The Internet can often feel like a cesspool of bad intentions, casual cruelty, and hopeless ignorance. Which is why a social networking site like CaringBridge, which allows sick people and their families to give their communities updates on their illnesses, gives us hope for humanity. The site has been around for more than 15 years, and CaringBridge CEO Sona Mehring has just released a new book called Hope Conquers All: Inspiring Stories of Love and Healing from CaringBridge. The book includes several of the most inspiring stories from the CaringBridge archives. Not all of the stories have Hollywood happy endings––which is to say, not every person featured overcame their illness––but there is something positive to glean from each tale of struggle and connection. Here are a few of the most enriching messages. Even Strangers Can Provide Solace A woman named Beth Keathley, who used CaringBridge to keep people in her life aware of her treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, said that a woman she didn't know had been writing in her CaringBridge guest book for a long time. Her brother had the same cancer as Keathley. This stranger wrote to Keathley to tell her the brother had died, "Yet he was alert to the end, surrounded by his family. She called it a good death."Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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Secret pebble pictures featuring famous book covers encourage children to delve into stories. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Underlying operating revenue and profit numbers for Penguin Random House in US dollars have been stable year-over-year,' Markus Dohle tells PRH staff, following the half-year report from Bertelsmann. The post Germany’s Bertelsmann Reports a Half-Year Decline at PRH; Dohle Messages Staff... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz has acquired Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean, a debut YA fantasy set in a world inspired by ancient Japan, in which women with the ability to shift into monsters train to steal men’s fortunes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A number of teachers and librarians share some of their favorite and most effective ways of incorporating social and emotional learning into their lessons. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Children’s publishers tell us about some of their recent efforts to market and promote books that encompass SEL themes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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We spoke with educators and librarians from the Metro Nashville Public Schools district about how they’re helping students cope with crisis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning has devised a framework that highlights the five Core Competencies of social and emotional learning and includes some of the various methods for teaching them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne has acquired The Garden of Found and Lost, a debut middle-grade novel based on the discovery of a 100-year-old gardener’s notebook at the National Trust’s Ickworth house in Suffolk. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury is publishing an inside look at the case of Michael Peterson, which became the subject of the hit Netflix true-crime documentary "The Staircase" heralded "the new 'Making a Murderer'". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod are close to becoming ubiquitous consumer products. They are now in nearly 50 million homes and a number of publishers have recognized their potential for some time. Now, there is growing roster of publishers that are getting... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion is publishing a story of love, war, family and betrayal, based on the true story of a little-known massacre in Civitella, Italy during the Second World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has acquired a funny middle grade novel inspired by last year’s Women’s March by Laura Wood. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines on Wednesday promoted its digital chief, the hard-charging Troy Young, to succeed the high-polish David Carey as president. Young, who previously cleaved the magazines' digital operations from print, will now oversee both digital and print for a portfolio of brands including... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tash Aw, Jesse Greengrass and Fiona Mozley are among the 31 winners of the Society of Authors 2018 Authors' Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nelson Mandela and Ben Rhodes are among the authors featured on Barack Obama's summer reading list ahead of his trip to Africa. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson created a video of support for last weekend’s 'March for a People’s Vote', in which demonstrators called for a vote on the final Brexit deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Preti Taneja has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "awe-inspiring" retelling of King Lear in We Are That Young. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut novel We That Are Young takes £10,000 award after early struggles to find a publisherPreti Taneja’s debut novel We That Are Young, a reimagining of King Lear set in contemporary India that was rejected by multiple major publishers as commercially unviable, has won the £10,000 Desmond... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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