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Florida-based company wins bid to buy Diamond Comic out of bankruptcy

Baltimore Sun 26 Mar 2025
Steve Geppi, the founder of Geppi Family Enterprises, Diamond’s parent, began collecting comic books as a child and opened one of the area’s first comic book stores, Geppi’s Comic World, in the basement of an Edmondson Avenue house in 1974.
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Pasco to offer children’s library card to help parents manage access

Tampa Bay Times 26 Mar 2025
Pasco County unveiled a new policy Tuesday designed to give parents more control over the books their children can access in public libraries ... It will not include access to electronic material, young adult or adult books.
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98 years late: A library book due in November 1926 was just returned to an Ohio library

Times-Gazette - Ashland 26 Mar 2025
Smith said the library, which was established in 1853, has 4 million books in its collection, although some are reference only, meaning patrons have to read them at the library and cannot check them out.
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'It's child grooming': Brevard's school board bans 3 young adult novels for sexual content

Florida Today 26 Mar 2025
Tasked to review three young adult novels for possible removal, Brevard Public Schools' book review committee was in agreement ... "These are books that are in our collection that received a formal objection.".
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New Contemplative Work Explores the Intersection of Faith, Morality, and the American Experience In an ...

GetNews 26 Mar 2025
Set against the backdrop of an ever-evolving America, it challenges readers to contemplate the broader consequences of personal and collective actions ... Her Audio book shall be released soon on Kindle.
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Writing books for Filipino children

The Manila Times 26 Mar 2025
TAMBAYANG Pambata, a collective of independent publishers of children's books and self-published authors, joined the 2025 Philippine Book Festival held recently at SM Megamall ... writing their own books.
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From the Kitchen: Search now underway for Canadian Cook Book

Moosejaw Today 26 Mar 2025
I went through my stash of my much loved older cookbooks but unfortunately the Canadian Cook Book was not in my collection. I am wondering if I had it but shared it with others when I donated to the hospital book sale a few years ago.
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Grondahl: RPI architecture students deconstruct William Kennedy

Times Union 26 Mar 2025
They were impressed by the numerous literary awards, photographs of famous authors and thousands of books in Kennedy’s collection. They designed the exterior brick of their buildings to resemble hardcover books laid on their sides.
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Fifth student receives full ride to college on writers scholarship

The Enterprise-Tocsin 26 Mar 2025
There were plenty of times where I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay for gas … much less books and all of those things ... Successful authors continue to inspire here, as pictured here at Lemuria Books, where she works.
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'Veera Dheera Sooran' box office collection: Chiyaan Vikram starrer surpasses Rs 3 crore in pre-sales

The Times of India 26 Mar 2025
According to a trade report from Cinetrak, 'Veera Dheera Sooran 2' has collected approximately Rs 3 crore worldwide in pre-bookings for the opening day, indicating strong early demand.
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‘Hands-on history’ highlighted by new director as Renfrew turns 50 in Waynesboro

Public Opinion 26 Mar 2025
She previously was curator and collections manager at the Lomas Center ... It will be filled with things for kids to engage with, such as historic toys, books, blocks and farm items ... “Every item in our collection is a different conversation,” she said.
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How Chennai police use sneakers and track pants to solve serial robbery case

The Times of India 26 Mar 2025
... cybercrime officials.The team led by the Chennai Airport Inspector Pandi, who monitored the suspects, was assigned to collect the details of those who booked flight tickets between 8 am and 10.30 am.
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Norman Lewis’s secret 20th century

New Statesman 26 Mar 2025
In “A Quiet Evening in Huehuetenango”, the title piece in this engrossing and definitive collection edited by the founder of Eland Books, John Hatt, Lewis has fled from “the bleak depths of an ...
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Anime legend Sunao Katabuchi shares an extended look at his next film The Mourning Children

Polygon 26 Mar 2025
The real-life literary figure Sei Shōnagon, who is best known for authoring a collection of essays and musings known as “The Pillow Book,” will be a prominent character in the story, if not the film’s main protagonist ... ....
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