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books
Night owl or early bird? Here's how your inner clock impacts your health
Did the holidays mess up your sleep patterns? Maybe you stayed up late ringing in the new year, or changed time zones while traveling. Science...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law
Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have happened decades ago. Edmund Wilson...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
New Releases: January 2025
So Not My Type by Dana Hawkins (January 5th) Sophie Black has clawed her way up from coffee runs to project manager at a top...
lgbtqreads.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Clubs Are Trending
There are some interesting updates for the new year In the world of book clubs. There’s a new snail mail book club based out...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025 List Has Arrived
S. Zainab Williams Executive Director, Content S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Most circulated Canadian books of 2024
What books did Canadian library patrons love in 2024? In this blog post, we share lists of the most circulated books by Canadian contributors in the...
booknetcanada.ca
- 30+ days ago
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books
Criminally Good New Year: 13 New Mysteries, Thrillers, & True Crime for January 2025
If these mystery, thrillers, and true crime books are any indication, publishing is starting 2025 with a bang! As usual, I aimed to find something...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both acts spoke...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The best new science fiction books of January 2025
If you are emerging from post-holiday stupors in desperate need of fresh horizons and new worlds to explore, then I have some great new science...
newscientist.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
New Mexico Becomes Fourth State to Introduce Anti-Book Ban Bill for 2025: Here’s What They Are (& What You Can Do To Help Pass Them)
Four states have started 2025 with anti-book ban bills on the table. Let’s take a brief look at what they say, who is behind them,...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste explains how oppression goes beyond racism in America
Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is a necessary book. This is because it offers a valuable corrective to the prevailing...
nwprogressive.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
8 Newsletters Demystifying the Publishing Industry - Electric Literature
The publishing industry can feel like an opaque, black box to aspiring authors, with countless gatekeepers—agents, editors, publicists, book buyers...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Nonfiction Views: Hey books! Help me dispel this gloom I'm feeling, plus the week's new nonfiction
A bit of a doldrums in the publishing world this week. Publishers have put out their Fall lists in anticipation of holiday sales, and are...
dailykos.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls among 8 exciting new horror novel releases for January 2025
It's time to move beyond 2024 and look ahead to the many promising horror books that will be released this year. Based on an early look...
1428elm.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
“What can I do to learn about book censorship and help put a stop to it?” This question and variations thereof continue to be the...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Find 'financial fulfilment' by following these tips from a top money expert
Many people are determined to mark the new year with a new approach to money management. Especially as those holiday credit card bills roll in....
vancouversun.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings
Contemplating death at the start of a new year You have a plethora of metaphors to pick from when describing these early days of 2025. January...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Harry Dunn’s STANDING MY GROUND Deserves Your Attention
Recent US election results have brought me to revisit Harry Dunn’s Standing My Ground. If you don’t recognize him, Dunn was one of...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 3, 2024
Today’s Featured Book DealsIn Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book DealsPrevious Daily Deals...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
In The Diapause, author Andrew Forbes delivers CovidLit with a deft hand
• Title: The Diapause• Author: Andrew Forbes• Genre: Fiction• Publisher: Invisible• Pages: 288 Published just before the fifth anniversary of the appearance of “the novel coronavirus” in...
theglobeandmail.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Classic Self-Help Books
New year, new you? Every January, millions resolve to become fitter, happier and more productive. If you're looking for evergreen life advice, look...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
15 Books We Read This Week
The taming of nuclear fission into a source of controlled power was a breakthrough met with great hope and deep distrust. Read the review...
wsj.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
“The Things Heaven Cannot Tell People”
War has miracles that minds are unable to comprehend, and anyone who has lived in a city at war is fully aware of this.It...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
Author and critic David Lodge, best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work, has died at the age of 89....
bbc.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Pick Your Favorite Artist, Get a Picture Book Rec!
One of my favorite things about picture books is the art! I love getting lost in immersive spreads or finding exciting easter eggs between the...
hachettebookgroup.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How To Pursue Happiness, According to America’s Founders
For the Founders, to be happy, to attain happiness, was the result of practicing virtue as laid out by the classical writers. In other words,...
nysun.com
- 30+ days ago
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education / books
It’s time to Treat Reading Like Working Out
Like lacing up running shoes, cracking open a book may not be something you’re always eager to do. But regularly reading will improve your...
slate.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Graham Norton Would Like a Chat
The talk-show host discusses being a “comedy butler” to the stars, why he serves his guests a drink, and his new novel, “Frankie.” The Delaunay,...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Books to Watch For in 2025
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Bracketology But Make...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Lit Hub Daily: January 3, 2025
TODAY: In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s comedy An Ideal Husband premieres at the Haymarket Theatre in London. • Jamaica Kincaid talks to Sandra Guzmán about...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had...
newrepublic.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
10 New Nonfiction Book Releases of January 2025
I don’t know about you, but I’m still in full-on recovery mode from the holidays. How do you even begin getting ready for...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Matt Davies' political cartoons of 2025
Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Davies is also a children’s book author and illustrator, currently publishing...
newsday.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The 101 Best Young Adult Books of All time
The Best Young Adult novels of all time , chosen by authors, booksellers & you! Here are Parade’s 101 Best Young Adult books of all time ,...
parade.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Deer! Dystopia! Patrick Stewart! MLK’s definitive bio! 21 books out in paperback this January.
Well, well. 2025, miraculously and mundanely, is here. For many readers in America and the world at large, this January represents the beginning of...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Banning Gets a Massive Audience and More Library News
It’s the first Check Your Shelf of the new year! What does 2025 have in store for libraries?Mass Book Banner Gets Massive AudienceBruce Friedman,...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old
As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement. July 1977: A 105-degree afternoon in Phoenix....
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Tom Montgomery Fate: What a literary critic’s memoir reveals about Chicago and its writers
We live in a culture of perpetual distraction. Last year, the average American checked their cellphone 205 time s per day — at work, at home, in...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
50 books we can't wait to read in 2025
From a "Hunger Games" prequel to a matriarch's memoir. The new year here is here and with it comes new books — lots of them. To...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Amazon Music Adds Monthly Audible Title Access to Subscription Service
As of today, subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited in the U.S., UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Twilight of the Mob Movie
Can mafia movies survive into a new era? Michael Cannell investigates. In March, Warner Brothers will release “Alto Knights,” a gangster drama based...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / gardening
Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants
At the Authors Guild Foundation’s third-annual WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival in the Berkshires this September, acclaimed author...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Deschutes Public Library brings back Winter Reading Challenge with prizes
The Deschutes Public Library is inviting the public to open up a book and discover a new genre in the new year. The library is...
centraloregondaily.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Fresh New Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This January
Ah, January, a time of fresh starts for everyone. That includes a new calendar, new resolutions to keep (or try to keepor immediately forget about),...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Best New Books Out in January, According to Indie Booksellers
Some of the most knowledgable and passionate readers in the world are booksellers in indie bookstores. They read a floppity jillion books every month...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / how-to
Thriller author Paula Hawkins knows how to tap into readers’ fears
Very early on in Paula Hawkins’s new novel, the reader is introduced to an abstract sculpture made from ceramic, wood and – here’s the...
theglobeandmail.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
3 things to do this weekend: Card-making, story time and a ukulele jam
Here are 3 things to do for the weekend of Jan. 3-5, 2025, curated by WGLT's Lauren Warnecke. You can find more coverage on our Datebook -...
wglt.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
All In for Story time : Tips for Library Staff at Every Level
Story time is a core element of my daily work as a public librarian. In my library system, we host 32 in-building story time s across...
ala.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book
An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty yearsThe post Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse...
thewalrus.ca
- 30+ days ago
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books / celebrity
Savannah Guthrie Makes Major Career Announcement Ahead of 2025
Savannah Guthrie has been a huge supporter ever since her Today show co-host, Hoda Kotb, made a major career announcement. And now, it’s Guthrie’...
purewow.com
- 30+ days ago
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