June is Minnesota’s wettest month, and this year it lived up to its billing in spades. So much rain fell during this year’s sixth month that rivers all across Minnesota jumped their banks and massive flooding swept away homes, drowned downtowns, swamped parks and farm fields, and closed roads. Though precipitation fell on 16 of […]
Crazy Rich Asians writer Kevin Kwan is back with his latest look at the glamorous lives of the rich and famous… Fiction 1. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill is published in hardback by HQ. Available now Be transported back in time to flumps, mix-tapes, Tamagotchis and ‘Hollaback Girl’ […]
The South Carolina State Board of Education now has the power to regulate the books on schools’ shelves, instead of local school districts. A new regulation, which gained automatic approval on Tuesday, will now govern the selection of materials in schools and school libraries and dictate what is “age and developmentally appropriate” and “educationally suitable” […]
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As we head towards summer holidays, it’s time to think about your beach reads… Fiction 1. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley is published in hardback by HarperCollins. Available now A Midsummer party at an age-old manor house on the Dorset coast turns deadly in the latest murder mystery from @lucyfoleytweets. Laced with atmosphere and […]
Celebrated writer James Patterson has finished a thrilling book from late writer Michael Crichton… Fiction 1. Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg is published in hardback by Tinder Press. Available now Spoilt Creatures, a debut novel by Amy Twigg, follows Iris, a 32-year-old single and lonely woman who is drawn to Hazel, a resident of a […]
BEIJING (AP) — A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four discarded books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station: They were confidential military documents. The country’s Ministry of State Security told the story in a social media post on Thursday, praising the retired […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to affirm a lower court order that blocked key parts of an Iowa law banning books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms. The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved in 2023, […]
The US job market showed a softer side in April when just 175,000 jobs were added, marking one of the weakest months in the past three years. It was also well shy of economists’ expectations (for 235,000 jobs added) and sharply lower than the 315,000 net gain for March. It’s all relative, though. The 175,000 […]
Former Boris Johnson aide, Cleo Watson, is back with her latest political bonkbuster… Fiction 1. Going Home by Tom Lamont is published in hardback by Sceptre. Available June 6th (Sceptre/PA) Named as one of the Observer’s Debut Novels of 2024, Tom Lamont’s touching story is about three men who find themselves looking after a toddler […]
Claim: A photo from May 2024 authentically depicts an Israeli soldier posing in front of burning books at a university library in Gaza. Rating: Rating: True Context: It is unclear whether the soldier pictured set the books on fire or another person present — such as whoever took the photo — started the blaze. The […]
A series of thunderstorms hit the Treasure Valley on Tuesday evening, bringing with them a record number of lightning strikes. Over a 24-hour period, Ada County saw 195 lightning strikes, a record for May 28. It was the third-highest number of strikes detected in the county for any day since the National Weather Service in […]