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News Articles: Book News & Features

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A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves

After a parent's complaint, a school district in Utah banned the Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group.

June 02, 2023
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  • Tilda Wilson

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  • Book News & Features

Here are 19 books our critics are excited for this summer

We asked some of our regular book critics what soon-to-be-published titles they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what they said.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Meghan Collins Sullivan
Amanda Gorman says she wrote "The Hill We Climb" — which she read at President Biden's inauguration — "so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment." Gorman is seen here in February, at the Grammy Awards.

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1 complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem

One week after a parent complained, Gorman's The Hill We Climb was moved. The NAACP chapter in Miami says it wants "to ensure that it takes more than one form to remove our history and heritage."

May 25, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Translator Angela Rodel, left, and author Georgi Gospodinov have won the 2023 International Booker Prize for <em>Time Shelter.</em> They are pictured above in London on May 23, 2023.

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  • Book News & Features

Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel win International Booker Prize for 'Time Shelter'

This win is a first for a Bulgarian novel — the author and translator will split the prize money. Time Shelter imagines a clinic for Alzheimer's patients where each floor reproduces a past decade.

May 23, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Romance writer Kennedy Ryan made history in 2019 as the first Black author to win one of the most prestigious romance fiction prizes — the RITA Award in the <a href="https://www.rwa.org/Online/Awards/RITA/2019_RITA_Winners.aspx">Best Contemporary Romance: Long</a> category, for <em>Long Shot</em>.

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  • Book News & Features

Kennedy Ryan's romances are coming for your heartstrings

The author's high-emotional-stakes romances are about to reach a wider audience, with a five-book deal and an upcoming TV adaptation. Ryan says her "happily ever after" has been "hard-won."

May 19, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Fatimah Asghar, author of <em>When We Were Sisters</em>

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  • Book News & Features

Author Fatimah Asghar is the first winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Fatimah Asghar's debut novel When We Were Sisters is a coming-of-age novel that follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death.

May 04, 2023
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  • Tilda Wilson
Gabriel García Márquez attends a Latin American film festival in Havana, on Dec. 5, 2006. A previously unpublished novel by the late Colombian author is due out next year.

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An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

May 04, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Writer Neil Gaiman (center) makes music with FourPlay (L-R: Peter Hollo, Shenton Gregory aka Shenzo Gregorio, Lara Goodridge and Tim Hollo)

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  • Music News

Writer Neil Gaiman debuts his first music album with an Australian string quartet

British writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman launches first studio music album with Australia's FourPlay String Quartet.

April 27, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton

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  • Book News & Features

ALA: Number of unique book titles challenged jumped nearly 40% in 2022

The number of reported challenges and attempted bans to books doubled in 2022 according to data released by the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom Monday.

April 25, 2023
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  • Meghan Collins Sullivan
Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir <em>Gender Queer</em> was the most "challenged" book of 2022, the second consecutive year it has topped the list compiled by the American Library Association.

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  • Books

Graphic memoir 'Gender Queer' tops U.S. library group's list of most challenged books

LGBTQ+-themed books remain the most likely targets of bans at public schools and libraries, the American Library Association says. Maia Kobabe's memoir topped the list for the second year in a row.

April 24, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
<em>Love in the Library</em>, a children's book written by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Yas Imamura, is a love story about finding hope in a dire setting: an internment camp where the U.S. detained Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Scholastic wanted to license her children's book — if she cut a part about 'racism'

Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when the publishing powerhouse approached her to feature her book about a love story set in an internment camp during WWII. Then she read what the deal would involve.

April 15, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
After closing its doors November 2022, Tara theatre is under new ownership and on track to reopen.

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  • Book News & Features

GPB evening headlines for April 12, 2023

A new state law boosts penalties for some businesses failing to post notices on human trafficking victim resources. 

The Tara Theatre meets its reopening fundraising goals.

The Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds. 

April 12, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
Blackmon walking

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  • Book News & Features

What happens next as Columbus seeks new chief to replace Freddie Blackmon?

With embattled Police Chief Freddie Blackmon accepting a $400,000 severance package to retire this month, Columbus residents are left waiting to see what happens next with the vacant position at the top of a crucial law enforcement agency.

April 10, 2023
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  • Tim Chitwood

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  • Book News & Features

2023 Whiting Awards recognize 10 emerging writers

The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize's judges.

March 29, 2023
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  • Teresa Xie
Carole Lindstrom's new book <em>My Powerful Hair</em> features illustrations by Steph Littlebird.

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  • Book News & Features

'Like a living scrapbook': 'My Powerful Hair' is a celebration of Native culture

Author Carole Lindstrom follows Caldecott-winning We Are Water Protectors with another children's book featuring Native culture. She says she hopes it helps kids "see themselves in a positive way."

March 23, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
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