The 2 books at the heart of the suit are Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer,’ a memoir about identifying as nonbinary, and Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Mist and Fury,’ a fantasy novel that depicts a dark fairy romance.
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Our View: Maine school districts shouldn’t yield to book-banning minority
Students can handle difficult discussions – don’t let a few parents deny them those lessons.
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Author Nicholas Evans, whose ‘Horse Whisperer’ became a phenomenon, dies at 72
Evans was deeply in debt and looking for direction when he heard story that ‘made me shiver’ and would change his life.
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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York
Rushdie’s 1988 novel, ‘The Satanic Verses,’ was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.
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‘The Snowman’ children’s author Raymond Briggs dies at 88
Briggs’ wordless book, about a boy’s wintry creation that comes to life, has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world.
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Our View: Mega-mergers can be nightmarish. Just ask Stephen King.
When power becomes consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, the market gets skewed, and workers and consumers ultimately suffer.
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Stephen King testifies for government in book publishers’ antitrust trial
The bestselling author’s appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington brought a narrative of the evolution of book publishing toward the dominance of the Big Five companies.
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Stephen King is star witness as government tries to block publishing giants’ merger
The Justice Department argues that the merger would shrink competition and, inevitably, the vital public discourse that books help engender.
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Father and son writing team detail life of 19th century Bath sailor
It took only about two years for Fred and Alex Hill to write “A Flick of Sunshine,” a new book detailing the nautical adventures of their ancestor Richard Willis Jackson, but the project has been on their minds for nearly half a century.
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Bound for success? New bookstore will add to Portland’s abundance
The city is already home to four independent bookstores, three of which opened in the past decade. Is there room for another?