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This morning Sheree Renee Thomas and Malka Older announced the nominees for this year’s Hugos, joined by Ulysses Campbell, the Treasurer of DC Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4C. The Hugo Awards have celebrated science fiction and fantasy since 1953. The 2021 Hugo Award Ceremony will take place at the 79th annual World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon),
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard for $2.99 The Joe Hill E-book Bundle by Joe Hill for $3.99 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler for $2.99 Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin for $1.99 I’d Tell You I Love
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The last few years have been an utter boon in the world of YA verse novels. With superstar YA authors starting or continuing their legacies in verse, more and more room has been made on shelves for verse novels. Verse novels are musical, and they give readers an opportunity to experience stories in an entirely
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler for $2.99 Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin for $1.99 Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen for $2.99 Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel for $1.99 There There by Tommy Orange
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow for $2.99 People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd for $2.99 Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel for $1.99 There There by Tommy Orange for $1.99 I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d
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Content warning: suicide and mental illness Sylvia Plath has come to mean a kind of shorthand, both culturally and in literary circles. You could say the same about Anne Sexton, although much less so, at least in my opinion. Plath has come to be a symbol of an angsty, depressed teen girl who takes herself
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Two years ago, the Aunt Becky College Admissions Bribery Scandal came to light. Last month, the documentary Operation Varsity Blues was released, and I for one do not have the energy to watch it until my own academic semester is over, but I’m very much looking forward to it. I come from a family of
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Huntress by Malinda Lo for $1.99 Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez for $1.99 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor for $2.99 The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel for $2.99 The Witching Hour
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I laughed when Tivo came out with QuickMode™, the option to speed through shows at a faster playback. I mean I guess if you have to watch something for homework or something (is that a thing?) and don’t really want to watch it, then the faster the better. But if you’re doing something for enjoyment,
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Witching Hour by Anne Rice for $2.99 Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller for $2.99 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik for $2.99 Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant for $2.99 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $4.99
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I’ve been hosting bookish podcasts for more than a decade, and in that time, the question I’ve been asked more than any other is, “Will you interview this author on your show?” The answer is almost always no, and here’s why: quiet as it’s kept, author interviews are almost always boring. But with the combination
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant for $2.99 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $4.99 Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark for $2.99 Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg for $2.99 The Mere Wife
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg for $2.99 The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley for $2.99 Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien for $1.99 How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman for $2.99 The
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich for $2.99 The Banks by Roxane Gay for $1.99 The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole for $2.99 Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones for $3.99 The Diviners by Libba
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