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The books “Ribbons of Rust” and “John & Paul” show how the circumstances of time, place, talent, technology and friendship helped the Beatles find success.
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“A gift from Jerry Siegel’s grandsons Michael and James ... largely launching the idea of superhero comic books. Both creators were inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame ...
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It inspired him to write his new book "What the World Needs Now: Virtue and Character in an Age of Chaos." "I think these are the timeless values virtues and solutions that our world is seeking ...
Book two marks a genre shift: trauma recovery, emotional healing, and a different love story. This one is widely regarded as the series’ peak. War breaks out across the fae realms in this ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British ...
Based on a parable from the indigenous Quechua people of South America, this is Alper’s first picture book, and legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney’s last set of illustrations. Completed after Pinkney ...
She inspires others, big and small, to do what they can. Illustrators Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney are African American. Sascha Alper's author's note explains that the origin of the tale was from ...
Fans of Pinkney’s Caldecott-winning The Lion & the Mouse and his other lively re-tellings may wonder how he will treat this fable, which ends ominously for the grasshopper. They need not worry.
With the release of a new prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, now is the perfect time to revisit the original books that started it all. Set in a dystopian world where kids kill each other annually ...
Heart Lamp by Indian author Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, has won the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction. The winning ...