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Feature: YA, A Love Story   “Calling a book ‘young adult’ is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it’s...

Feature: Celebrating Black Voices in Publishing. At this cultural moment, elevating black voices and understanding the history of racism in this country is more important than ever. Recent strides...

Feature: The Great Historic Roundup. From Number the Stars to To Kill a Mockingbird, so many authors have used historical fiction to help us gain “human self-knowledge.” So much...

Small Press Reviews: Orange Hat Publishing By Julia Gimbel About five years ago, I found a 60-page handwritten journal my late father wrote about his experiences in the South...

Body, Mind and Quill What masters of prevarication people are—if not with others, then often with themselves. And so we have come, once more, to that time of year...

A little bit of everything from a scatter-brained, book-loving Mom.  Doesn’t have to ALWAYS be children’s books  There is a lot of research out there that shows the importance...

Women & Children First opened in a modest storefront in 1979, owned by Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon, who met as graduate students at the University of Illinois at...