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2022 Story Square Lit with Families Texas Family Literacy Festival this Sunday at Discovery Green!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Discovery Green will be transformed on Sunday as it hosts the first-ever Texas Festival dedicated to family literacy. Story Square’s Lit with Families 2022 Texas Family Literacy Festival will lure visitors to downtown Houston with a day of food, face painting, activities and free books for the whole family. The festival continues on Sunday, October 16, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free tickets are available at Eventbrite. Story Square CEO Fran Victoria Stevens said the festival comes at a very urgent time, especially among families…

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The Pasadena Public Library scheduled to end all late fees on overdue books and movies!

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Pasadena, Texas (KTRK) – You’re all forgiven if you’ve returned a book late to the Pasadena Public Library and haven’t paid the fine yet. The above video is from the 24/7 live broadcast on ABC13 The Pasadena Public Library has ended all late fees for books and films. The library officially joins more than a dozen libraries in Texas that no longer charge late fees for any overdue materials. SEE ALSO: Pasadena Elementary School Gets New Library From HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ The only fine that will remain is for items…

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The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien Illustrated Edition 58% off Peak Day

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For the first time since the original publication in 1954, a new edition of The Lord of the Rings includes illustrations, drawings, and maps from author JRR Tolkien. This comes on the heels of famous exhibitions of his artwork LOTR that took place in New York, Paris and Oxford, England in 2018. The book is Currently on sale for only $31.33 on Amazon (58% off) for Prime Day 2022 – all-time low price. Note that the new version of Silmarillion Illustrated and The Fall of Numenor have also been released…

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Game of Thrones creator confirms final books are moving further away from TV series

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Author George RR Martin has asserted for years that the events of his recent books A Song of Ice and Fire will not directly reflect the final seasons of HBO Game of thrones, with the author recently offering updates on the last two novels in the series and how they actually grow further from the show’s narrative. While Martin has served as a consultant on the overall trajectory for those recent seasons, he’s made clear that his process means he doesn’t always know which direction the narrative will take, so…

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How Carter Bays Met Your Mother In His Science Fiction Ghost, The Mutual Friend

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Over the course of his decade in production How do I meet your motherCarter Baez helped craft a sprawling story for New York City, filled with dozens of interconnected characters and full of heart and humanity. Distilling that humble and earnest epic into one novel might seem impossible, but that’s what he did – this time without a staff and writers behind him – in mutual friend. It’s a story that’s impossible to effectively sum up, but it focuses on a group of New Yorkers, many of whom have little…

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Brad Meltzer explains what the comics contributed to in Lightning Rod

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Brad Meltzer, author and comic book writer whose non-fiction children’s books seek to include the history of Batman and Superman in the coming months, has released his latest thriller, Lightning rodwho mixes his fascination with plots and his ability to build compelling fantasy worlds. In the new book, escape artistNola and Zig find themselves drawn into a mystery that begins when a valet borrows a luxury car. Telling the server on the GPS to “go home”, he thinks he’s going to rob the driver’s house – but when he gets…

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