Tag: books
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department of Corrections unfairly censors publications even with the adoption of a new policy and the elimination of a banned book list, a prisoner rights groups said. The Human…
The days are dark, but books bring brightness. Here are promising new paperbacks to read as autumn settles in. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. This novel shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwoods…
One of the most anticipated novels of this fall is The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which debuted at number one on the New York Times best seller list. Remarkably, its the first novel by…
The reading project is great for young person who enjoys a good book and sharing what you learned with others either in a study group or with an educational display at the county fair. There…
Retired master sniper Bob Lee Swagger is rocking on the porch of his Idaho ranch home, not suspecting he is about to be drawn back into the game, in Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter.…
Most of us who grew up in the United States before the advent of smartphones and social media can remember adults using phrases like serious reading or can name people in our orbit who claimed…
Ella is a young woman who works as a caregiver in Say Say Say by Lila Savage. Her new client is younger than her typical one. Only 60 years old, Jill is brain damaged from…
Few books by Kansas-born authors get a starred review, indicating a book that is particularly outstanding, in Library Journal. Charlotte Hingers new historical novel, The Healers Daughter, is one such book. Set in Nicodemus, an…
Two years after finding and marrying his soul mate, Rafael Zhettah loses her to murder in Confessions of an Innocent Man by David Dow. Bewildered, he soon finds himself on death row for the crime,…
JERUSALEM (AP) A long-hidden trove of unpublished works by Franz Kafka could soon be revealed following a decade-long battle over his literary estate that has drawn comparisons to some of his surreal tales. A…
