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Iowa City launches book donation and recycling program to promote sustainability

Iowa City Press-Citizen 26 Apr 2024

The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation (ICPLFF) and the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center have launched a collaborative program in an effort to recycle books ... Public Library accepting books released within last 5 years.

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Survey finds surge in reading habit among Chinese people

People Daily 26 Apr 2024

... from 2008, according to the latest national reading survey published by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication at the third National Conference on Reading that began on April 23, World Book Day.

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Acclaimed Native American author Tommy Orange to speak at Barstow Community College

Daily Press Victorville 26 Apr 2024

“There There” was also the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, and the American Book Award, according to Wisconsin Public Radio ... Barstow Reads is modeled on the One Book One City/Community or One Book One School/Campus model.

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'The Lost Library' is 2024's Kids Reading Across RI selection. Meet the authors on May 4.

The Newport Daily News 26 Apr 2024

Programming continues in public libraries throughout the summer, expanding into summer reading programs that introduce new books and encourage continued reading beyond the assigned school curriculum.

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Rebel Wilson's memoir blocked in Australia due to Sacha Baron Cohen redactions

The News International 26 Apr 2024

A spokesperson for Cohen stated that this redaction represents a significant victory for the actor, indicating that the publisher, "did not fact-check this chapter in the book prior to publication" ...

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Free Comic Book Day is May 4

Nashville Pride 26 Apr 2024

Nashville Public Library is excited to also be a Free Comic Day Library partner this year ... comic book shopsFree Comic Book Day (FCBD)Gold and Silver ComicsNashville comic book eventsNashville Public Library.

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These shops create a bookstore trail spanning the Hudson Valley: See the list

Poughkeepsie Journal 26 Apr 2024

The used bookstore runs on book donations from community members ... This used book store offers a monthly book club in partnership with the Chatham Public Library, showcasing fiction authors who are Black, Indigenous and other people of color.Librarium.

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Turnrow fire a year ago left void in community

The Enterprise-Tocsin 26 Apr 2024

A year later, Shelby Gorman still remembers getting nauseous in anticipation of the fire damage that awaited her at Turnrow Book Co ... The photo, taken from the mezzanine of Turnrow Book Co., shows some of the extensive damage done by the 2023 fire.

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2nd all-Filipino book fair opens at WTC in Manila

The Manila Times 26 Apr 2024

THE National Book Development ... As the largest traveling book fair in the country, Aquino-Tugade said the PBF serves as the perfect venue to introduce to the public the NBDB's latest readership campaign.

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Bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians advances in Alabama House

The Hill 26 Apr 2024

It removes existing exemptions for public libraries in the state’s obscenity law and is part of a larger nationwide effort to ban books ... The law follows a nationwide effort to restrict books and other material that depict LGBTQ+ communities.

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Rebel Wilson's memoir allegation against Sacha Baron Cohen redacted in UK edition: Reports

Usatoday 26 Apr 2024

"HarperCollins did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson's defamatory claims once presented with evidence," Cohen's rep wrote in an email.

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Can We Become a Country of “Joiners”?

The New Republic 26 Apr 2024

Now, nearly a quarter-century after the publication of Putnam’s landmark book, and with many of the trends he identified showing no signs of abating, I spoke to Rebecca and Pete Davis, co-directors of ...

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Mystery Book Club meets May 8

The Valley Breeze 26 Apr 2024

NORTH SMITHFIELD – The North Smithfield Public Library Mystery Book Club will meet Wednesday, May 8, at 6 p.m., at the library, 20 Main St ....

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Authors slate a day of book talk

Mesabi Daily News 26 Apr 2024

Award winning authors Jess Lourey, Sarah Stonich, and Kristi Belcamino will appear at the Virginia and Calumet public libraries in May to discuss their books ... .

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