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Image: ALA The American Library Association is currently holding its annual midwinter meeting and exhibits conference, and part of the event is its Youth Media Awards—which houses the Alex Awards, a slate of prizes that are handed out “to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18,” from the prior year. The ALA just announced this year’s Alex Award winners, and it includes a number of science fiction and fantasy titles. Here’s the list of this year’s winners: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Saga Press/Gallery Books, an im...

AP HORRIBLE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Cemetery workers bury COVID-19 victims outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, last summer. Brazil recorded the world's second-highest number of coronavirus deaths this year, behind the U.S. As if the region's coronavirus catastrophe wasn't enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too. As it was for the rest of the world, COVID-19 was overwhelmingly the top story of 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean. And the most tragic. Brazil alone has recorded the world's second-highest number of COVID deaths, behind the Uni...