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This list of mysteries featuring magicians was originally published in Unusual Suspects, our mystery/thriller newsletter.  Sign up for it here for news and recommendations for mystery/thriller readers! Hello mystery fans! I’ve got mysteries this week that are not fantasy but have magicians and illusionists in them. Two are murder mysteries with the leads being magicians, and

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This list of Black romances was originally published in our In the Club newsletter, In The Club. Sign up for it here for tips and tricks to keep your book group well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Now that January is gone, it’s Black History Month, which is always an interesting time, I think. For one, it’s a reminder

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Nuance is crucial for understanding book challenges, and because there’s a lack of nuanced discussion around the ways in which book challenges have appeared in the last year, it’s been easy for those seeking censorship to claim that in any and all cases of book-related discussions in public education and libraries. Intent is key. Take

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2022 is the inaugural year of the Science + Literature Awards, which are put on by a partnership between The National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The awards are given to books that “that deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology,” whether that is through fiction or nonfiction. The winning authors receive

We Need Diverse Books is a non-profit dedicated to promoting diverse kids’ books and their authors that started in 2014. In response to the recent wave of increased censorship in school libraries, especially targeting LGBTQ books and books by Black authors, WNDB has started offering Educators Making a Difference Grants. Educators (from K-12) in the

Rickie Farah, a 4th grade teacher in Texas, was voted the school’s Teacher of the Year in 2021. That same year, a student took home a book from her classroom library called This Book Is Anti-Racist, by Tiffany Jewell. The student’s parent, Sarah Muns, objected to the book and posted about it on social media.

In November, we wrote about Craighead County Library’s Battle Against Censorship, and that battle is still raging months later. The Arkansas library continues to face harassment and accusations of library workers being “pornographers and pedophiles” simply for carrying inclusive books across age ranges. What is not respectful are attacks on the library, its staff, and

A pair of white women calling themselves “For Our Kids Walla Walla” is staging its second pre-school board meeting public prayer session tomorrow, Wednesday, February 9, in order to create support for removing numerous books from the Walla Walla school district’s shelves. The women filed a reconsideration request for Gender Queer, All Boys Aren’t Blue,

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YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association (part of the American Library Association), has announced their 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adult Readers list. They discussed 76 audiobooks out this year that will appeal to young adult readers, as well as posting their top 10 titles of the year. The winning audiobooks are: Apple: Skin to

Celebrated children’s illustrator and author Ashley Bryan passed away on February 4th in the home of his niece, according to an update to the author’s website. He had just turned 98 this past July, and his family shared that he “continued to recite poetry from his vast repertoire – especially Shakespeare’s sonnets – up to

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This list of new children’s books with dance themes was originally published in our kid lit newsletter, The Kids Are Al Right. Sign up for it here to receive news and recommendations from the world of kid lit and middle grade books. Hi Kid Lit Friends! I hope 2022 is off to a great start for

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Suburban women are a force. Following the 2016 election, it became clear that the contingent of white suburban women could sway the power in the country. But in the months following, other suburban women knew it was time to step up, and in 2018, a group banded together to mobilize this demographic for good. Red

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn is a YA fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy, that came out in 2020. It spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and won a Coretta Scott King Award/John Steptoe Award for New Talent award, among other accolades. The book follows Bree, a young Black woman whose

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When 8-year-old Dillon Helbig of Boise, Idaho finished writing and drawing his 81 page storybook called The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis (by Dillon His Self), he knew exactly where to go to share it. A fan of the library, he slipped away from his grandmother while there and snuck his book onto the picture

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On January 25th, Granbury Independent School District in Texas pulled 100 books for review based on Matt Krause’s list of 850 books he wants banned from school libraries. Five books were pulled from shelves. Students spoke out at the board meeting, saying, We want to learn about things that may not be the prettiest or

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We as a society believe mothers to be the patron saints of love and care, a demographic that can never be in the wrong. But aren’t mothers too complex to be boxed into outdated models of femininity glorified by popular culture? Are they truly the wondrous collective that sacrifices themselves for the greater good of

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