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The Batavia Public Library has chosen the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei as this years selection for One Book, One Batavia.

In this expertly crafted graphic novel, recent high school grad Nao, born in Japan and raised in the American Midwest, spends a gap year in Tokyo. “Only half” Japanese and lacking language fluency, she struggles to fit in. Nao’s housemates include two other non-natives, Korean Hyejung and Chinese Singaporean Tina...

This year’s crop of comics art included experimental storytelling and flights of stylistic fancy.

The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.

Megan Klein-Hewett, Ames Public Library Special to the Ames Tribune Each May the library honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Heritage months provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our own cultural experiences or learn from experiences that are unlike our own. Here are some great books to help you view different e Asian American experience through literature. Take some time this month to explore the world through these titles! You are probably familiar with Celeste N...

Written by RPS Superintendent of Schools, Susie DaSilva A Few Bits... Board of Education Budget News The Town held its Annual Town Meeting on Saturday April 24.  It was great to see and talk to everyone in person after all these months!  During the meeting the Town voted to move the Board of Education’s fiscal 2021-2022 general operating budget as approved by the Board of Finance as well as the Town’s fiscal 2021-2022 general operating budget forward to referendum.   The Town Refe...

A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking. Image – iStockphoto: R Classen Layouts Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place. Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, ...