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Family history

Show Way pieces together the history of the Underground Railroad and Woodson’s own ancestors’ experience with slavery in South Carolina.

New Generation of Readers

Like her own parents, Blume worked hard to pass along a love of reading to her children and grandchildren.

Detours

At 27, Cooper abruptly left England to marry an American with three teenage children. Homesickness inspired her to write about the experience of living in the U.S. and an autobiographical book about growing up in England during World War II.

Poetry Friday Anthologies

Dr. Sylvia Vardell introduces her newest collaboration with Janet Wong, The Poetry Friday Anthology series.

Clandestine comics

Gene Luen Yang recounts smuggling comic books into his childhood home.

Paper Engineer?

This amusing anecdote explains why Robert Sabuda prefers to call himself a bookmaker.

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