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By Bette Bao Lord

[image error]First published in 1984, this lively and funny book is as fresh as ever today. Shirley Temple Wong leaves her warm extended family in China and moves with her parents to Brooklyn, New York, where she enters fifth grade.

She learns to play stickball, befriends a bully,...

Many Chocolates’, Caramels’, Butterscotch, Honeys’ flavored (basically, African Americans, Latin’s, Indians, etc., and people that love them or show Ahavah to them that are Democrat) individuals don’t know the logos of the Democratic Party because there not educated on this political party fro...

THIS WEEK'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR...

RILEY J FORD!

Riley J. Ford is a N...

If you want to be a competitive employer, you’ve got to prioritize company culture. Yes, everyone loves making good money, but if you don’t offer the benefits and environment employees are looking for or enforce a company culture that helps them thrive, that dollar amount can only take you so far...

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Cover Reveal Day = Caffeinated Author. 

Need I say more?

Listen to this quote from St. Peter of Damaskos: “Patient endurance kills the despair that kills the soul; it teaches the soul to take comfort and not to grow listless in the face of its many battles and afflictions.” Wow, “the despair that kills the soul.” How often have I seen that in the peopl...

David Brooks:

The mob that hounded [Google engineer James] Damore was like the mobs we’ve seen on a lot of college campuses. We all have our theories about why these moral crazes are suddenly so common. I’d say that radical uncertainty about morality, meaning and life in general is producing inte...

Here are a few shocking statistics you may not know:

self-esteem peaks in girls around age 9, then, steadily declines.

75% of 8 and 9-year-old girls said they liked themselves in a survey conducted by the American Association of University Women. That figured dropped to 56% by age 12. 33%...

Today, August 17th, marks the second birthday of my best little buddy, my nephew Keegan. He is the most special little kid I know. The smartest, the funniest, the cutest, the absolute coolest with the most awesome Aunt Steppies a kid could ask for.

Nothing wrong with a little self-flattery every n...

Last spring, a lovely editor at HarperCollins, Martha Ashby, asked if I’d be happy to read a new romantic fiction series she was publishing.  Of course I jumped at the chance, and I was sent a ring bound proof of The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling.

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Mentre sul canale mi limito a consigli di lettura, raccontando perché un romanzo di uno scrittore emergente potrebbe piacere tanto quanto è piaciuto a me, qui vi presento delle recensioni vere e proprie (per quanto possa renderle tali la mia esperienza di lettrice). Mi sembra solo naturale inizi...

Apoorva Khare and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “On the sign patterns of entrywise positivity preservers in fixed dimension“. This paper explores the relationship between positive definiteness of Hermitian matrices, and entrywise operations on these matrices. The starting point for...

I got a late start writing fiction.

It’s something I always wanted to do, at least going back to when I was nine or ten. That summer, I got it in my head to write a story, a Friday the 13th-style slasher story about a maniac named Clay who killed off summer campers (modeled on kids I knew from Ro...