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Day
by Michael Cunningham
Ordinarily, spring brings a measure of hope. But by focusing on one spring day, April 5, in each of the years 2019, 2020, and 2021, Cunningham (A Wild Swan and Other Tales, 2015) sets the stage for painful irony as his characters are wrung dry as they make it through one of the defining experiences of our lives, the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fall Travel Guides: 2023
by Annie Bostrom
These travel guides, set to be released over the next six months, support people ready to get out of the house and remind us to take care of the planet as we explore it. As always, there’s also much to offer those who prefer to travel in the house, via sensational writing and jaw-dropping photos.
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Shelf Care #30: Free People Read Freely; Banned Books Week 2023
By Susan Maguire
In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to four people addressing banned books in different ways: Cortney Hall and Matt Rodrigues from NBC Chicago Today’s Banned Book Club; Amanda ReCupido, Vice President of the Downers Grove Public Library Foundation and chair of the committee for their freedom to read fundraising gala; and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman, who shares a Booklist feature about censorship as well as a few books she’s been loving recently.
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Essentials: Unlikely Pairings Teen Romances Old and New
by Maggie Reagan
Over the last few decades, romance stories available for teens have expanded to include more kinds of heroes, more kinds of love, and more kinds of happily ever afters. Unlike genre romance for adults, the rules of what makes a teen romance aren’t as clear, leaving plenty of room for the next great love story.
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10 Questions for Vanessa Lillie
By John Charles
Vanessa Lillie is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the author of the bestselling suspense novels Little Voices and For the Best. With fifteen years of marketing and communications experience, Vanessa hosts a weekly Instagram Live event with crime fiction authors and was a columnist for the Providence Journal. She lives on Narragansett Island in Rhode Island.
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