An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Themes: learning from the life of the Prophet; caring for all living things. Summary: The assembly starts with a game about pets, encouraging children to think about how they take responsibility ...

Islam Makhachev & Khabib Nurmagomedov are not blood brothers, but share a brotherhood in fighting under Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov. Khabib's family legacy in MMA continues with his undefeated cousins ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong ...

HEALING WITH ANIMALS Islamic medicine had some roots in folk remedies that used animals’ organs. Many manuscripts drew on these traditions, such as Book on the Usefulness of Animals by the 14th ...

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Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...

Download a PDF version here. Susan Shand’s book is a moving account of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) genocide against the Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, which ...