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Books | Seventy years later, we still ‘Make Way For Ducklings’

Books | Seventy years later, we still ‘Make Way For Ducklings’ | Seattle Times Newspaper. An appreciation of Robert McCloskey’s children’s classic, published 70 years ago this year. Generations of children have delighted in the story of how Mr. and Mrs. Mallard first find the perfect place in Boston to start their family, and how […]

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Audience Picks: Top 100 ‘Killer Thrillers’

Audience Picks: Top 100 ‘Killer Thrillers’ : NPR: The results are in! The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our ‘Killer Thrillers’ poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code,

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New Biography Claims Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy : NPR

New Biography Claims Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy : NPR: Another offering from National Public Radio, this one about the new biography of poet Emily Dickinson that opens the door on a number of skeletons in the Dickinson family closet.

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Scout, Atticus & Boo

Scout, Atticus & Boo – CSMonitor.com: Yvonne Zipp, in Christian Science Monitor, reviews a new book issued to honor the fiftieth anniversary–July 11–of the publication of Harper Lee’s iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird: “‘Scout, Atticus & Boo’ is a lovely celebration of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ And if, in the end, many of the

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In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic

In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic – NYTimes.com: By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and other works under the name Mark Twain.

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Looking Glass for the Mind: 350 Years of Books for Children

Looking Glass for the Mind: 350 Years of Books for Children http://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/exhibit.html The University of Washington Digital Collection of children’s books starts off with a wonderful piece that touches on the beloved memories children’s books bring back for so many, but also on the reasons why a university library would collect children’s books. Several of

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Mississippi Plantation Diary That Inspired William Faulkner Discovered

Mississippi Plantation Diary That Inspired William Faulkner Discovered – NYTimes.com: The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel ‘Go Down, Moses’ comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with their ‘scarred and cracked backs’ and ‘yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink’ — proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now,

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