BOOKS

In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press), Victoria Reyes offers plenty of both kinds of stories. She also mixes stories of her professional life, such as the first rejection of a journal article she wrote, with very personal stories, such as… Read More »Author discusses her book on being an “academic outsider”

Few people – no less celebrities – can unite teenagers and their grandparents, conservatives and liberals, country music lovers and pop ballad fans quite like Tennessee superstar Dolly Parton. “She’s just universally accepted,” said Ohio first lady Fran DeWine during a Monday interview at the… Read More »Dolly Parton comes to Ohio to celebrate free kids’ book program

“This one right here was a great escape, could not put it down,” wrote Rachel Vogel, a business and psychology student at Northeastern, in a TikTok post featuring the novel “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig. In the video, Vogel flips through the book, showing… Read More »How #Booktok on TikTok Made Reading Fun Again

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Education Associated teachers’ union promoted a book about teenagers kneeling for the National Anthem as part of their August 2022 recommendations. The book also contains scenes where one of the characters gets high on marijuana.… Read More »NEA teachers union promotes book about teenagers taking a knee to National Anthem

What’s the best way to get adults reading? Get them reading when they’re children – and there’s no better place to start than Unity’s top-selling kids’ books. AUCKLAND 1 Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by Alain de Botton and Anna Doherty… Read More »The Unity Books children’s bestseller chart for July

RAja Shehadeh, the well-known Palestinian author, was born in 1951 in the West Bank town of Ramallah (under Jordanian rule), three years after Israel was founded. His father of him, Aziz, was born in Bethlehem in 1912 (then part of the Ottoman empire), five years… Read More »We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh review – family and politics collide | Autobiography and memoir

Samantha overcame adversity to become a published author in her 50s (Picture: ) She left school at 16 with no qualifications and worked as a kissogram girl and a barmaid before falling into an unhappy marriage to a controlling man 27 years her senior. But… Read More »Samantha Lee Howe: The girl least likely to succeed who rewrites her own future | Books | Entertainment

The mark of a promising series is that each installment can stand alone, and readers can begin with any book. It’s too early to say if this will hold for Johanna Mo’s Island Murders cycle, just two books strong, but THE SHADOW LILY (Penguin Books,… Read More »New Crime Fiction – The New York Times