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Book Review: Death, Taxes, and Turduckens
Independent Book Review
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September 11, 2025
Death, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Heycke Genre: Nonfiction / True Crime ISBN: 9798288536526 Print Length: 182 pages Reviewed by Erin Britton Jens Heycke’s Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist… reveals some...
Book Review: The Other Revival
Independent Book Review
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September 11, 2025
The Other Revival by Salaam Green Genre: Poetry / Black & African American History ISBN: 9798990220874 Print Length: 124 pages Reviewed by Nikolas Mavreas “In the beginning there was the life of the enslaved man and the enslaved woman fully...
Book review: Mosses Liverworts and Hornworts of the World
HortWeek
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The illustrated guide to the bryophyte species found across the world is a well-presented hardback by the Natural History Museum principal curator of cryptogamic groups. This group of plants is unusual. They are dispersed by spores rather than...
STARRED Book Review: Wethersfield Road
Independent Book Review
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September 11, 2025
Wethersfield Road by Anna Binder Reardon Genre: Literary Fiction ISBN: 9798992419870 Print Length: 360 pages Reviewed by Samantha Hui Wethersfield Road is a story about confronting the darkness within, facing addiction head-on, and learning what...
Now the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century – book review
Counterfire
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September 11, 2025
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the founder of La France Insoumise, the party that has led the revival of the left in France over the last nine years. It has championed the campaigns against President Macron’s austerity and headed up a mass movement that...
"Authoritarians in the Academy": Feeling the Chill on Canada's Campuses
Reason Magazine
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September 11, 2025
The first few chapters of my book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech are dedicated to the relationship between authoritarian governments abroad—primarily...
Author Colleen Hoover Shares Cover and Release Date for ‘Dark’ New Novel ‘Woman Down’
Life & Style - New York
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September 11, 2025
Colleen Hoover has finally shared the title, cover, and release date for her long-awaited new novel. In an exclusive segment with the TODAY show, the best-selling author revealed her latest novel will be a “dark” thriller titled Woman Down, and...
"Authoritarians in the Academy": The National Security Law and the Shuttering of Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
Reason Magazine
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September 11, 2025
Timing is everything. As I explain in my book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech, the overlap in 2020 of the Zoomification of society due to COVID-19...
Review: A Return to ‘MicroMacro’ (Board Game)
ICv2
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MicroMacro Crime City: All In; MicroMacro Crime City: Showdown; MicroMacro Kids: Crazy City Park Publisher: Edition Spielwiese (via Hachette) Designers: Johannes Sich, Daniel Goll, Tobias Jochinke Illustrators: Vero Endemann, Leon Peters, Naemi...
Review: In ‘Dial M for Murder’ at Drury Lane, figuring out whodunit was never the point
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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September 11, 2025
Ever an astute observer of pop culture, Fran Drescher’s title character in the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny” once complained that the TV crime drama “Columbo” reveals whodunit in the first five minutes, and you spend the rest of the episode wondering...
Review: THE CAKE at Invisible Theatre
BroadwayWorld
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THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter is now playing through September 21 at Invisible Theatre. With ties to real-life events but telling a story all its own, THE CAKE is about a conservative woman named Della who is uncomfortable baking a cake for Jen's...
Review: IM GONNA MARRY YOU TOBY MAGUIRE at Dingbat
BroadwayWorld
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Dingbat Theatre has once again demonstrated its prowess for producing unique and original works with its latest offering, "I'm Gonna Marry You, Toby Maguire." This play, which cleverly intertwines humor with poignant moments of reflection, is not...
Books with a Purpose
The Ballito Magazine
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September 11, 2025
Empowering the Community through Literature Words by Elvida Sydney Sbusiso Mnguni, a 31-year-old book enthusiast, has always felt a deep connection to the written word. Before his father passed away, the family moved around quite a bit. Then, when...
Book Reviews with the Burnham: 'Jurassic Park' by Michael Crichton
Colchester Sun - Vermont
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Published: 1990, Alfred A Knopf Reviewed by Sophie Marks, Adult Services Jurassic Park is the kind of story that seems like it would have originated as a movie. The story itself is so cinematic, so action-packed,...
Book review – While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East
The Times of Israel
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September 11, 2025
For those seeking a definitive answer to who was at fault for October 7 and the associated finger-pointing, they won’t find it in While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East (St. Martin’s Press) by Yaakov...
Books, poetry and environmental conservation take center stage on Corfu
Kathimerini
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September 11, 2025
CULTURE The Corfu Literary Festival 2025 is in full swing, celebrating literature, conservation, and Greek culture against the backdrop of the island’s iconic Mediterranean scenery. On Friday, the festival opens at the Corfu Public Library with...
Former Vice President discusses Selma speech in upcoming book
The Selma Times-Journal - Alabama
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September 11, 2025
Published 1:31 pm Thursday, September 11, 2025 1 of 6 Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Bridge Crossing Jubilee on the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on March 3, 2024. (Brent Maze, The Selma Times-Journal) Vice President Kamala...
Anthropic Settles Lawsuit Over Book Downloads for AI Training
DevX
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September 11, 2025
The company behind the AI chatbot Claude has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that accused it of improperly downloading millions of books for AI training purposes. Anthropic, the AI firm that develops Claude, will avoid going to trial over these...
Best practices for short-run book printing in digital
PrintWeek India
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September 11, 2025
Using digital printing for short-run book production, whether it’s one or 50 or 1,000 copies, has now become the norm. Yet, the comparison with offset persists. Plus, digital printing has its own set of challenges. In this conversation with...
Harry Potter Fanfiction by Nonbinary Author SenLinYu Turns Into 7-Figure Movie Deal
them. - New York
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September 11, 2025
Legendary Entertainment has scooped up Alchemised, a “romantasy” novel written by nonbinary author SenLinYu that began its life as Harry Potter fanfiction, for a movie adaptation in a seven-figure deal, per The Hollywood Reporter. The deal, which...