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Dutton and Mr. Green are hoping that younger readers from a generation that grew up with the internet and smartphones might be receptive to the concept of a miniature flipbook.

Since Familius was first started in 2013 by former Gibbs Smith executive Christopher Robbins, the company has focused on publishing family-friendly books. “We create and sell titles that appeal to diverse families and encourage communication and focus on values that make families happy,” says Kate Farrell, the new marketing and public relations director. The publisher sells its list across a wide range of channels and last year saw gains in all markets—including chains, independent bookstores, gift stores, libraries, international, club, and specialty outlets.

That first book was printed as a black-and-white paperback in LaVergne. Twenty years later Lightning Source has plants in Fresno, Calif.; Fairfield, Ohio; and Breinigsville, Pa., in addition to its LaVergne location. At all sites, Lightning Source’s digital platform consists exclusively of HP PageWide HD color and mono presses, said Kelly Gallagher, v-p, content acquisition for the Ingram Content Group, allowing Lightning Source to print color and hardcover books.

Texas County Library now has e-Books and audio books available to download for Texas County Library patrons. To view the catalog and download, go to our website:texascountylibrary.lib.mo.us, click on e-books, or come by the library for assistance. Texas County Library cards are required.

A hungry dog sees a cake baking over coals. The dog drags the cake off to eat, inadvertently carrying one of the coals with it and setting fire to a neighbor’s haystack. How to assess the resulting property damage?

The images we have now published out of Yemen may be as unsettling as anything we have used before. But there is a reason we made this decision.

Christmas has a long list of naughty and nice traditions, some of which, like Christmas trees bedecked in dazzling lights, have been established for centuries, and others, such as the cheekily cute Elf on the Shelf, only joined the festivities in the 21st century.

Rachel Sherman’s Uneasy Street is a vital look at how the rich see themselves. Sherman interviewed 50 wealthy New Yorkers — many of whom deny being rich in the first place, or prefer euphemisms like “comfortable” or “ultra-high net worth individual” — and found that many of them are wracked with anxiety.

Bonnie Dan, 75, had her first knee replacement in 2016 and her second in 2017. Her doctor used a technology to manufacture custom replacements with 3-D printing. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff

Accountant by day, video games enthusiast by night.  Somewhere in between all of that, I’m a husband, dad, and generally a giant man-child, too.  If a game is all about action, there’s a safe bet I’m playing it.  I started laying waste to virtual worlds as a youngin’ on the ol’ Atari and haven’t stopped since.

An American Marriage is a moving novel about a marriage over time, but it’s also a timely story about race in America. The novel’s central relationship is between Celestial and Roy, an artist and an executive who together are the perfect image of a young, newlywed black American couple in love. But their idyllic life is interrupted when Roy is charged for a crime he didn’t commit and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

However. What Rombauer Becker did bring was an attention to detail, interest in whole grains and health foods, and a desire to make the Joy encyclopedic. Enter the squirrel illustration. Rombauer Becker wanted it to be a “deserted island cookbook” as her heirs would say—able to address even the possible lack of a butcher. The gruesome yet sadly hilarious squirrel illustration came along in the ’50s, preceding an expanded chapter about cooking game (including opossum, bear, raccoon, muskrat, woodchuck, beaver, and peccary).