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Bookstores adapt to pandemic with online orders, shipping Follow Us Question of the Day By RYAN PATTERSON - Associated Press - Monday, February 15, 2021 EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) - Margaret Leonard and Jill Heinke Moen initially expected their store to close for just a little while. It was last March, and like many others at the time, they figured the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would be relatively short-lived and that their business, Dotters Books, could soon reopen to in-person customers. When it was clear ...

Feb 12, 2021 EAST LIVERPOOL — MUSE Group will resume on February 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Ceramics. MUSE is a reading and discussion group that meets on the third Tuesday of the month and is free and open to all. Participants discuss the current book and other books that they are reading. February’s book is Promise by Minrose Gwin. On Palm Sunday, 1936 a massive funnel cloud destroyed the cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi and killed over 200 people. But that number includes only the number of whites who died…the African American community was not counted. Promise recou...

Former Twitter executive Robin Sloan has created an interactive visualization that shows how many people are on the waitlist to "borrow" a digital copy of a book (known as "holds") and compares that against how many "copies" a library actually owns.

Rebecca Hall’s ‘Passing’ and the Legacy of Colourism in Hollywood A Sundance highlight, the director’s debut is a nuanced exploration of lives either side of the ‘colour line’ The 2021 Sundance film festival took its commitment to diversity seriously. Fifty percent of its films were made by female directors, 51 percent by people of colour and 15 percent by LGBTQ+ filmmakers. From Summer of Soul, Questlove’s documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival to Ailey, a look at visionary choreographer Alvin Ailey, the programme featured Black stories filled w...

Programme Name: Between The Covers - TX: n/a - Episode: Between The Covers - portraits (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Sara Cox - (C) Cactus TV - Photographer: -. PRESENTER Sara Cox has said that she is "over the moon" that her book show is returning to TV this Spring. The Bolton-born broadcaster will be returning to host the second series of Between the Covers when it airs on BBC Two. Each week, Sara and her celebrity book group will share their thoughts on two books of the week - a newly published novel and a big hitter from 2020 - and select their favourite books of all time