Banned Books Week

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"Improve your reading retention with these 7 tips and tricks," Bustle advised.
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The literary life of Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon was explored by Quirk Books.
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Brightly recommended "simple ways to build a reading routine your busy family can enjoy."
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"Please don't whinge about being knackered, you prat." Instead, check out 10 of Merriam-Webster's favorite British words.
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"I Quit!" Signature collected "11 quotes on the luxury of giving up."
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From the Orient Express to the Hogwarts Express, author Sarah Ward picked her "top 10 trains in novels" for the Guardian.
On September 10, 1993, television viewers were first introduced to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The X-Files ran for nine seasons, two movies, then another two seasons after its initial cancellation. It held the record for longest-running American sci-fi series, among a gallery of other accolades, and became a pop-culture phenomenon. The X-Files was also an important inspiration for a constellation of modern TV shows, and serves as a stepping stone between older series like The Twilight Zone and today's prestige television.
Though David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson continue to act, their talents have been abducted by a new media--books. Since the end of The X-Files, Duchovny and Anderson have each written multiple novels. Anderson's work is a thematic match for her old TV role. Between 2014 and 2016, she co-wrote (with Jeff Rovin) a trilogy of apocolyptic sci-fi called The Earthend Saga (A Vision of Fire; A Dream of Ice; The Sound of Seas). Her most recent work turns to nonfiction with We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere (2018, Atria). Duchovny's post-X-Files writing skews toward literary fiction with Holy Cow (2015), Bucky F*cking Dent (2016) and Miss Subways (2018, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Perhaps now Duchovny will have time to complete his as yet unfinished doctorate in English Literature from Yale University. --Tobias Mutter
Discover: This vibrant retelling of the Trojan War by a woman on the side of the defeated is long overdue.
Discover: In three fiction pieces from sci-fi master Connie Willis, planetary explorers, futuristic starlets and unruly teenagers find their lives upended.
Discover: French playwright and novelist Yasmina Reza's Babylon explores the psychological chaos that follows one violent, murderous action.
Discover: D. Wystan Owen's debut story collection centers on the lonely, disconnected and resilient citizens of a small coastal town in England.
Discover: An unexpected dinner party serves up delicious insights about life and love in Rebecca Serle's first novel for adults.
Discover: An erotic coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of racism and nationalism in Denmark.
Discover: Antony Beevor sets his skillful sights on Operation Market Garden, the 1944 airborne invasion of the Netherlands that went disastrously wrong.
Discover: A novelist takes up the role of journalist covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election and finds that the country is at a monumental and dangerous turning point.
Discover: The author tells of the difficulties and joys of fostering dogs and ensuring they find loving, forever homes.
Discover: A panoramic overview of Supreme Court rulings in the context of public education by a former Supreme Court clerk and eminent legal scholar.
Discover: Don Brown reveals the faces and voices of The Unwanted, Syria's refugees who have survived atrocities, whose search for safety is too often met with resentment and rejection.
Discover: The illustrated story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer--pastor, spy and passionate rebel against Hitler's devastating Nazi regime--offers readers great insight into that period of history.
Discover: Yu'er and Grampa experience everyday (and extraordinary) wonder in Nie Jun's My Beijing, a graphic novel for middle graders.
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The Heistby C.W. Gortner and M.J. Rose
Dear Reader, To catch a leopard wear diamonds. A year after THE BAIT, Ania Throne is on the prowl. Gone into hiding, she's planned her next move to perfection, intent on winning her dangerous game of cat-against-cat with the Leopard. But Ania doesn’t know that even the best-laid heists have hidden flaws. Jerome Curtis has taken a job at a Hollywood movie studio to try and put his life back together. When a familiar face from the past shows up unexpectedly, Jerome realizes that much as he’s tried to forget her, there’s no escaping Ania. And this time, what she's about to do could be her doom. The heist is on. Passion and vengeance collide as father and daughter bait each other in a high-stakes gambit, with Jerome caught in the middle. From the glamour of late 1950s Hollywood to a desperate chase in the ravines of Los Angeles, two leopards must hunt each other to the end. And only one of them can bring down its prey. THE HEIST is the thrilling conclusion in the To Catch A Leopard series, a dramatic romantic caper that began with THE STEAL and THE BAIT. C.W. Gortner and M.J. Rose |
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