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The director brings his signature theme - adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.

...but then they began to really appreciate it.

𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢, 𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚜. ... 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚛 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜: 𝚆𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎? 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙼 𝚆𝚑𝚘…
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The debate over banned books in school libraries and classrooms has taken place across the country, even putting Tennessee under the national spotlight. Now the Nashville Public Library wants to ensure everyone has the 'Freedom to Read'.

Discover what are arguably some of the best books of all time. These are books that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime!

In response to book bans targeting Black and LGBTQ+ people, the Brooklyn Public Library is offering digital library cards to anyone ages 13 to 21.

Neither the identity of the buyer nor of the seller of the handwritten, fifteen-page book has been disclosed.

Making a difference is not just about charismatic leaders and huge protests. As these books show, social and political shifts are usually the result of sustained, unseen work.

The recent wave of book challenges inspired Diffenbaugh to join forces with the local Firefly Bookstore and start the Banned Book Club. Since January, she and other young people in her area have been meeting every other week to discuss classic and contemporary titles that have been contested.

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Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive a presidential medal of freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month.

British author Jack Higgins, who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died

David McKee, the best selling children's author and creator of Mr Benn, has died at the age of 87.

The news was confirmed by his publisher Andersen Press who say he died at his home in the South of France after a short illness.

McKee started out in children's books back in 1964 with Two Can Toucan and became a household name selling millions of copies of his Mr Benn and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant books.
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Elmer remains one of the most iconic and widely read children’s book series of all time, selling more than 10 million copies.
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A pair of Charles Darwin's notebooks, which were stolen in late 2000, have been anonymously returned to the library that once held them.

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From Art Spiegleman to Margaret Atwood, books are disappearing from the shelves of American schools. What’s behind the rise in censorship?

When the owners of a Tennessee comics shop learned that a local school board had voted to remove Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust classic Maus from its curriculum, they sprang into action with an appeal calling for donations to fund free copies for schoolchildren. Within hours, money started pouring in from all over the world. “We had donations from Israel, the UK and Canada as well as from the US,” says Richard Davis, co-owner of Nirvana Comics.
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Ten days later, they closed the appeal, after raising $110,000 (£84,000) from 3,500 donors. “We bought up all the copies the publisher had in its warehouse and we’re now in the process of shipping 3,000 copies of Maus to students all over the country, along with a study guide written by a local schoolteacher,” says Davis, who has relied on volunteers to help with the distribution.

For Spiegelman, it has meant an exponential sales boost for a 30-year-old book – the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer prize, in 1992 – and a flurry of speaking engagements across the country. “It just shows,” he says, “you can’t ban books unless you’re willing to burn them and you can’t burn them all unless you’re willing to burn the writers and the readers too.”

That’s just as well, adds the 74-year-old cartoonist, “because this is the most Orwellian version of society I’ve ever lived in. It’s not as simple as left v right. It’s a culture war that’s totally out of control. As a first-amendment fundamentalist, I believe in the right of anyone to read anything, provided they are properly supported. If a kid wants to read Mein Kampf, it’s better to do it in a library or school environment than to discover it on Daddy’s shelves and be traumatised.”

Unfortunately, there is an unprecedented rise in attempts to remove books from the US’s libraries and schools. The American Library Association (ALA) told the Guardian that in the period from 1 September to 30 November, more than 330 unique cases were reported – more than double the number for the whole of 2020, and nearing the total for the previous (pre-pandemic) year.

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There’s an “Island of Misfit Toys” in the popular holiday classic. Now there's an island for unwanted and banned books, too.

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The Origins of Totalitarianism has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.

"For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy."
- Selma Lagerlöf

Time Enough at Last
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The American composer recommends works by Igor Stravinsky, Herman Melville, and more.