Veteran educator and author Margaret Stenerson announces the release of two powerful books that shine a light on the transformative power of knowledge, curiosity, and lifelong learning: My Noble Profession (Third Edition) and The Joy of Knowing: Everyday Wonders and Science Stories. Together, these titles offer a heartfelt tribute to teaching as a calling, and …
Audiobook companies like to publish numbers with two kinds of finding. First, that the audiobook market is expanding. And second that they as a company are responsible for a large amount of the good stuff they have just demonstrated. Spotify has so far been the leader in this field, but Frankfurt Book Fair saw Audible …
If you have audiobooks on Audible through ACX, you have a decision to make in the next twelve weeks. From 1 January 2027, Audible’s legacy payment model ends. Every title still on the old terms on that date must either… The post ACX and Audible’s New Payment Model: What You Need to Decide Before 31 …
One, two, three black dots against a bright yellow background quickly grow into lots of dots before progressing into dots of different sizes. And then one of the black dots changes color to red. Turning the page reveals that a red backdrop has replaced the yellow background; a yellow dot appears, courtesy of a small …
The New Year—not Jan. 1, but the Lunar New Year that’s celebrated in many Asian countries—“is not just a number… it’s also an animal. Each year is paired with one of twelve incredible animals.” The animal associated with a person’s birth year provides hints about personality and talents, relationships and preferences, lucky numbers and favorite …
Bored with life in Toronto, attractive young Priscilla Tempest left Canada for London, where she’s serving as press officer at the famed Savoy Hotel. Her title might as well be Miss Fix-it, since she’s the one who’s called to deal with all sorts of problems, from hungover guests to temperamental actors who refuse to rehearse. …
When the muckraking journalist Barbara Ehrenreich died in 2022, her author son, Ben, decided to write a story every day to work through his emotions. The 85 pieces collected here all roughly qualify as flash fiction, though a few are ultrabrief wisps of ideas. (Complete text of one piece: “Again, it was supposed to rain, …
Hannah Kabbah loves working in child care, but due to that time she destroyed a man’s car with a cricket bat after he hurt her sister, she has a criminal record, making it hard to find a desirable job in the small English town of Ravenswood. When her teenage crush, Nathaniel Davis, now a tattooed …
This collective biography/alphabet book defines a hero as “someone who tries to be their best self, who helps others, who makes the world a better place.” One Jewish hero is included for each letter of the alphabet. The 14 women and 12 men featured vary in terms of race and ability, as well as occupation. …
Twelve-year-old Rowdy Buckner, who has dark eyes and hair and “the same brown skin passed down from ancestors who called this kingdom home long before it was a kingdom at all,” is sick of his pampered lifestyle as the future monarch of the Kingdom of Texas in the Allied Lands, a magical version of the …
My ALLi author guest this episode is Liz Harris, a historical romance author whose path to publication took her from a lifelong love of reading and writing through teaching, travel, traditional publishing, and eventually self-publishing. She talks about how history and place shape her fiction, the freedom she found as an indie author, the importance …