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Nilopar Uddin's debut novel, 'The Halfways' (HQ, 2022) takes place across London, Wales, New York, and Sylhet, and focuses on the Bangladeshi immigrant experience

Books are not teaching kids to be a certain way. books for kids are providing safe spaces for kids to explore their identity. and not just their identities. >> reporter: in 2019, hart wrote a book for adults. it is a guide to finding inclusive books for kids. the idea came from the missing stories in her own childhood. >> i think that that representation is critical. i mean, i grew up not even aware that anybody besides me had two moms because it wasnt in literature, wasnt talked about. >> repor...

A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and Rainbow’s End. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War. Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by scie...