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| A Season of Literary Art "Graphic Novel" is a format, not a genre. Graphic novels can be fiction, non-fiction, history, fantasy, or anything in-between. Graphic novels are similar to comic books because they use sequential art to tell a story. Unlike comic books, graphic novels are generally stand-alone stories with more complex plots. The range of comic book storytelling is vast, and this selection of 2021's best graphic novels, memoirs and histories runs the gamut in terms of artistic style and narrative approach, yet all of them have two things in common: a mastery of the form and a unique sense of expression. Courtesy of BookPage check them out here |
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| Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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| Lily King Lily King grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. After grad school she took a job as a high school English teacher in Valencia, Spain and began writing her first novel. Eight years, ten more moves all over the US, and many bookstore, restaurant and teaching jobs later, that novel was published as The Pleasing Hour in 1999. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award, The New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. In 1995 she met a guy named Tyler at her friend Bernardine's house in Belmont, Mass. They married in 1998. They have two daughters and two dogs and live in Portland, Maine. Check out her books here. |
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| Books to Get Readers in the Halloween Spirit Once the Falll season is officially underway, Halloween is not far behind. Whether young readers are looking for something for a sweet treat or a book to give them chills, these 17 titles will put them in a spooky state of mind come October 31st. Courtesy of SLJ-Check them out here |
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| Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.-Stephen King
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