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June 01,2016
by Gregg Shapiro
Whether you’re headed to the beach, the pool or the Pride Parade, it doesn’t hurt to have a book with you to pass the time. The 22 titles below range from poetry and fiction to memoirs and non-fiction. In other words, there is almost something for everyone.
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Now in its second printing, a remarkable achievement for a book of poetry, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, the ful....
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May 18,2016
by Associated Press
Lucy Dahl, one of the late Roald Dahl's five children, has special memories of birthdays.
"Birthdays were always a big event when I was a child," Dahl, a screenwriter and daughter of Dahl and actress Patricia Neal, told The Associated Press. "We were one of the few people I knew who were lucky enough to have an indoor swimming pool and we'd have these big parties, great big celebrations actually.....
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May 04,2016
by Lisa Neff
Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to read Grimm's Fairy Tales and play in the woods.
This girl grew up to be a best-selling author who loved to tell variations on classic fairy tales.
Liesl Shurtliff’s Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood reached The New York Times' best-seller list in April, while Shurtliff was in the midst of a tour promoting her new novel. The tour brings t....
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April 29,2016
by Associated Press
Rudolfo Anaya’s famed novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature and a book some scholars believed sparked the Chicano literary movement in the late 1960s, is being made into an opera.
National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque announced this week it’s collaborating with Opera Southwest to commission the work based on Anaya’s nove....
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April 27,2016
by Associated Press
It’s a pleasure to read "Siddhartha’s Brain," which comes from a science journalist with long experience of explaining ideas for readers of The Guardian and other publications. James Kingsland even includes guided meditation exercises throughout a book that explores mindfulness and its benefits.
“Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment” (William Morrow), by Ja....
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Environment,
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April 21,2016
by Jamakaya
When spring begins and Earth Day rolls around, I join my neighborhood cleanup efforts and catch up on books about our environment.
This year I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. In this fascinating tour of our biosphere, I learned again how interdependent and vulnerable all species of flora and fauna are.
I haven’t studied science in many years, so the b....
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April 19,2016
by Associated Press
Her parents didn’t hail from the planet Krypton, and she was never bitten by a radioactive spider, but that hasn’t stopped Elizabeth Warren from starring as a comic book hero.
“Female Force: Elizabeth Warren” tells the true-life story of Warren’s rise from Oklahoma schoolgirl to U.S. senator and champion of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
The 22-page comic is the brainchi....
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April 15,2016
by Associated Press
On the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries, one title has been targeted nationwide, at times for the sex and violence it contains, but mostly for the legal issues it raises. The Bible.
"You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it's a violation of church and state," says James LaRue, who directs the Office for Intellectual Freed....
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Visual Art
April 14,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
From a dress worn by Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth to a "Hamlet" script owned by famous stage actors, a new exhibition explores how William Shakespeare became "the Bard" 400 years after his death.
"Shakespeare in Ten Acts" looks at 10 key performances of the playwright's works, from the first showing of "Hamlet" at the Globe theater around 1600 to a contemporary version of that play in the digit....
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April 13,2016
by Associated Press
Actor David Duchovny, recently seen as Fox Mulder on “The X-Files” TV revival, follows his humorous New York Times best-seller “Holy Cow” with another funny and heartfelt story, “Bucky F------ Dent.”
Ted Fullilove doesn’t have much of a life. He lives alone, works at Yankee Stadium in a Mr. Peanut costume and is estranged from his father.
Although he works for the Yankees, he....
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