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Amazon Summer is on the horizon, and theres no better companion for a trip to the beach or a lazy day off than a good book. To get you ready for the (hopefully) relaxed months ahead, were sharing our recommendations for books to add to your reading pile. Whether you’re a fan of true crime, sci-fi, comic books, or non-fiction, weve got a book for you. 1. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the Worlds Largest Owl // Jonathan C. Slaght; $18 Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/Amazon Take a...

DKMS (NEW YORK) — A group of moms from across the country celebrated Mother’s Day this year with one wish — to find the bone marrow donors who will save their daughters’ lives. “If she gets the bone marrow transplant, she’ll be a normal baby,” Anessa Haden said of her 8-month-old daughter, True, who has been told by doctors she likely won’t live past the age of 3 without a matching donor. “A bone marrow transplant is literally her hope to a long life.” True was diagnosed thr...

Apologize for corona first: Anti-Asian hate endures on social media More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are still falling short of fully curbing anti-Asian rhetoric. Listen - 09:45 People hold up signs at a Stop Asian Hate rally in Chicago on March 27. Vincent Johnson/Xinhua via Getty Shirley Wangs phone wouldnt stop buzzing as the hurtful twe...

February 14, 2021 Virginia Dare Van Sciver, 88, of Harbeson passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Virginia was born in Rising Sun, Md., in 1932, daughter of the late Donald C. and Constance “Connie” Jones Graybeal, wife of the late Donald Van Sciver to whom she was married for 60 years, and mother of the late Jean Marie Van Sciver.  Virginia graduated from Rising Sun High School in 1949 and attended Salisbury State Teachers College. She met Don in 1951, then a seaman at B...

Meet the 9- and 11-Year-Old Sisters Whose Lives Christina Applegate Is Trying to Help Save People 12/21/2020 © Provided by People Courtesy The Van Sciver Family; Inset: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic This Christmas, two adorable sisters from Inglewood, California are asking for a bone marrow donor to save their lives — and Christina Applegate is using her voice to help find a match. Kimora, 11, and Kylie Van Sciver, 9, are often with their "second family" at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where...