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The Most Iconic Fantasy Characters Ever

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kristian Wilson Colyard grew up weird in a one-caution-light town in the Appalachian foothills. She now lives in an old textile city with her husband and their clowder of cats. She’s on Twitter …
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6 Books to Read for Fans of Louise Penny

25 Aug 2023 6 Books to Read for Fans of Louise Penny Ready to dive into a world of heart-pounding thrills? If you can’t get enough of Louise Penny’s gripping tales, you’re in luck. This ultimate list of thriller books will have you hooked from page one with hidden secrets, …
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10 Books on Healthcare Inequity and Misogyny in Medicine

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night, she reviews genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes regularly as a senior contributor …
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Do My Old Favorites Still Hold Up?

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Mara (They/Them) has accidentally on purpose made their entire life about books and stories. Mara graduated with a B.A in creative writing and theatre and is halfway through an MFA in Creative writing. …
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11 Bookmarks for All Genres to Match To Your Current

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking …
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A Change of Pace: 4 Books Featuring Characters Finding Their

For August, we are celebrating women’s fiction titles that showcase characters relocating from a small town to a big city. Big cities and small towns can be canvas on which authors develop their characters or even characters in and of themselves. Here are four books that perfectly capture this plot …
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AI Not Being Good Enough To Replace Authors Isn’t the

There are so many stories regarding AI right now that it feels like a five-alarm fire mixed with a Whac-A-Mole game. And no, it’s not a five-alarm fire. But it is the very important pocket of time wherein a thing needs some form of regulation before we are fully immersed …
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19 Years and Hundreds of Authors! Annual East Hampton Authors

A tidal wave of literary enthusiasts, avid readers, book influencers and media hit the community for the annual Authors Night in East Hampton, NY on Saturday evening. This event attracts the crème de la crème of the literary world: critically acclaimed authors, Pulitzer Prize winners, celebrity authors, and enthusiastic bibliophiles from …
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 23, 2023

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Thrilling Novel of Scuba Diver’s Search for Closure in Belly

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus What’s it About? “The Martian” meets “127 Hours” in this scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. How far would you go to gain closure? …
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Former NASA Director of Mission Operations Sends Your Leadership Skills

Tough and Competent: Leadership and Team Chemistry by Eugene F. Kranz The unique leadership and teamwork principles that pushed America’s space program to the moon and back are the focal point of former NASA Director of Mission Operations Eugene F. Kranz’s riveting memoir, Tough and Competent: Leadership and Team Chemistry …
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“What Good Is a Lifeless World?”: Miyazaki’s Nausicaä Of the

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Woman’s Journey Into Hidden World of Secrets, Nightclubs and Orchids

Author Nancy Bilyeau has taken a few journeys into the past. Her debut series — the acclaimed Joanna Stafford trilogy — guided readers through the tumultuous Tudor era. With The Blue and The Fugitive Colors, we were transported to 18th-century London. Dreamland is set in 1911. With her latest historical …
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Hope & Brotherhood Amidst Poverty & Injustice in Gritty Urban

New City by Patrick Girondi What’s it About? Follow the misadventures of a poverty-stricken neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago as one man tries to help neighbors and loved ones stay above the rising tide of avarice that threatens to sweep indigent residents from their homes and into the …
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Influential Picture Books

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Alison Doherty is a writing teacher and part time assistant professor living in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MFA from The New School in writing for children and teenagers. She loves writing …
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How and Where to Learn Bookbinding

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Alex Luppens-Dale won the “Enthusiastic Reader Award” all four years of high school. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her …
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4 Books Per Season For All Seasonal Readers Out There

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Carina Pereira, born in ‘87, in Portugal. Moved to Belgium in 2011, and to Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2019. Avid reader, changing interests as the mods strikes. Whiles away the time by improvising …
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Fun & Inexpensive Gifts to Send to Your Bookish Pen

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Laura Sackton is a queer book nerd and freelance writer, known on the internet for loving winter, despising summer, and going overboard with extravagant baking projects. In addition to her work at Book …
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Essential Stories That Explore LGBTQ Protagonists Living with a Disability

In the United States alone, over forty-two million people are living with a disability—thirteen percent of the population. And yet, it wasn’t until 1990 that the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act was passed by Congress. We have a long way to go to be a truly inclusive society, and that’s why being mindful …
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A Year of Books: One Book for Each Month

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Addison Rizer is a writer and reader of anything that can be described as weird, sad, or scary. She has an MA in Professional Writing and a BA in English. She writes for …
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5 Books to Read for Fans of Tessa Bailey

18 Aug 2023 5 Books to Read for Fans of Tessa Bailey Get ready to fan yourself and swoon, because we’re diving into a world of romance that’s as steamy as it is sweet – just like your favorite Tessa Bailey novels! This handpicked selection of romance reads is guaranteed …
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Books & Looks Podcast: Summer of 1876: A Tapestry of

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either …
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Riveting Novel of High-Stakes Espionage, Freedom and Romance

Anastasia by Willard Thurston What’s it About? A talented Russian spy striving to free herself from the ever-tightening Gordian knot she finds herself at the center of. Identity and independence are inextricably linked in Willard Thurston’s newly illustrated edition of Anastasia, a study of a talented Russian spy striving to …
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 16, 2023

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