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“You can’t ask for a better endorsement of your creation than when the person reading your book is having a better time than the child being read to. Janice’s infectious laughter was an absolute delight!” wrote Smith, a New Zealand-based musician and author, in a recent email. “Remember, this viral sensation came about because a grandmother read a BOOK to her grandson, albeit a very special grandmother.”

“Every now and then on Instagram, it’s cool to see someone cooking at home out of your book,” Stupak says. “But the deeper meaning is that you’re renting out space in their brain. You’re putting your ideas into their head, which has value. Tremendous value.”

Now in the wake of attacks against immigrants, she’s decided to share her perspective on her trek from Mexico to America with her then two-month-old son, Kelly, when she was 25. In Dreamers, she uses spare, lyrical language to describe the love between a mother and a son: "I dreamed of you, then you appeared. Together we became Amor-Love-Amor. Resplendent life, you and I."

A social media presence linked to activism can also present knotty challenges to YA authors. “I’m careful that what I’m saying on social media is sensitive to the full range of my readers, and is aimed at creating a positive force in the world,” said Ms. Han. “I don’t want to make teenagers who have conservative parents feel embarrassed about their families.” For Ms. de la Cruz, the label “political” applied to her writing makes her uncomfortable. ”I get a little shy about saying my books are political because I don’t like didactic books and don’t intend to write one. I want to tell stories and if they enlighten, great,” she said.

Still, the incentive for this move isn’t just a way to make fans happy, it is also working to combat the pirating world when it comes to scan translations of current manga in Japan. As Polygon explains, this free platform service with affordable premium access was done to provide “an official and trustworthy source as an alternative to pirate sites.”

Compendium, which is better known in the gift market than in the publishing industry, has landed for the first time on PW’s list of fast-growing publishers after 2017 sales jumped 38% from 2015. Its title output went up 21% in the past three years, with 35 frontlist releases in 2017, up from 29 in 2015. The Seattle-based company specializes in publishing children’s books, gift books, guest books, notebooks, and journals, as well as greeting cards, boxed note cards, stationery, and pop-up cards, although trade books do account for a portion of its overall sales.

Whisk together eggs, half-and-half, vanilla, Grand Marnier and salt. Pour evenly over bread. Cover and chill at least 8 hours and up to one day.

Good e-Reader recently conducted research and polled over 1,200 people on ebook pricing. 65% said they wanted ebooks to be cheaper and they are too expensive. 12% said that the price is right, but they would not buy ebooks if the price increased even further and 8% said they no longer buy ebooks and exclusively borrow them from the library.

“This can also be understandable without much context,” Wimpfheimer said. “Pretty much any Western reader is familiar with the idea in Jewish tradition of God giving the Ten Commandments.”

What Oliva didn’t know was that her friends planned to compile 50 of her recipes and have them published in a cookbook, “From the Kitchen of Gloria Oliva.”

The story unfolds from the perspective of a curious, irrepressible 4-year-old boy named TJ, who loves music and playing ball, and navigates a neighborhood where gun violence, police brutality, alcoholism and drug addiction are looming threats — an outside world that even his warm home life with loving parents can’t shield him from.

Because I am new to the public library environment, I’m still trying to figure this out. In a general sense, I think that special collections ARE the future of librarianship (in terms of collection material, not services). As other resources become more universally available and more homogeneous, it’s the unique, local collections that will become more significant, more central to their respective communities. On the other hand, I worry about the financial stability of public libraries in less affluent districts than the one where I work. Special collections are expensive to maintain and complicated to explain, and I think this makes them vulnerable to administrations struggling with budget cuts. (Or the library can’t afford any special collections or archives to begin with.) One of the things that I hope young and/or early career librarians are learning is how to advocate: for themselves, their collections, their patrons’ needs. I cannot stress enough how important this is for any special collections program to succeed. You need to be ready at any moment to explain your budget requests, argue for your value, defend your facilities requirements, and translate your librarian-ese into language an executive director or trustee can understand.