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These are the Finalists for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year

These are the Finalists for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year

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Every year, Barnes and Noble selects a list of the best books of the year in various categories as well as their overall best book of the year. The lists are out now, but the Book of the Year won’t be announced until November 15th. Until then, they’ve shared their finalists for you to peruse. The shortlist includes nonfiction, fiction, middle grade novels, and picture books. There are bird watching essays, thrillers, literary fiction, a book about UFOs, a guide to Taylor Swift’s fashion, and more. Source link

The Best Queer Books of the Year, According to Barnes & Noble

The Best Queer Books of the Year, According to Barnes & Noble

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Barnes & Noble has released its Best Books of the Year 2024 lists, which I think we can all agree is a little early in the year for that. Regardless, it’s an interesting look at the biggest and buzziest books of 2024, especially from a bookselling perspective. There isn’t a separate Best LGBTQ Books of 2024 section, but I’ve browsed through all the lists and pulled out the ones I recognized as queer. Unfortunately, I still don’t have 100% accurate queerdar for books, so let me know in the comments if you spot any I missed. Also, if you think, “Is that book queer? I didn’t know it was queer,” it probably has a bisexual main character. Bisexual invisibility strikes again! I could have subtitled this list “Horror is Queer,” because that’s the category that has the most queer books in it. Still, there is at least one queer book in the Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Audiobooks, Entertainment …

The Best Fiction & Mysteries of 2024, According to Barnes & Noble

The Best Fiction & Mysteries of 2024, According to Barnes & Noble

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Kaveh Akbar is just as brilliant a poet as he is a novelist, and Martyr! is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Cyrus Shams, his friend Zee, Cyrus’ parents, and his uncle each get their own distinct point-of-view chapters and feel so real. Cyrus also provides excerpts of his own work in progress, The Book of Martyrs. The idea of a meaningful death is deeply personal to Cyrus, an Iranian American writer whose mom’s plane was shot down by the US government. Martyr! directly challenges popular literary opinions, such as the idea that dream sequences don’t belong in literary fiction or that performance art is uniquely “pretentious.” I already can’t wait to reread this book and notice the character, plot, and structure details I missed. —Grace Lapointe Source link

Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble Founder and Art Collector, Dies at 83

Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble Founder and Art Collector, Dies at 83

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Leonard Riggio, the businessman behind Barnes & Noble who made significant forays into the art world, buying key works of Minimalist art and giving millions of dollars to the Dia Art Foundation, has died at 83. He had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, according to an announcement by his family. Riggio was in the rare class of collectors who could claim they had both pioneered an entire industry and transformed at least one high-profile museum. His art collecting, though perhaps less widely known to the world writ large than his leadership of the bookselling chain Barnes & Noble, was well-regarded and closely watched—he and his wife Louise had appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1999. And were it not for the couple, the Dia Art Foundation, a New York organization that has been credited with building a canon of Minimalist art, would not have been able to undertake a range of projects that have allowed it to expand greatly in the past two decades. Related Articles Dia honored Riggio on Tuesday by …

Protests at USC and other campuses aren’t inherently noble

Protests at USC and other campuses aren’t inherently noble

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The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question. Doubting the loftiness of protest invites elite scorn more than any other skepticism about a constitutional right. Proposing limits on free speech, for example, attracts far less outrage. Indeed, people question free speech all the time: in debates about “hate speech,” campaign finance, social media and more. (Let’s not even get into the fashionableness of questioning 2nd Amendment rights). But if I say that most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical, the lonely or the misinformed, someone is bound to point to the civil rights protests of the 1960s or the campaign for women’s suffrage, followed by a string of righteous how-dare-yous. This gets to part of my objection. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about protesting. Organized protest is a form of speech, and, like speech, it is rightly protected by the 1st Amendment. But, also like …

Noble Audio FoKus Triumph TWS wireless earbuds 9

Noble Audio FoKus Triumph TWS wireless earbuds $369

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Noble Audio, a renowned name in the high-fidelity audio industry, has recently unveiled its latest offering: the FoKus Triumph True Wireless (TWS) earbuds. These earbuds are set to revolutionize the wireless audio market, combining cutting-edge technology with exceptional sound quality. Priced at $369 USD, the FoKus Triumph is designed for audiophiles who demand the best in terms of performance and are willing to invest in a premium listening experience. The FoKus Triumph’s outstanding audio performance is thanks to its hybrid driver system. This innovative setup features a custom 6.5 mm dynamic driver paired with the groundbreaking xMEMS Cowell solid-state driver. The result is a sound that boasts unparalleled phase coherence and an expansive treble range, delivering a listening experience that is both clear and rich in detail. The earbuds have been meticulously tuned by Noble Audio’s acclaimed acoustic designer, known as “The Wizard.” With years of experience in crafting high-end audio products, The Wizard has ensured that the FoKus Triumph produces a sound signature that is both accurate and engaging, catering to the discerning tastes …

Mother surprises son with Barnes & Noble shopping spree on his birthday

Mother surprises son with Barnes & Noble shopping spree on his birthday

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A mother has found herself celebrated on social media after surprising her son with a two-minute shopping spree at Barnes and Noble for his birthday. In a viral TikTok video, Jaci Moore took her son, Bentley, to one of the bookstore chain’s locations in Illinois on his 12th birthday. She set a timer and gave him one bag from the store to fill up with as many books as he could carry. “Be nice to the books,” she cautioned him in the video, to which he replied with a smile: “This is your idea.” She laughed, “Yeah, and apparently I made a poor choice.” She watched as her son sprinted around the store, quickly peeling books off the shelves, and ended up acquiring a haul of around 47 books. To her surprise, the total amounted to $270. She joked about it in the …

AI IP battle is noble but focus should be journalism’s real-time value

AI IP battle is noble but focus should be journalism’s real-time value

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ChatGPT. Picture: Shutterstock Since ChatGPT was unveiled to the world in November 2022, news executives – like the rest of the media and creative industries – have been up in arms about the unauthorised use of our intellectual property (IP) for the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Whilst these disputes about historic training matter on principle and for natural justice, commercially they are largely a distraction. Instead in the news sector we should be focusing our attention on the secondary use of our data. I’ll explain why. First though, let me be clear: there is undoubtedly a moral case to answer around training. The core principle of copyright – to reward the efforts and investment of creators, and to prevent others using their works – has been undermined. There is a legal case too. Although there are complex issues for lawyers to unpick. There’s the application of IP law to the precise technological process of large language model (LLM) training. And there’s the jurisdictional questions on where these processes took place and where any …

Cheltenham Festival day three: Noble Yeats can star in Stayers’ Hurdle | Cheltenham Festival

Cheltenham Festival day three: Noble Yeats can star in Stayers’ Hurdle | Cheltenham Festival

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Emmett Mullins is a long way behind his uncle Willie in terms of the number of Festival winners he has trained, but his strike-rate at the meeting is an impressive 14% after Corbetts Cross took the National Hunt Chase on Tuesday and he has a clear chance to register his first Grade One Festival winner when Noble Yeats (3.30), the 2022 Grand National winner, lines up for the Stayers’ Hurdle on Thursday. Noble Yeats made only a single start over hurdles in the 2020-21 season before a switch to novice chases the following season, which culminated in his 50-1 success at Aintree. His record over fences also includes a running-on fourth behind Galopin Des Champs in last season’s Gold Cup, so a return to the smaller obstacles came slightly out of the blue. He ran on strongly to beat the evergreen Paisley Park in the Cleeve Hurdle in January, however, and there is clear scope for Noble Yeats to improve on that form on Thursday, not least with the testing conditions likely to work in …

‘Noble, patient, inspiring’: Eugene Wijeysingha, ex-headmaster of Raffles Institution, dies aged 90

‘Noble, patient, inspiring’: Eugene Wijeysingha, ex-headmaster of Raffles Institution, dies aged 90

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SINGAPORE: Eugene Wijeysingha, the former headmaster of Raffles Institution (RI), has died at age 90.  Wijeysingha, whose career in education spans 35 years, served as RI principal from 1986 to 1994. The institution said he played a pivotal role in leading the school to independence and coordinated the school’s relocation to the Bishan campus in 1990.  RI announced his passing in a Facebook post on Saturday (Mar 2), describing him as a visionary who fostered discipline, academic excellence and a vibrant school spirit. Wijeysingha was also known for his passion for preserving the school’s history. He wrote a book titled The Eagle Breeds a Gryphon, which chronicled the school’s rich history from 1823 to 2003. “He will be fondly remembered as a man for the people, and his legacy will continue to live on in the students and staff who were touched by his leadership, and those who were privileged to have crossed paths with him,” said the institution. Born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, in 1934 to Sri Lankan immigrant parents, Wijeysingha migrated to Singapore with …