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Teachers assign summer reading, but what do they read on their vacations? Linda Nathan shares her favorites.
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David Gessner has had enough of elevated language and warbling folkies singing about Mother Earth. It’s time to kick out the jams.
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A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles.
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June 13 marks the 40th anniversary of the day the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, and the federal government has finally decided to declassify them.
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Judge Nancy Gertner discusses her life as a defense lawyer, what it meant to her to defend women, and the different paths Gertner and Justice Sotomayor took to becoming judges.
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Margaret Regan, author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, will once again appear at the Tucson Festival of Books. Her appearance at the 2010 festival was broadcast on BookTV; you can watch it on YouTube. Regan will be a panelist in two different sessions. For “Borderlines,” Regan will join Phil…
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Terry Galloway talks about her cochlear implant surgery and how it felt to hear her mother’s voice for the first time in 51 years.
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In an excerpt from her book, Terry Galloway discusses lip-reading, special education, and being Little-d deaf.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea.
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