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Planting People Growing Justice Press Announces Exciting Lineup Of New Children's Book Releases For 2025
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) St. Paul, MN - Planting People Growing Justice Press (PPGJ Press), an award-winning, Black woman-owned publisher committed to inspiring the next generation of leaders through literacy, is proud to announce a dynamic slate of new...
A Posthumous Book Launch
The East Hampton Star - New York
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Tony Bechara’s book “Annotations of Color Schemes” will have a posthumous launch at LongHouse. The next iteration of the LongHouse Talks series, set for Sunday afternoon at 3, will be a posthumous celebration of “Tony Bechara: Annotations of Color...
Preston urban explorer’s first book shines light on derelict buildings in Merseyside
Blog Preston
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August 27, 2025
Fruit Exchange in Liverpool features in Derelict Merseyside Pic: James Gooch Southport Grand features in Derelict Merseyside Pic: James Gooch Between them, David and James had all the photos they needed, so they set about working on the words. “It...
Anthropic’s Great Book Heist: Do the Ends Justify the Means When It Comes to Training AI?
JD Supra - California
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August 27, 2025
Robin Hood, the legendary antihero, is beloved for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. But what if he stole from the rich and then gave to his own bank account, with the explicit intent of writing checks to the poor at some undefined...
Decatur Book Festival announces 20th anniversary lineup
Rough Draft Atlanta - Georgia
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August 27, 2025
Support local news in ATL Courtesy Decatur Book Festival The Decatur Book Festival (DBF) has announced the full lineup for its 20th anniversary even on Oct. 3-4 in downtown Decatur. Free and open to the public, the festival will bring together...
Did Anthropic AI steal your book? You can sign up for updates on the class action suit.
Literary Hub
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August 27, 2025
Here’s my best impression of a late night ad for a law firm: Do you think your book may have been stolen by an AI company? Then you might be entitled to be part of a class action lawsuit! The case in question is Bartz v. Anthropic, where...
My 11 nuggets from Femi Otedola’s book, by Azuh Arinze
Eagle Online
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August 27, 2025
Very few books, I must confess, have generated as much excitement – long before their release and even after – as Femi Otedola’s “Making It Big”. And the reason is obvious: many readers also want to learn how to “make it big” like the son of the...
Book Review: Dry the Rain by Richard Leise
Independent Book Review
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August 27, 2025
Dry the Rain by Richard Leise Genre: Literary Fiction ISBN: 9798991761413 Print Length: 228 pages Publisher: Picket Fire Reviewed by Melissa Suggitt There are books that beg to be understood and books that dare you to try. Dry the Rain belongs...
Playful Children’s Book Serves as Early Tool for Detecting Color Blindness
My Modern Met - California
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August 26, 2025
It’s estimated that there are about 300 million people with color blindness around the world. Despite the significant population with the condition, it can be difficult—and costly—to diagnose, especially in young children. But Navneet Education,...
Five Indie Publishers Amplifying Arab
AnOther
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August 27, 2025
Writer, activist and Slow Factory founder Céline Semaan shares five female Arab indie publishers who are fuelling liberation and dismantling oppressive systems across the world August 27, 2025 “I’ve long understood the power of storytelling to cut...
New Novel, ‘From the Dictators’ Shadows: A Family's Journey,’ Offers an Immigrant’s Story of Civil War, Resistance and Reinvention
The Denver Gazette - Colorado
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Debut novel by Maritza Durán launches from Pegasus Publishers NEW YORK, NY, August 1, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- What does it mean to lose a homeland—and to rebuild a life in its absence? Author Maritza Durán explores this in her debut novel " From the...
The first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
GamesRadar+
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August 27, 2025
Seemingly stocked well with candelabras and betrayal, gothic co-op game Eyes of Hellfire is launching today in early access as the first multiplayer title from publisher Blumhouse. Dublin-based studio Gambrinous first announced Eyes of Hellfire...
Publishers say 'mindset around short stories shifting’ as readers embrace slim fiction
The Bookseller
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© Shutterstock Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again”. You've hit...
Santo Domingo Book Fair returns September 25 to Plaza de la Cultura
Dominican Today
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Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Culture announced the 27th Santo Domingo International Book Fair (FILSD 2025), to be held from September 25 to October 5 at the Juan Pablo Duarte Cultural Plaza. This year’s edition will honor renowned historian...
Islamic Ministry Launches ‘Ma’rifa 2025’ Book Fair
Miadhu Daily
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The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has launched the “Ma’rifa 2025” book exhibition, uniting publishers and booksellers to provide the public with reading materials at special discounted rates. Organised by the ministry’s Publication Unit, the...
OPINION: New Clinton book: interesting, unique and very readable
Siloam Springs Herald-Leader - Arkansas
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August 27, 2025
It seems well-known journalists, famous biographers or even the subject of a biography themselves may not always write the best revealing and honest assessment of a life in the public. This time it took the girl next door Carolyn Yeldell Staley...
How Gregory Galloway’s crime novel ‘All We Trust’ emerged from personal loss
Sioux City Journal - Iowa
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Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register Gregory Galloway wasn’t sure he could write anything after the death of his father. “He lived to be 94, so if you can have that, he had the sort of demise that he wanted,” says Galloway, recalling that he...
Transworld poaches Bella Osborne in four-book deal
The Bookseller
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Award-winning romance author Bella Osborne is moving to Transworld after the publisher acquired four new novels for its Bantam Fiction imprint. The world rights deal was originally secured by Francesca Best, previously editorial director at...
Pascal Bouquillard Releases New Dystopian Novel - Eden: The Final Solution
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN- BookBuzz) What happens when those in power write the rules meant to limit their own authority? Author Pascal Bouquillard dares to answer this chilling question in his powerful new dystopian novel, Eden: The Final Solution (ISBN:...
"Let there be peace!": Book of Pope Leo XIV’s Discourses to be Published August 27
ACI Africa
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August 26, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, 26 August, 2025 / 12:27 pm (ACI Africa). On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo’s discourses from the first months of his pontificate in a book signed by the pontiff titled “Let There Be Peace! Words to the...