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This week for #FridayHappyHour, we’re celebrating Pi Day with special advanced copies of the not-yet-released How to Bake π! Make a purchase on Powells.com today and we just might add one of them to your order!
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It’s the battle of the -tions today in The Morning News Tournament of Books: http://powells.us/zMirbz
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Congratulations to Dan Josefson,a fellow Media Source colleague and Junior Library Guild assistant editor. He is one of ten winner’s of this year’s Whiting Awards. Check out our starred review of his debut novel
This remarkable first novel focuses on an autumn spent by 16-year-old Benjamin at an unorthodox upstate New York school for troubled teens. Suddenly on his own, Benjamin has to learn quickly to navigate the unfamiliar environment of the school. Aubrey, the headmaster, preaches a philosophy of taking responsibility, but exactly what this means and how it is to be implemented is as much a mystery to the teachers as to the students. Both groups are mostly biding their time and making do in a difficult and unpredictable environment, an environment held together mostly by the sheer force of Aubrey’s personality. But when Aubrey is diagnosed with cancer things begin to change. Meanwhile, Ben finds an ally in Tidbit, an equally troubled young woman, and they make plans to run away.
VERDICT Funny at times, and more than a little sad, the book’s form perfectly mirrors Benjamin’s profound sense of dislocation and uncertainty. This is a powerful, haunting look at the alternate universe of an unusual therapeutic community.—Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, North Andover, MAYou can also read a sample here.
(Source: libraryjournal)
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"I was tired of not seeing myself in the literature. I knew I belonged there. I knew that there were things I cared about in my own writing and that they were subjects and material that writers that I admire were addressing. They needed to be showing up in the books. If I didn’t do it, who was going to?
"—Camille Dungy, on her anthology of African-American nature poetry, for the Collegian (via bostonpoetryslam)
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"Is everything potentially a trope? I’ve seen robes, booze in a drawer, and psychology (yes, just “psychology”) referred to as tropes by readers of spec fic, thriller, and mystery respectively. All head-scratchers to me, because I’m unfamiliar with those genres, but I bet fans know exactly what they signify when they show up. And that’s one of the things that’s so interesting about tropes: they aren’t just in a book. They can’t exist unless they are recognized and taken up by readers, and readers can only do that by referring to other books.
"—from Tropes to Read By and Tropes to Drive By in Romance by Jessica Tripler
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Lessons in comics from Dad. #Repost @speckphysique77 ・・・ You already knew I was teaching Myla to read, but I bet you didn’t know my 3 year old probably knows more about comics than you? #Powellsbooks #reading #comics #marvel #DC #MCU #DCuniverse #booksmart #likefatherlikedaughter
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Image via We Heart It https://weheartit.com/entry/164129173 #adventure #books #fun #imagination #love #nerd #reading #latenight
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Who will advance to Round Two in The Morning News Tournament of Books? http://powells.us/zMirbz
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