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MACOG meeting set for Wednesday

This week we look at a feminist retelling of Morgan Le Fay, family bonds and a gothic thriller that will keep you at the edgr of your seat.

Local briefs include:• BZA to meet Monday• Library events set for August• Field Day set for August 16

When the Next Big Idea Club launched in 2018, the centerpiece of its offerings was a box subscription. It still offers that service, but has company has shifted gears, now operating as an “audio-first company.”

International Read to Me Day, one of many literacy-forward reading campaigns, is celebrated each year on March 19.

This week in Book Bites we review a thriller about a serial killer judge, a tribute to Amy Winehouse by her best friend, and the novel that's about to set Netflix alight.

The Ben West Palm, an Autograph Collection Hotel located in Florida, is here for the bibliophile in all of us. In February, the hotel announced its new "Book Butler" program, a complimentary guest offering in partnership with local retailer The Palm Beach Book Store. a Book Butler holding a try of books Image zoom Credit: Jente Gees With the butler service, guests at the hotel can order a book on de...

Eileen Evon, Community Outreach Chair for FRRL, says the idea came to the organization when they realized how many families were in need of partaking in the meal pick-ups. “Knowing more kids than ever were going to schools to pick up meals got us thinking about what else they might need to feed their brains and hearts and imaginations during this crazy time,” Evon wrote in an email to Reston Now. “We believed we, as Friends of the Library, could and should help.” With access to librarie...