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As a single woman who has chosen to not have children, all of these scenarios fascinate and inspire me. I can’t fathom what it’s like to have to make these choices. Little lives depend on them! Books help, right? Here are books that can be helpful to moms and also to those of us who would like to know more about the kinds of decisions they encounter. As a yoga instructor, life coach, and reiki practitioner, I’m constantly stressing balance and self-care....

Broadwater was cleared of charges after the judge found significant flaws in the prosecution. “I am grateful that Mr Broadwater has finally been vindicated, but the fact remains that 40 years ago, he became another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system. I will forever be sorry for what was done to him,” said Sebold in a statement to the Associated Press this week. Sebold’s 1999 memoir documents her experience as a victim of rape during her freshman year at Syracuse University in May 1982....

And here’s something I noticed that surprised me—and I was equally surprised that I hadn’t noticed it before. My favourite colour is purple. But apparently, it’s not the favourite colour of many book designers—or at least many marketing departments who okay covers. I can count the number of purple spines on my shelf on one hand. If I include lilac, I might need some fingers of the other hand, too....

Around 2013, Dennis Rodman made his first visit to the basketball-loving young leader of North Korea. Like most people, I was mystified as to why Dennis Rodman would be involved in international diplomacy of any kind. But hey, the world’s a weird and complicated place. So I thought I might read something on this country I knew so little about. Sometime that year I picked up Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea....

Better yet, DC: Women of Action (out October 22, 2019) explains in depth the female heroes and villains of Gotham City. It is like a CliffsNotes for novice comic book fans like me. (The book explores the other DC worlds: Themyscira, Metropolis and ‘Beyond,’ but I focused on the Gotham City section since I am interested in Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey.) It’s cool to have a comic book movie to look forward to, but even cooler when you know the characters’ back stories and relationships....

Take Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears, for instance. In it, Tom Lutz observes the act of weeping and how, even though it’s a universal way of emoting, its interpretations are not universal. This multi-disciplinary study on tears incorporates elements from history, literature, the arts, and the social sciences to pose questions like why we cry, how to react to another person’s tears, when do we stop crying, and the like....

Archie, Betty, and Veronica are about to experience a very different kind of triangle as the Predator sets its tri-beam laser sights on the young lovers from Riverdale. That’s actually the perfect lead-in to the debut issue’s main cover, rendered by Ruiz, Kozlowski, and Millet in the wholesome Archie house style. You might miss them at first glance because they so eerily resemble the trademark freckles on his cheeks, but those aforementioned laser sights are trained squarely (triangularly?...

I love sinking into a good 18 hour audiobook. But I’ve come to appreciate short audiobooks for their ability to bust me out of reading slumps. Sometimes listening to four short audiobooks in a row is exactly what I need to get back in a reading groove. If I’m feeling indecisive about what to listen to next, I usually choose a short audiobook. Audiobooks under three hours aren’t a big, scary commitment, which makes it easy to plunge in....

Alas, the B-list heroes haven’t enjoyed the same sort of treatment. I mean, sure, Ragman got some airtime on Arrow but there are so many kooky, weird, fascinating characters who usually come down on the side of the angels sitting there waiting for their turn to team-up with their more famous friends and/or cause trouble for same. I figured we’d get ahead of the game and introduce you to some of the contenders before the pop up randomly when the Superkid punches a hole in physics....

You know what that means. Correct. Lots of ghosts. And lots of ghost stories. I may even have some creative teams in mind to bring those stories to life as comics… The Fell Family Cemetery (1607 Shakespeare Street) The Fell brothers arrived to the Baltimore area in 1700, choosing a forested area near a waterfront that would eventually bear their name (there’s a debate as to whether the proper name for the neighborhood is Fells Point or Fell’s Point)....

Beach reads season means never having to say you’re sorry to that bitch who runs your book club and thinks “we should read David Copperfield just for fun” instead of The Bride Test. In the summer you can buy The Bride Test and all of her friends, aka The Kiss Quotient. Anyone who says otherwise has probably never sipped straight out of a pineapple before and/or ever felt joy....

The Haunting of Hill House meets I’ll Be Gone in the Dark in bestselling author Sarah Gailey’s new darkly gothic thriller. “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement—she’s come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he’d built for his family. There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the Crowder House....

But it turns out the face (and the photo from which it came) belongs to a talented photographer named Amanda. It does not in fact belong to the artist who designed it at HarperCollins, Gabriel Moreno. In a disturbing turn of events, we learned that a book about the importance of Afro-Latinx voices had a cover which stole the voice of a real life Afro-Latinx artist. A friend alerted Amanda to the startling resemblance between her and the book cover, which led the artist to tweet at Epic Reads, HarperCollins’s young adult fiction blog site, on June 30th....

Cat Book Ends: These rotund cats make me very happy and I just know they’d look adorable on my shelves. The White Way of Delight Enamel Pin: Celebrate Anne Shirley’s marvelous imagination with this lovely pin! Personalized Bookish Address Labels: Here’s an idea—write your friends snail mail to brighten their day, and use these adorable return address labels! Love Reading T-Shirt: This is a fun T-shirt, and perfect for all your recreational reading needs!...

The unforgettable instant New York Times bestseller now in a gorgeous new edition with bonus features including a ribbon bookmark, exclusive note from the author, and more. Read the novel The Washington Post calls “One of the most propulsive, compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory.” Victorian Hands Enamel Pin Set ($54): These literary quotes on a Victorian hands motif of enamel pins is an aesthetic I can get behind....

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Today’s edition of kids’ book deals is sponsored by Until Someone Listens by Estela Juarez with Lissette Norman, illustrated by Teresa Martínez

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Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Yen Audio, an imprint of Yen Press. Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse for $2.99 The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang for $1.99 The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch for $3.99 Anna K by Jenny Lee for $2.99 Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahavana Headley for $2.99 The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty by Laura Elena Donnelly for $2....