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Goosebumps author R.L. Stine and Marc Brown, author and illustrator of the Arthur books, are collaborating on a new picture book titled Mary McScary. The two children’s book icons have been friends for many …
An Illinois school district has recently pulled one book off its junior English curriculum and is opening up a public forum of debate over the rest of the reading …
After the success of The Girl On The Train, author Paula Hawkins announced at the end of November that her new suspense novel, Into the Water, will be hitting shelves on …
Those that grew up loving the whimsical, quirky, fantastical world of Dr. Seuss may be surprised to learn of his unknown hobby: taxidermy. Having grown up frequenting the Springfield …
Known as one of the most controversial books ever written, Mein Kampf or My Struggle in English, is the autobiography of Adolf Hitler. The two volume book was written while …
Police in Bogota, Colombia had quite the case on their hands when, in 2015, a signed first edition of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude was stolen from a book …
The Nobel Prize awards are one of, if not the most prestigious awards any person can dream of obtaining. In 1901, following the death of Alfred Nobel in 1895, prizes …
YouTube Channel: CBS News From the Description: Disney scouts chose Dancer Marge Champion as the model for Snow White in the 1937 animated classic. As Michelle Miller reports, at 90 …
Amazon helped pioneer e-reading with the Kindle. Now, the retail giant is once again changing the way people read, this time by releasing an app that lets kids read …
A Casper, Wyoming bookstore is making headlines as it has enforced a new rule. One that will surely take customers back to the days of when technology didn’t completely …
We have another very young author on the rise! 8-year old Katie Pryor has been writing books ever since her own mother, Annie Pryor, wrote her own book when …
Plenty of fans were shocked to find out that the final episode of season three of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful was in fact the conclusion of the show in it’s …
Melanie Pitman
November 10, 2016
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Monday evening, at roughly 10pm EST, Jack Rabinovitch announced the winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a beaming Madeleine Thien graciously accepted the honor. Her novel, Do …
An 8-line poem handwitten by Anne Frank in 1942 is expected to fetch up to €50,000 ($55,100) at auction. The lines were written in the “poezie album” or friendship …
If you’re like the rest of the world, you now know the story of Alexander Hamilton by heart. In fact, you can probably sing a good two plus hours …
Next year, Argentinian conceptual artist Marta Minujin has plans to construct a massive installation in order to promote intellectual freedom and to protest literary censorship in Germany and around …
YouTube Channel: Rizzoli Books From the Description: Take a look back at Rizzoli Bookstore’s previous home for twenty-nine years on 57th Street in New York City. For nearly fifty years, New …
This year marks the 75th birthday of Wonder Woman. She is a superhero from DC Comics who made her debut appearance in issue one of All Star Comics in 1941, and made her …
Dylan Siegel was a normal 6 year-old boy until one day he found out his best friend, Jonah, had a life threatening, rare, liver condition. Upon hearing about Jonah’s …
YouTube Channel: The Young Turks From the Description: A bookstore in Denver is catching a lot of flack because it’s name is now associated with a terrorist group. ISIS Books & Gifts …