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I've written books for young readers for more than two decades, and I once ran an imprint that published edgy titles, like Gary Nash's Forbidden Love , which is about America's secret history of race relations, ... via School Library Journal

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In just under three minutes, Steven Pressfield sets the stage for his latest novel, Killing Rommel . via GalleyCat

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“It was very hard for me to judge”

Joshua Bram now knows about his murdered ancestors. Their story lives on. Julianna Miller, a senior at State College Area High School, and Rebecca Domico, a sophomore, perform at the ceremony. via Centre Daily Times

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Documentarian Errol Morris effectively takes the viewer inside the atmosphere of psychological and physical abuse doled out by American military personnel at Abu Ghraib by connecting the hundreds of damning ... via AltWeeklies

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“Quite often we work with student researchers in the library building, and we then supplement that work with reference databases”

Mandarin residents are increasingly doing business with the public library at home, at school or from their offices. via Jacksonville.com

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John Cho, left, and Kal Penn as Harold and Kumar run afoul of the authorities, including a dogged government agent played by Rob Corddry, in "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay." Harold and Kumar ... via The Jersey Journal

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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude.... Also, of endless books.”

"Mom, there's a lot more to life than reading," my 14-year-old son said as he rushed in from school one afternoon and texted another reading-averse boy down the block. via Christian Science Monitor

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The unfocused, intermittent, and borderline incoherent thoughts of Chris Roberson, a science fiction writer. via Roberson's Interminable Ramble

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“It becomes theatrically important, after you die, what your last few days are like.”

It's just too easy to say that this society has blended genres so completely that there's no difference between what's real and what's make-believe. But a term such as this definitely goes a long way in ... via Jewish Exponent

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Bra Boys is nevertheless intriguing for its insider's perspective of an outsider culture steeped in tradition, male-bonding rituals, and intense localism. via Rotten Tomatoes

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