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Connecticut board votes against banning books after acrimonious debate over sexual content

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut board of education has voted two keep two books on its town's high school shelves after weeks of acrimonious debate over book-banning that culminated in the resignation of two Republican board members.
Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

“The Celebrants” by Steven Rowley (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Steven Rowley is one of those authors where if you read one of his novels, his name gets added to a mental “TBR” (to-be read) list.
Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

TORONTO — An intergenerational saga about a family that runs a beachfront hotel has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jasmine Sealy took home the $60,000 prize for "The Island of Forgetting.
Adaptation or recreation? The art of translating poetry into another language

Adaptation or recreation? The art of translating poetry into another language

TORONTO — Among the five works nominated for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize is a collection from Iman Mersal, whose unflinching poems put in stark terms the realities of everyday life.
T.J. Newman returns with a novel that's on par with summer movie blockbusters

T.J. Newman returns with a novel that's on par with summer movie blockbusters

Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J.

US-Apple-Books-Top-10

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Identity by Nora Roberts - 9781250284327 - (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. Tom Clancy Flash Point by Don Bentley - 9780593422793 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.
Griffin-nominated poet Susan Musgrave on what happens after the worst

Griffin-nominated poet Susan Musgrave on what happens after the worst

After spending years on high alert, anticipating the worst and attempting to prevent it, Susan Musgrave is learning to live with its aftermath.
Presidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to make book bans easier in Republican-controlled states

Presidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to make book bans easier in Republican-controlled states

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov.
Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov.

Review: 'The 1998 Yankees’ revisits team 25 years later

“The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever,” by Jack Curry (Twelve) Twenty-five years ago this fall, the New York Yankees won the World Series for the 24th time, part of a six-year run in which they won baseball’s champion
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