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by Cat Stevens ; illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 11, 2021 Climb aboard, with this visual interpretation of the classic 1971 song. The lyrics of Stevens’ song are the catalyst for this colorful picture book, which depicts a golden-hued train with a plume of psychedelic smoke initially traveling across an unknown
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by Matthew McConaughey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 20, 2020 All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. “This is an approach book,” writes McConaughey, adding that it contains “philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality,
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The fantasy of manners has been a sub-genre of SFF (mostly in the F part of it, though you do see it in space opera as well) since the publishing of Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint and Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot. Normally it involves highly regimented social
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by Matthew McConaughey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 20, 2020 All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. “This is an approach book,” writes McConaughey, adding that it contains “philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality,
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The U.S. is a lot more diversity-conscious today than we were back when our most beloved comic book characters were created. As a result, without intervention from modern showrunners, superhero adaptations would continue to reflect the dubious morals of bygone eras. Sometimes, this intervention results in the creation of new characters of color, like Arrow‘s
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by Charlotte Milner ; illustrated by Charlotte Milner ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 2018 A comprehensive, elementary-level introduction to the honeybee. In well-organized two-page chapters, Milner explores honeybee colony structure, reproduction, pollination, honey production, the importance of bees to food production, threats, and more. From a brief opening survey of different bee species to a
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by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020 Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for
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In January of this year, I read 50 books. Then I did it again in February. Look, I read a lot. I’ve read somewhere in the realm of 250–300 books a year for the last few years. But this was excessive, even for me. Fifty books in a month! That’s about 1.6 books per day!
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by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 9, 2021 The miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years shape the destiny of a Texas family. “Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when I felt as if
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Happy Mystery Month! May has been the month for showcasing a love of mystery, in part because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday falls on the 22nd. Whether your flavor of mystery is hardboiled, cozy, true crime, or more thriller, let’s celebrate Mystery Month with a roundup of sweet literary gifts for mystery lovers. Pins, Stickers,
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by Elizabeth Warren ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2021 The Massachusetts senator and financial reformer recounts several of her good fights over the years. Famous for being chided for “persisting” on the Senate floor, Warren is nearly a byword for the application of an unbending, if usually polite, feminism to the corridors of power. Though
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And by ‘us’, I mean reviewers. Of course, people have said things like this before – Book Riot published an article six years ago saying pretty much the same thing. But that was SIX YEARS AGO, and since then, I really don’t think anything has improved. So I’m here to say it again: authors, for
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