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Our summer reading preview for kids includes new fiction and nonfiction, books in verse, picture books and novels for middle-graders and young adults.

If you're passionate about food, you'll wanted to read these 12 food novels, featuring characters with lives centered around food

“Where I Belong” by Marcia Argueta Mickelson and “Fifteen Hundred Miles From the...

Reviews of the 2022 Pura Belpré YA Award winner and honorees.

The best books of 2021, picked by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Best books in fiction, mystery, romance, science fiction, nonfiction, memoir, childrens books, and more.

If you’re ready to kick back, relax and dive into some must-read books this summer, librarians with the Forsyth County Public Library and staff at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem have some suggestions. Each year, the Forsyth County Public Library hosts a summer reading program to give Forsyth County residents of all ages the chance to sign up and participate in the program, Brian Hart, library director of Forsyth County Public Library, said. Participants gain entries into a prize drawing by eit...

By Sharyn Vane Special to the American-Statesman Pen feels most at home when she’s baking or cooking for her community. Xander’s trying to find his own version of home, far from where he was born. How the two discover where they truly belong is at the heart of Austin author Laekan Zea Kemp’s debut young-adult novel, “Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet” (Little, Brown, $18.99). The pair’s budding romance is part of a powerfully layered coming-of-age story that also delves into identi...

Jan 29, 2021 Helped by big gains in downloadable audio sales, overall sales of audiobooks posted eight consecutive years of double-digit increases through 2019, according to the Audio Publishers Association’s annual sales survey (conducted by independent research firm InterQ). And 2020 looks like it will have a similarly sunny result. In its monthly StatShot report, the Association of American Publishers said sales of downloadable audio from trade publishers were up 15.2% through the fir...