If the FAA follows the recommendations, fliers could read ebooks, listen to music or watch movies during takeoffs and landings if the content is saved on their devices. Continue reading at 'AllThingsD'
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Novelist, essayist, professor, and, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Charles Johnson has worked for years as a professional cartoonist and illustrator, and his new book, 'All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End,' collects 50 years of his cartooning. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Last Session' is the story of a delightfully diverse group of close high school friends and RPG gamers as they confront the significance of friendships as they also prepare to finish a longrunning Dice & Deathtraps gaming campaign. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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It's no secret that Amazon devices are some of the best things to buy on Prime Day. Amazon usually discounts most of its gadgets to record-low prices for the two-day shopping event, but Prime members can take advantage of great sales now. In addition to bringing devices like the Echo Dot and the... Continue reading at Engadget
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In 'Halina Filipina', a charming comics rom-com by Arnold Arre, Halina MItchell, a biracial Filipino New Yorker, makes a trip to Manila to reconnect with her Filipino roots and meets a snide but charming local movie critic. A 12-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The ongoing "security incident" with Macmillan's computer network will prevent the publisher from processing, receiving, placing, or shipping orders through at least June 28. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In this homage to George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm', the cocreators of 'Animal Castle' have expanded Orwell’s allegorical attack on totalitarian societies to include an embrace of civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, and the concept of love, as weapons to fight and beat social oppression. An... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon said Thursday it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the country Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2022-06-02 17:45:04 UTC ]
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Set in 1918, 'Radium Girls' by Cy. is the tragic story of the women working for the U.S. Radium Corporation who unknowingly painted the dials of clocks and watches with the deadly radioactive substance that would destroy their health and ultimately take their lives. An eight-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Did you miss the U.S. Book Show last week? Watch the Editors' Picks panels, along with the rest of our programming from the second annual U.S. Book Show, from now until the end of August. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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With the growing interest in the U.S., this year’s U.S. Book Show will feature a panel discussion entitled “Bringing the world to your door: A spotlight on Arabic literature and culture.” For centuries, Arabic literature and culture has influenced some of the West's most revered authors and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In the summer of 2018, 'New Yorker' Cartoonist Sofia Warren emailed Julia Salazar, a young democratic socialist running for the New York state senate, a request to follow her around and create a nonfiction comics account of her campaign. The result is the graphic memoir 'Radical: My Year with a... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Our reviews editors put together eight virtual panels, each featuring the editors of several big fall titles in a given category or age range. Here, those editors tell us why their books stand out. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Norm Konyu’s unsettling new graphic novel 'The Junction' is the story of Lucas Jones, an 11 year-old who one day disappears along with his father, only to return 12 years later—seemingly unchanged and still 11 years-old—without the father, who remains missing. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Winds of Numa Sera', by Morgan Rosenblum and Jonny Handler, is an ambitious and luxuriously illustrated fantasy graphic novel of epic proportions. It's the story of an empire and its sovereignty over a vast and restless assemblage of conquered lands, an empire vulnerable to foreign enemies... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Samsung's newest tablets have only been available for a few weeks, but they're already receiving discounts on Amazon. You can snag both the Galaxy Tab S8 and S8+ for less right now thanks to clippable coupons that knock $50 and $75 off the tablets, respectively. Just make sure to clip the coupon... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-03-09 14:54:03 UTC ]
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In her moving graphic memoir, 'What is Home, Mum?', Sabba Khan, a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living with her family in Britain, tells the story of her family before and after their desperate move to the UK after Pakistan-India Partition in 1947. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer and poet Derek Owusu is to chair the judging panel for the National Centre for Writing's (NCW) £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-20 01:09:43 UTC ]
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Peters Fraser & Dunlop has entered into an agreement with French publisher J C Lattès to handle all translation rights to the iconic Imogène series by Le Masque author Charles Exbrayat. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-13 14:31:59 UTC ]
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Jeremy Holt and artist George Schall’s new graphic novel 'Made In Korea' outlines a near-future world in which childless couples can purchase a sophisticated robotic kid powered by AI and designed by its Korean manufacturer to age and develop along human lines. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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'Just Roll With It' by writer Lee Durfey-Lavoie and artist Veronica Agarwala is a debut graphic novel about a grade-school girl who is beginning to deal with anxiety and Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). An eight-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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