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Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.
Dec 23, 2024 4:33 PM
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Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.
Dec 23, 2024 3:51 PM
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Book Review: Pip Drysdale's new Hollywood thriller 'The Close-Up' weighs legacy against love
Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal break.
Dec 23, 2024 9:01 AM
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Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker is out at least two games with left groin soreness
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker will miss at least the next two games with left groin soreness in the latest blow to the team's starting lineup.
Dec 21, 2024 12:24 PM
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Order of Canada goes to advocates, athletes, scientists and Deadpool
More than 40 years after being told she was a threat to Canada because of her sexuality, Diane Pitre is being given one of the country's top honours.
Dec 18, 2024 8:26 AM
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Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A new novel from Kiran Desai , her first fiction since the Booker Prize-winning “The Inheritance of Loss” came out nearly 20 years ago, will be published next fall.
Dec 18, 2024 6:06 AM
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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (William Morrow) 2. Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Publishing Group) 3. The House of Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) 4.
Dec 17, 2024 11:43 AM
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Rarely seen story by crime fiction master John D MacDonald offers clues to his best known work
NEW YORK (AP) — Crime writer John D. MacDonald, a master of the genre, was so prolific that sometimes even he couldn't keep up with what he was doing.
Dec 16, 2024 10:02 PM
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Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death
Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek.
Dec 16, 2024 11:50 AM
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Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later
DETROIT (AP) — Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer: You can keep it — and no fine.
Dec 14, 2024 3:10 PM
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