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The Percy Jackson and the Olympians middle grade fantasy series by Rick Riordan is getting a long-awaited TV adaptation with Disney+, and the first teaser trailer has just dropped! It stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood. The series will premiere on December 20th, with the first two episodes coming out on the same day. From there, new episodes will come out weekly. These first two episodes were written by Rick Riordan alongside Jon Steinberg, one of the showrunners....

The trailer for The Other Black Girl has been released by Hulu, and y’all, it looks so good. The new series is an adaptation of the bestselling novel The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, which has been described as a cross between the movie Get Out and The Stepford Wives. It follows 26-year-old Nella Rogers, the only Black employee at book publishing company Wagner Books. She’s over the micro aggressions and feeling alone when she receives a blessing in the form of new hire Hazel. Suddenly Nella has...

As the Federal Trade Commission moves towards what looks like a lawsuit against Amazon, several authors, booksellers, and anti trust activists want Amazon’s bookselling to also be investigated. The Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association, and antitrust think tank Open Markets Institute sent a letter Wednesday to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission requesting that they disrupt the monopoly on the book market that Amazon has. The retail giant’s influence on the book world can’t be overstated — 40% of physical books sold in the U.S. are sold...

Goodreads has just released several lists rounding up their users’ most anticipated new book releases coming out in Autumn. The main list includes 44 books and is broken into Fall’s Best New Contemporary & Historical Fiction, Mysteries & Thrillers, Fantasy Novels, Sci-Fi Novels, Horror, Nonfiction, Romances, and Young Adult Novels. There are also separate, longer lists of the Most Anticipated Fall Mysteries & Thrillers, Most Anticipated New Horror Novels, Most Anticipated Young Adult Books, and The Big Fantasy and Science Fiction Books of Fall. These books are chosen according to...

In March of this year, author Sim Kern hosted the Trans Rights Readathon on TikTok and raised over $200,000 for trans organizations. Inspired by their success, The Queer Collective book club is hosting the Maui Relief Effort Readathon to raise money for organizations helping in Maui after devastating wildfires have caused so much destruction. The Maui Relief Effort Readathon starts today, August 14th, and runs for the next two weeks, ending August 28th. You can participate by filling out the Google form, reading books by Hawaiian and Polynesian authors for...

If you’re using books in part to escape from the world for little blips of time as a breather to recharge your batteries, August book clubs once again offer a huge array of excellent picks for you. Most are exclusively virtual book clubs, one is in-person, and a brand new book club will do both. Bonus: many of them are author-inclusive if you’re a fan of hearing the author chat about their own work. Let’s start by playing my favorite game: did more than one book club pick the same...

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View All posts by Kelly Jensen Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author...

Book lovers, take heed! Hundreds of hardcovers are on sale for 50% off at Barnes and Noble now. If you've had your eye on a bestseller or new release, here's your chance to stock up. You'll find both fiction and nonfiction for adults, YA titles, and kid lit, too. From memoirs and epic fantasy to mysteries and mythology, there's something for everyone. Below are some of the most popular titles offered. The prices listed factor in the sale. Happy book buying!...

Viola Fletcher is 109, and her memoir Don’t Let Them Bury My Story is about to come out August 15th, making her the oldest woman in the world to publish a memoir. In it, she recalls the night that became known as the Tulsa Massacre. On May 30, 1921, when Fletcher was only 7 years old, a white mob descended on the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, burning it to the ground and killing what the rest of the country called “Black Wall Street.” “You know, I can still smell...

Texas’ HB 900, which will require book vendors to review books and rate them, determining if they are “sexually explicit” or “sexually relevant,” is set to go into effect September 1. And now, the country’s largest book distributor to schools, Follett School Solutions, has asked publishers to rate their books. Thing is, what constitutes as acceptable under the new Texas law is largely unclear, and guidelines on how to rate books still hasn’t been provided, which Follett officials have acknowledged. That’s not the only reason, or even the main reason,...

Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on Instagram @susiedoom. View All posts by Susie Dumond Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on Instagram @susiedoom. View All posts by...

Katie Moench is a librarian, runner, and lover of baked goods. A school librarian in the Upper Midwest, Katie lives with her husband and dog and spends her free time drinking coffee, trying new recipes, and adding to her TBR. View All posts by Katie Moench Katie Moench is a librarian, runner, and lover of baked goods. A school librarian in the Upper Midwest, Katie lives with her husband and dog and spends her free time drinking coffee, trying new recipes, and adding to her TBR. View All posts by...

Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family. Twitter: @carolinabeci View All posts by Carolina Ciucci Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family....

Public libraries are synonymous with children today, with story times and an inviting children’s section considered essential features. Arguments for increasing or maintaining library funding often reference the library’s role in literacy education for kids as well as the many happy memories even adults who no longer frequent the library still hold for childhoods spent there. But public libraries weren’t always welcoming to kids, and a lot of the book banning strategies and the policies they’ve inspired might just have those child-free libraries make a comeback. The first publicly funded...