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We are a halfhour to the trading day. Julie hyman has the latest. We are seeing stocks up about a half percent here if you look at the s p 500. Other averages rising about the same amount. Optimism going into the minutes. If anyone is looking for more direction from the minutes, that might be wishful thinking. One thing driving the gains is energy. Energy is the best performing here as we get out the gate. Only Telecom Stocks are lower but very slightly now. Energy has been volatile. We have got oil prices on the rise. The American Petroleum institute according to someone familiar says it surv...

700,000 books were selfpublished, twice as many books are produced by independent authors who put them online and have something to say. Now, you might claim theres a lot of garbage among that 700,000 books but i think theres a lot of good stuff as well. So i really feel that if you look at the Publishing Industry i dont know if you would agree, we are witnessing a transformation in its structure so some of the middle, intermediates are moving out. And some of the public is moving in in strange ways. It used to be said that the books are written for the general reader. Now they are written by ...

Thats pretty darn good. Thats history made. I think we can drink to that. Good morning, everyone. Really, think about whats happened the last two weeks. This week we nominate the first woman, right, in our history . Youre not going to make a joke, are you . Last week, willie geist, the first Reality Tv Show started. Im not sure theyre equal in merit. We got here with that big dnc leak story. This is huge for this country. 240 years and we now have our first woman. Shes jumping up because i brought my pet cat from connecticut here. You know, mike, whats so fascinating about the United States, t...

From the July/August 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

Award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome discusses the research she did for her new historical fiction YA novel, For Lamb.