The Bundu Bunch Get to Right Two Wrongs by Allan Low Genre: Children’s Picture Book ISBN: 9781739081331 Print Length: 32 pages Buy from Amazon Reviewed by Toni Woodruff An empowering story about a resilient few getting the sweetness they deserve I dare you not to love these kids. The Bundu Bunch is a group of […]
Book news itself wasn’t something we did much when Book Riot first started, but it has become and important part of what we do: from the Book Riot Podcast to Today in Books to Literary Activism and so on. Some stories come and go, but there are some stories that are part of fundamental questions […]
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The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa on December 7, 2021 Genres: Fiction / Animals, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Magical Realism Pages: 208 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Books have tremendous power.” Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves […]
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The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa on December 7, 2021 Genres: Fiction / Animals, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Magical Realism Pages: 208 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Books have tremendous power.” Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves […]
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore on July 2, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Psychological Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is a book that has a little bit of everything so I think this book […]
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Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross on April 4, 2023 Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Romance Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I think there is a magical link between you and me. A bond that not even distance can break.” When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, […]
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The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson on April 30, 2024 Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State, History / United States / 19th Century, History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Pages: 592 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Where are my history buffs that also like a good […]
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On September 13, 2022, Iran’s morality police arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini for having too much hair protruding from her hijab (“Members of the Gasht-e Ershad then grabbed Amini and began forcing her into their van”). Three days later, she was dead in Kasra Hospital, another victim of the country’s re-education centers. Photos of Amini in […]
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THE MITHAI BOX IS NOT EMPTY
Young Ria and her faithful dog, Cheetah, are busy preparing to welcome Baba and Dadi, who are flying in from India. Ria greets them with warm hugs, and they ply her with presents and a mithai box bursting with her favorite sweets. As Ria makes an offering of a ladoo to the god Ganesha, her […]
Editor Grisham points out that as “mankind’s first crime,” murder holds a fascination for readers that no other misdeed can match. So it’s appropriate that no less than 18 of the 20 stories include a killing, contemplated or committed. But murder is not always the main event. Often the tricky part is figuring out how […]