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Jamie: Regulation 43.170 was created by the SC State Board of Education and automatically went into effect August 1, 2024, after it failed to receive a vote in the SC General Assembly. It establishes a pathway for citizens to appeal a school district’s review committee decision directly to the SC State Board of Education. The
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center Turns 100 Happy 100th to NYPL’s Schomburg Center! The Schomburg holds “one
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Katie Moench is a librarian, runner, and lover of baked goods. A school librarian in the Upper Midwest, Katie lives with her husband and dog and spends her free time drinking coffee, trying new recipes, and adding to
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. TIME’s Best Books of the Year So Far TIME published their list of the Best Books of the
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 Nebula Awards Winners The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the winners of the
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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Today in Books gathers a bunch of news from around the internet, but we cover some stories ourselves. Here’s what we were tracking this week. Amid the court battle over the future of the IMLS, Trump issued a budget proposal for 2026 that would make any of the legal decisions moot: the IMLS would simply
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AI Clones of Books Are Showing Up on Amazon Here is how this works. A real book from an author (self-pub or traditional) gets listed on Amazon. Then, some scammer thinking there might be interest in that book, uses AI “read” the book and rewrite the contents using different language. The name of the author
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Book Deals The best book deals of the day, curated by Book Riot. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals Originally Posted Here
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror
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For the past few months, we’ve been looking at checkout statistics for Libby—the app that patrons can use to check out ebooks, audiobooks, and emagazines. For May, we’re switching things up a bit. This time, we’re looking at the check-ourt numbers for ebooks as well as audiobooks. Both sets of statistics offer some interesting insight
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. AI Clones of Books Are Showing Up on Amazon Here is how this works. A real book from an author (self-pub or traditional) gets listed on Amazon. Then, some scammer thinking there might be interest
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel is a writer from Arkansas, most at home surrounded by forests and animals much like a Disney Princess. She spends most of her time writing stories and playing around in imaginary worlds. You can follow her writing
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna A tender-hearted witch. A handsome, grumpy librarian. A loyal found family. Witchy kids in need of mentorship. A magical coastal estate. Be still, my beating heart! I was told I would love this book and did I ever. I’m pretty sure I picked this up
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Goodreads has released its list of the 144 Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge (So Far), separated by genre. Each category has 12 titles, and the genres are: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Young Adult, Memoirs, History & Biography, and General Nonfiction. Some authors dominate their
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I set out to put together a list of new books out in June that complete 2025 Read Harder Challenge tasks, but I kept coming back to just one task: Read a genre-blending book. It turns out, there
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. Settle into your Sunday and catch up! A Wealth of Summer Releases From the NYT Between our own list of the best beach reads
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displayAdWhenGTMReady(“inside1”); Welcome to Today in Books. In this weekend edition, a look at all the news Book Riot covered this week. How To Build a Voters Guide for Public Library Board Elections The Best Books of the Summer, According to the LA Times Politics Can Now Dictate Public Library Collections in Three States, Per Fifth
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A Megalist of New LGBTQ+ Books Goodreads has a massive list of 135 LGBTQ+ fiction, nonfiction, and YA
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Eileen’s primary literary love is comic books, but she’s always on the lookout for her next literary adventure no matter what form it takes. She has a Bachelor’s in media studies, a Master’s in digital communication, a smattering
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