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Books,
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August 11,2016
by Michael Muckian
In How to Whistle: Stories, author Gregg Shapiro hopes his 15 short stories connect with his readers and elicit an emotional response.
Indeed, many will recognize Shapiro’s characters and the situations in which they find themselves. The author’s talent comes in spinning insightful narratives that may offer insights into alternative solutions to the characters’ inevitable conflicts.
In add....
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Featured Entertainment
August 10,2016
by Associated Press
The domestic thriller genre is based on a simple theme — sometimes the worst terror comes not from strangers but from those closest to us.
That premise receives a gripping workout in B.A. Paris’ terrifying and often realistic debut. Behind Closed Doors, a best-seller last year in the U.K., is now receiving its U.S. launch.
Grace Harrington expected a happily-ever-after ending when she ma....
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Books,
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August 03,2016
by Associated Press
Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free territory is an actual train.
Winfrey told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview that she knew from the first sentence that she would want to share her passion with her audience, an im....
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Books,
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Political
July 19,2016
by Associated Press
Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing to take his message to the printed page. Thomas Dunne Books said it will publish Sanders’ “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.”
The book is scheduled to come out Nov. 15, a week after election day. It will include both his policy ideas for the future and reflections on his surprisingly strong run in the primaries.
The 74-year-old Sanders, an indepe....
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Books,
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July 16,2016
by Associated Press
One of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s favorite books is “Anna Karenina.” So when she was asked to read the classic novel out loud for an audiobook, she didn’t hesitate.
“I thought, ‘This will be amazing. I’ll just sit in a room and re-read ‘Anna Karenina’ out loud,”” Gyllenhaal recalled. “I just loved the book so much I thought, ‘Yes, let’s try and do it.’”
Cold, hard re....
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Books,
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Featured
July 06,2016
by Associated Press
For more than a half-century, Elie Wiesel voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of violence and oppression.
Wiesel, who died on July 2, wrote more than 40 books of fiction and non-fiction, but his most influential by far was Night, a classic ranked with Anne Frank’s diary as standard reading about the Holocaust.
Here’s a ....
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Opinion,
Views & Opinions
June 30,2016
by Jamakaya
Here are some summer reading recommendations, light and dark.
The Bloody Chamber is a hair-raising and irreverent take on traditional fairy tales. Angela Carter gives a modern twist to 10 old tales, including “Bluebeard,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Beauty and the Beast.” The stories are written in vivid prose that brings them to life. They read like cliff-hangers.
Carter’s w....
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Books,
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National,
News,
Social Justice
June 21,2016
by Associated Press
The archaeological finds seem ordinary at first. A rusted belt buckle, shards of broken pottery and glass, remnants of an old clay pipe.
But in this detritus of lives lived more than 200 years ago on a southern Maryland farm known as La Grange, researchers in Charles County believe they have uncovered the birthplace of a key figure in African American history.
Josiah Henson is not a househol....
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Music
June 10,2016
by Associated Press
If there is a Rock and Roll Hell, an inner circle is devoted for old fans who insist on telling you how the music was so much better back in the day.
You know the argument: musicians were more creative, the songs were better, etc.
David Hepworth, a veteran British music journalist in his mid-60s, has essentially written an entire book making this argument. Specifically, he says 1971 was pret....
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LGBT,
News
June 06,2016
by Lisa Neff
A new LGBT history from Chicago Review Press is kid-friendly and mom-approved — make that two moms.
Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights is stocked with stories, quotes, photographs and nearly two dozen activities.
LGBT parents will be over-the-rainbow with the book by Jerome Pohlen, a former elementary school science teacher and the author of the w....
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