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"We Were Once a Family," Roxanna Asgarian's expose of Texas' adoption system, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best work of non-fiction.
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In a 6-1 vote Tuesday night, the Denton ISD School Board voted to leave two contested books — each of them about the same boy exploring his gender expression — on the shelves at Newton Rayzor Elementary School.
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Lou Anne Mauldin and Carol Hafer, librarians for Broadway Baptist Church, remember feeling shocked to learn that a book they ordered for the church had a previous life at a Massachusetts high school.
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This year’s festival of one-act plays is inspired by Heather McGhee’s ‘The Sum of Us.’
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Many university students don't actually know about the almost unlimited amount of resources available at their college libraries. Most students will think of tutoring services or resource books to check out for a paper, but most university libraries have so much more to explore.
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Plaintiffs claimed that the 2023 law, which required book vendors to rate the explicitness of sexual references in materials sold to schools, was unconstitutionally broad.
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The Interabang Books co-owner got the idea for an inmate-judged literary prize from France
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Texas Standard talked to Texas booksellers about the big books of the season and brought you some recommendations.
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The Republican-controlled board voted 12-0 on Friday to approve new science textbooks for Texas public schools.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book “World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments” published in 2020, but in some ways it was made for this moment.
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Scholastic created a separate fair category for diverse books, which it says is to help schools navigate the complexities of book bans. Librarians accused the company of caving to censorship.
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“Texas State Parks: The First 100 Years” is a granular look at how the park system came to be.