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0 comments There are plenty of reasons to be excited for 2021. Not least among them: all the amazing books headed our way. While you all know we love a comic, this list nods to all the prose titles we cannot wait to get our hands on. From radical romance to dark thrillers to reimaginings of classic literature, this list has it all. And if you’re a fan of some of our favorite fantasy series like the Grishaverse, Kingdom of Souls, and Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant Balzer + Bray Tessa ...

Scranton is an interesting place. It has for years been considered the quintessential has-been: once an industrial giant, the capital of the anthracite coal industry, then a significant center of clothing manufacturing and on to a place that had no particular industrial strength. It became a “rust belt” shrinking city in a shrinking part of the country. But the image doesn’t really hold up. The city’s several academic institutions were joined 10 years ago by the Commonwealth...

Melissa de la Cruz. Roaring Brook, Dec. 1 $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-31121-4. Ages 10–14. In the first book in Cruz’s The Chronicles of Never After fantasy series, Filomena Jefferson-Cho, 12, is a huge fan of epic fairy tale mash-up series Never After, and she’s anticipating the release of the 13th and final volume—until she learns that the long-deceased author apparently never wrote it. When the saga’s hero, Jack the Giant Stalker, appears in her hometown pursued by an ogre, she di...

Q & A with Angela Dominguez By Patricia J. Murphy | Dec 21, 2020 Angela Dominguez is the award-winning author and author-illustrator of a number of picture books, including Mary Had a Little Llama and Mango, Abuela, and Me (the latter written by Meg Medina), both Pura Belpré Illustration Honor winners, and the Stella Díaz series. Her forthcoming books include Stella Díaz Dreams Big and I Love You Baby Burrito . Dominguez is also an instructor at the Academy of Art U...

By Michael M. Jones | Dec 18, 2020 For as long as she can remember, Van Hoang has been a writer, so the release of Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Roaring Brook) is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. “When I was a kid, I had this notebook,” she says. “I was obsessed about not having enough pages, so I’d write these stories and then go back and erase them, so I’d have more room to keep writing. We probably had plenty of notebooks, but I was afraid of running out...

Nursing grads in Scranton get ready to work After an interesting school year, nursing students are ready to get to work in a major healthcare crisis. Author: Stacy Lange Updated: 6:30 PM EST December 16, 2020 The licensed practical nursing students from the Lackawanna Career Technology Center in Scranton had to stand six feet apart waiting for their diplomas and graduated without any friends or family present. Not the graduation ceremony they expected, but these ...

The last two tri-county area wind farm projects in the Article 10 siting process — both with significant public opposition — have been withdrawn from the process. LOWVILLE — The last two tri-county area wind farm projects in the Article 10 siting process — both with significant public opposition — have been withdrawn from the process. Some community groups against these projects see the withdrawal as a triumph while others as a shrewd move to change to the new siting process ...

LOWVILLE — The last two tri-county area wind farm projects in the Article 10 siting process — both with significant public opposition — have been withdrawn from the process. Some community groups against these projects see the withdrawal as a triumph while others as a shrewd move to change to the new siting process they believe is less strict and transparent. James A. Muscato II, of Young Sommer Attorneys at Law in Albany, electronically filed a letter to the Siting Board stating...