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Facebook users: You have less than a month to claim your piece of the $725M settlement
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Tons of Under Armour backpacks are 25% off right now
You might be a college student going back to classes next month. Or a professional who has to haul around a laptop all day. Or even...
Barbie, Books, and Publishing for Young Readers
Barbie might be one of the first true franchises to cover everything. What began as a fashion doll in 1959 has grown into an industry with...
Walking Away From Omelas: Connecting Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Story to Our Current Political Climate
It was late spring in Tennessee, the kind of day that already felt like summer — temperatures in the low 90s and air dense with humidity...
8 New Nonfiction Books Being Released in August
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Criminally Hot: 15 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023
We’ve already been breaking all kinds of weather records in a bad way in 2023, and as of this writing, it isn’t even late August yet...
