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“With the idea to spread a message of ’empowerment through education’, NUDES has designed the bookworm to travel across india, in both rural and urban areas. the structure is built using 3600 modular pre-fabricated components, meaning that it can be easily dismantled, transported and reassembled on different sites. deployed on site within a week, the pavilion also boasts a low carbon footprint and promotes sustainable building technologies.” It’s so beautiful!...

Relying on giant piles of money to get the job done is a fine way to do business — unless those piles suddenly vanish due to supervillain machinations, bad luck, or even your own poor planning. As readers, we know the status quo will probably be reinstated sooner or later, and all that money will come flowing back in as fast as ever. But for our heroes, the problem is much starker (and Starks seem to be involved a suspicious percentage of the time)....

In other words, the last thing a superhero needs is some joker with a magical doohickey that transplants one person’s brain into another person’s body. But here we are. Most of the time, a hero will get swapped into the body of a supervillain who wants the hero’s body for nefarious purposes. It’s a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” situation, except the sheep has laser vision and the pass code to the Avengers’ locker room....

Early Anthologies in YA There are two clear divisions when it comes to anthologies for teen readers. There are curated collections that bring together the work of several authors, and there are collections of a single author’s short works. In YA, while there have been a number of the latter—authors like Margo Lanagan, Holly Black, Vivian Vande Velde, and most recently, Veronica Roth are among those with them other—the majority of YA anthologies fall under the former....

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!...

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Nearing middle age, Toru Watanbe has just arrived in Germany when he hears a song from his college days, “Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles. Toru’s recollections of his youth in Tokyo are set against a backdrop of civil unrest, heartbreak, and friendship. An essential coming of age story, Norwegian Wood details the pains of outgrowing your first loves. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Aging Rockstar Judas Coyne’s hobby of collecting the macabre finally comes back to haunt him when he purchases a ghost in an online auction....

For those seeking escapism and to drift away to another world, there are some solid ebook deals right now for distraction and escapist reading. From young adult fantasy to romance and thrillers, there’s something for every single bookworm exhausted from the day to day news cycle, especially today. Want a daily lowdown on the hottest ebook deals? Check out Daily Deals here or sign up for the newsletter here. What ebook deals have you found to distract yourself and what do you plan to download this week?...

If you love YA fantasy and you’re into graphic novels, it’s a great time to enjoy original stories, original prequels to your favorite series, plus some really inventive and clever adaptations of existing YA fantasy novels! So get ready to dive into these stories about assassins and knights, magic and romance, and what it means to save the world, or just yourself. Want to stay up to date on all things YA graphic novels and comics releases?...

This is especially true for little kids. Little kids have BIG feelings, and they need to talk about them. We need to let little kids know it is okay to cry and talk about their feelings, and we as adults need to know that it is okay to cry. So much of our lives are spent trying to hide or push down our feelings. Why are feelings bad? Why don’t we talk about them and work through them?...

With that in mind, this list eschews the classic lasers-blazing, terrifying and unknowable alien invaders the likes of which were immortalized by War of the Worlds. Not all the aliens within are friendly, to be sure, but they’re all far more complex and strange than the simple, hostile beings who want to wipe us out and steal our resources. And some of them are even friendly. Trust me, this is just scratching the surface of great books with aliens in them....

Sibling Books About Jealousy Mia Moves Out by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Paige Keiser This sweet picture book boils down issues of sibling rivalry to Mia’s anger of having to share her room. The idea of a new sibling was fun until her beloved room becomes overrun with Brandon’s toys, books, and even underwear! So what’s a child to do? Mia announces she’s moving out. But where should she go? The bathroom, the basement… yet something is always missing from these other spaces....

If you have to ask whether you were “edgy” or not, you probably weren’t. Millennial edginess hinged on shock value, whether carefully calculated or fired off in an unending barrage. It was… memorable, to say the least. And look, if you were a Millennial edgelord who feels bad about some of things you did or said — like the videos you made your friends watch or the off-color jokes served South Park-style?...

Need even more great webcomics? Check out these 12 queer webcomics, magically queer webcomics, SFF webcomics, and 10 webcomics for newcomers. A limited run print edition was also recently funded by backers on Kickstarter. Read it here. Read it here or on Tapas. Read it here or on Tapas. Read here or on Tapas. Read it on Webtoons or Tapas. Read it here or on Tapas. Read it here. Read Gutless on Tapas....

Of course, that doesn’t mean that July has no queer books to check out! LGBTQ publishers put out their books every month (queer all year!), and there are always exceptions to the rule even with the big five publishers. This is far from a comprehensive list (you can sign up for OQS for weekly queer new releases updates), but here are some of the biggest and most exciting LGBTQ books out this month, including a few horror novels, a trifecta of sapphic YA fantasy novels, a hopeful queernorm sci-fi series, and a queer TTRPG graphic novel!...

But even with all the proof, some people still don’t consider Black music as authentic music. Hip-hop is a global influence that started with Black and Latine kids from inner cities. Arguably, you can draw a lot of similarities between hip-hop, disco and jazz — all American phenomena pioneered by Black musicians. Even with that working knowledge, as a reader and music lover, I would love to see more books about the lives of hip-hop and R&B sensations....

Now, culinary romances are not a new invention. I have, however, noticed an uptick in the number of culinary romances published, and I am not alone. Bettina Makalintal’s Eater article even noted, “Move over, bodice rippers. It’s all about apron tuggers now.” I cannot argue with her point that there are more and more culinary romances hitting the shelves, and many of them are queer or racially diverse. Culinary romances give authors the ability to showcase food culture and the ways food is sold to the public....

There are significantly more women behind the camera than last time, but this list is still very heavy on dude directors, despite every single movie and series on the list having female main characters (some have male co-leads). The list is also very white, both in front of and behind the camera, with a few exceptions; however, I have noticed significantly better (by which I mean more realistic!) diversity in the broader casts—supporting characters of color, queer characters, etc....

Now, literature has always had a small obsession with the act of writing. Medieval poets like Marie de France, early modern playwrights like Shakespeare, and Victorian novelists like George Gissing — all write writers. Impossibly balancing writing as an art form and as a vocation is an apparent struggle in their work. Further, all three confront the pitfalls of popularity and commercialization by creating characters who are writers. Unsurprisingly, exploring musings on professional writing in books appears in every time period or genre....

1. Wordscapes Type of game: A crossword style game, combined with word search Devices: iOS | Android | Windows Price: Free, with in-app purchases Why you’ll love it: This game is easy at first, but quickly gets harder over time. It also only takes a few minutes to play each round, so it’s great for some quick brain stretching during the day to improve your vocabulary. And, the soothing backgrounds are pretty to look at and the game’s interface is easy to use....