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Panels & Pencils with Dian Day and Amanda White, author and illustrator of SHY CAT AND THE STUFF-THE-BUS CHALLENGE

Friendship, food, and misunderstandings abound in Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge (Second Story Press), a lively graphic novel by Dian Day and Amanda White about two kids learning to see each ...

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Read an Excerpt from ECHO-MIRROR by Famed Dub Poet Klyde Broox

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Ray Robertson Defends the Act of Independent Thinking in THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG

In an era that prizes certainty and punishes dissent, disagreement has begun to feel like a moral failure. Prolific author Ray Robertson's new nonfiction title, The Right to Be Wrong (Cormorant Books), ...

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Read these Excerpted Poems from LOCKERS ARE FOR BEARCATS ONLY by Mallory Tater

Celebrated author Mallory Tater is back this month with Lockers Are for Bearcats Only (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books), a collection shaped by the steady rhythm of swimming laps. After the death ...

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