale! The huge Amazon sale features some of the most popular and best-selling Black authors. The sale ends soon, so make sure to get your books quickly! Hopefully you’re able to snag some good reads from this Juneteenth book sale! For more deals, make sure to subscribe to

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When putting together the book censorship news this week, it felt like each story was trying to one up the next, ranging from the ridiculous to the truly chilling. We’re seeing an increase in lawsuits and legal involvement, from residents suing officials for banning books, to parents suing teachers for reading LGBTQ books in class,

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I’m lucky: I live in the suburbs of a large city. There are two independent bookstores within a ten minute drive from my house, and several more chain and independent bookstores within 30. If I want to have a perfect book discovery moment, I can make it happen without much trouble.  But the thing is,

NPD BookScan recently shared a report showing an LGBTQ book sales surge in the U.S. The sales of LGBTQ fiction in 2021 was 5 million, twice as much as they were in 2020. The surge has only continued in 2022, with a 39% increase so far. The increase has been led by young adult novels,