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Ah, 2020. The year we all stayed home. We dressed down. We Netflixed. We baked banana bread. We Zoomed. And we READ. As someone who has spent the last few years recommending new reads on Instagram every Sunday (#psiread, @priyankaskhanna), I am happy to report a significant rise in my DMs asking for book suggestions, over the past few months. This year, as we stayed in, isolated from friends and families, and life as we knew it, words provided an escape—to alternate realities. And boy, was that just what the doctor ordered. When I suggested this idea to the team, I realised that I would hav...

Booksellers unanimously recommend the Barack Obama memoir, A Promised Land. Whether speaking or writing, Obama knows how to turn a phrase. In A Promised Land, he colorfully captures his early life and political career, then goes on to chronicle his 2004 Senatorial campaign, his presidential campaign and his first presidential term. Slide 2 of 10 Readers' Books store owner Andy Weinberger can sell them and write them too. His second installation in a three-part murder mystery series, A Slide 3 of 10 Jude Sales gives high praise to Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's fictionalization of Shakespeare’...

The top picks ranged from best-selling novels to young adult and children's books. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 10:17 AM EST December 29, 2020 BUFFALO, N.Y. — What were the most requested and popular books at the Buffalo and Erie County public libraries in 2020? The top picks ranged from best-selling novels to young adult and children's books. More than 390,000 library patrons use the 37 locations within the Buffalo and Erie County public library system and bookmobile. Here's the list for 2020: Most requested book Adult Fiction – most popular title Where the...

Today Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%.. Tonight Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Updated: March 27, 2021 @ 7:15 pm

For the past several years I’ve been doing a year-end wrap-up of some of the best books I’ve read during the year. Usually it’s a top 10 list with a few extras thrown in. (One of last year’s honorable mentions was As Bright As Heaven By Susan Meisner. It was more timely than I ever could have imagined, because its topic is the 1918 pandemic. As we live out our own pandemic, I would highly recommend this one again.) This year, I’ve had lots of time to read since there wasn’t much else I could do. (No commuting and many of my regular activities curtailed by COVID-19.) So I’m pres...