Florida could expand challenges to school textbooks

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Florida could expand challenges to school textbooks

… public schools, the right not only to object to textbooks and other instructional materials but also to suggest books to both local school boards and the State Board of Education. The boards would then have to contact those book publishers to see if they wanted to make a pitch for public school business.
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The Week in Libraries: December 1, 2017

No question, the e-book market has come a long way since 2012, when many publishers refused to even license e-books to libraries. Still, the e-book market for libraries remains expensive, and difficult to manage with a host of vendors, and a range of differing models which vary from publisher to
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Why John Green finds solace in the Mountain Goats

… dark times, and I hope it will be for you as well.” Green drew on his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety when writing “Turtles All the Way Down,” a set-in-Indianapolis story that's spent seven weeks at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list for young adult hardcover books.
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Novelist speaks about her work

Leila Abdelrazaq, a Palestinian-American activist, graphic novelist and author of “Baddawi,” spoke to Guilford students and faculty on Nov. 11. During her … The talk was sponsored by the Center for Principled Problem Solving, Every Campus a Refuge and the English and Creative Writing Department.
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