Mundus Inversus
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein by Jennifer Roy with Ali Fadhil
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Follow-up: EarthSea books WERE adapted, and Ursula K Le Guin hated it
Walmart to begin selling Kobo ereaders & ebooks
National Book Award for works in translation
New prize launched for thrillers that don’t involve violence against women
Boston Public Library launches crowdsourced project to transcribe anti-slavery documents
Kwame Alexander to start imprint Versify
This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about Kobo and Wal-Mart teaming up, bad adaptations, the National Book Award adding a translation prize, and much more.
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