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Baby Names from Classic Children’s Books Baby Names from Little Women Depending on your favorite March sister, you can choose from Meg (or Margaret), Jo (or Josephine), Beth (or Elizabeth), or Amy. Theodore is a beautiful, old-fashioned name, and that character’s nickname, Laurie, also makes a fine baby name. Baby Names from His Dark Materials Philip Pullman has a gift for names—many of these sound recognizably of our own world and yet unusual, which is perfect for a fantasy series....

For five days in February, Poem-a-Day shared the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers with their readership of over 500,000. The poems were selected by poet Clint Smith, February’s guest editor for the free daily poetry series offered by the Academy of American Poets. The publication of these poems was made possible by Smith’s partnership with Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, the DC-based nonprofit that works with the individuals who were featured....

In the quiz below, you’ll find eleven very different but still very readable and compelling books that are at least 500 pages. They will keep you occupied for, well, at least a few hours! There’s something for everyone, from nonfiction to fiction, tragedies to thrillers to adventures, classics to modern pieces, and beyond. While many libraries are closing in light of the public health crisis to help flatten the curve, many of these libraries also offer digital collections....

TBR is Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Been dreaming of a “Stitch Fix for books?” Now it’s here! Tell TBR about your reading preferences and what you’re looking for, and sit back while your Bibliologist handpicks recommendations just for you. TBR offers plans to receive hardcover books in the mail or recommendations by email, so there’s an option for every budget. TBR is also available as a gift to give to the readers in your life!...

Meet Libby. The one-tap reading app from OverDrive. By downloading Libby to your smartphone, you can access thousands of eBooks and audiobooks from your library for free anytime and anywhere. You’ll find titles in all genres, ranging from bestsellers, classics, nonfiction, comics and much more. Libby works on Apple and Android devices and is compatible with Kindle. All you need is a library card but you can sample any book in the library collection without one....

Meet Libby. The one-tap reading app from OverDrive. By downloading Libby to your smartphone, you can access thousands of eBooks and audiobooks from your library for free anytime and anywhere. You’ll find titles in all genres, ranging from bestsellers, classics, nonfiction, comics and much more. Libby works on Apple and Android devices and is compatible with Kindle. All you need is a library card but you can sample any book in the library collection without one....

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s action-packed middle-grade fantasy—now in paperback with an all-new cover! | On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry, received my inheritance: a bag of sand. I thought the sand was a joke until Evil Librarians came to steal it. It turns out they’re actually a secret cult keeping the truth from you—a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords!...

Shortlisted Author: Hoda Barakat Hoda Barakat’s The Night Post made the shortlist. This marks the first time this acclaimed Lebanese novelist has been recognized by the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). However, Barakat is no stranger to acclaim. She won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel Tiller of Waters and the al-Nagid Award for The Stone of Laughter. In 2002 she became Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and then the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite National in 2008....

But the professor, a newly-minted PhD in her first official position, had other ideas than the usual Dickens to Wilde and on through the drawing room dramas of British literature. Instead, she decided to teach us a visceral lesson on the legacy of Jane Eyre by choosing works that are based — directly or loosely — on Brontë’s seminal tale. We spent the entire semester looping book after book back to Jane, to the madwoman in the attic and physical manifestations of inner turmoil, to disapproving aunts and dead best friends....

But these topics never end up feeling like issue books in her stories. They are incorporated into the lives of Rai’s characters the way they are incorporated into all of our real lives: with nuance. They are part of the story. Not the whole story. They are there to tell us more about the characters and show that people dealing with any and all of these things can fall in love and deserve happy endings....

How do people learn to read? Here is a very simplified explanation of how most people learn to read. When people are learning to read in English, they need to be able to decode words, and they need to be able to memorize sight words. Words that can be decoded follow “the rules”—the letter C says /k/ as in cat, the letter A says /a/ as in apple—and the sounds blend together to make a recognized word....

Who really understands the concept of karma? Half the time when people are referencing it, it sounds like some form of revenge. But karma is a much deeper and richer concept than that. As explained by Sadhguru, yogi & mystic, karma means action. Sadhguru turns the tables by showing us clearly that karma is an empowering possibility for taking charge of our lives by choosing how we respond to what is happening to us....

Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very well. They know who she is and they know what she did. We are strapped in and ready for a ride! Seriously, books that take twists and turns and leave us spinning and shouting, “We never saw that coming!” are so much fun we can’t get enough. That’s why we’re asking you for the best twisty reads you’ve read?...

Advent by James Treadwell A choice beyond tough, but this month I’ll go with the book the delighted me most: Advent by James Treadwell, from Emily Bestler Books/Atria. It’s book one of a trilogy, and convinced me that I am still not “up to here” with books about adolescents, magic, and battles between good and evil. –Bethanne Patrick Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway I read painfully slowly, especially when compared to my more bookivorous friends, so I’ve spent a bulk of July reading the same book, Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker....

Feelings start to develop for Nick as well before long, but neither is quite sure how to proceed. For one, Nick is still figuring out his sexuality. In fact, one of the things that’s great about Heartstopper is its range in representation. There are people still questioning, like Nick, and there are those who are proudly out. There are lesbian, bi, gay, trans, and asexual characters, and while there is some homophobia, there is so much queer joy to be had throughout the series....

Lissa Haynes is pissed. It takes no other prompting to get her to spill. “Bridget Miller is such a bitch.” She punctuates the statement with a slam of her tray, and I hold back a wince. She sounds so angry that, for once, Divya Kumari curbs her speech on internalized misogyny and its terminology. Such a good heart that girl has. It’s why she’s only allowed to sit with us twice a week....

“Buddhism goes way back — so far back, in fact, that we’re still examining important evidence of just how far back it goes. Take the exhibit above, which may look like nothing more than a collection of faded scraps with writing on them. In fact, they’re pieces of the laboriously and carefully unrolled and scanned Gandhara Scroll, which, having originally been written about two millennia ago, ranks as one of the oldest Buddhist manuscripts currently known....

Graphic novels can be enjoyed by both children and adults as they set out on a journey with authors and illustrators to explore different faucets of entire worlds, emotions, and personalities. Here’s a list of short standalone graphic novels that capture entire emotions in less than 150 pages: What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman (144 Pages) Hallie Bateman’s glaring realization that her mother might not be around forever led to her asking for a step-by-step guide to get through her loss....

Find below some of the most exciting YA paperbacks hitting shelves this spring. Because of the supply chain challenges hitting publishing, some of these dates may shift or change, but this is the closest to accurate as possible, per publishing catalog information. Some of these books are paperback originals, meaning they’ll only ever release in paperback, while others are first releases in paperback of books that have already been published in hardcover....

…And I have read almost none of them. Instead, for the past two months, I have been gorging myself on Erotic Romance Urban Fantasy books I can get through my my library’s ebook app because I am both cheap and despise the idea of leaving my house for anything outside of absolute necessity. This isn’t an article about bad-mouthing sexy urban fantasy romance by the way, considering most internet critiques involving any romance are laced with sexist subtexts....