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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita
Ava Reid. HarperCollins, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-321155-1A trained mercenary falls in love with her mark in this grim dystopia from Reid (A Study in Drowning). After undergoing intense physical and psychological reconditioning, teenage Melinoë becomes an assassin for Caerus, the corporation that controls New Amsterdam through civilian debt. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Inesa has spent her life trying to keep her family afloat.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Candace Fleming |James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita
Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster“You are an investigator for the Black Swan Scientific Investigation (BSSI) team,” Fleming (The Enigma Girls) declares in the opening chapter of this interactive foray into unraveling “the natural world’s greatest mysteries”—in this instance, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita |Angie Kang
Angie Kang. Kokila, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-69823-5Kang debuts with a deeply felt story about siblings returning to a cherished place—“Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to.” In loosely painted, expressive gouache, crayon, and colored pencil spreads, two figures head up a slope amid deeply saturated blues, greens, and magentas. The duo prepare to swim in the bright sun: “Brother takes off his shirt. I take off my shirt. Brother stretches.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Edmund Harriss |James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Houston Hughes
Filmmaker Robinson crafts an accessible and immersive account of growing up with strabismus, a condition of eye misalignment that causes difficulties with tracking objects, depth perception, and reading. Intermittent abstract artwork by Rea (Fixing Flamingos) depicts sight tests for readers to engage with throughout and help to illustrate how the subject navigated the world: how strabismus affected his performance in school, how he related to others, and how others perceived him.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 7:00 am Monday, November 11, 2024 By James W. RobinsonStaff WriterAlbert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery is gearing up for two events in November. In honor of the cemetery’s 20th anniversary, the cemetery will be hosting an Open House at 5310 Milners Road in Suffolk from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. on Nov. 4. Likewise, the cemetery is preparing for their Veterans Day celebrations on Nov. 7 and 12 both at 9 a.m. and are looking for volunteers to help with the events.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 12:00 pm Monday, October 28, 2024 Sentara Obici Hospital hosted students from Franklin City Public Schools to showcase how the hospital provides high quality care for its patients. Franklin students currently enrolled in the J.P. King Career and Technical Academy took a tour of Sentara Obici on Thursday, Oct. 17 taking a look at various healthcare career opportunities to explore after graduating from high school.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 9:00 am Wednesday, August 21, 2024 It’s hard to believe that in 2024, legendary Hip Hop artist and Portsmouth native Missy Elliott is headlining her first tour, one that follows a 30 year career that has seen her create iconic hits soundtracking the lives of a generation, collaborate with the biggest names in music, and innovate pop music, the industry and the landscape for female rappers following her.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 7:00 am Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Journalist, Author and Professor Wayne Dawkins shares the history of two key African-American sports journalists and the impact they had on Major League Baseball. The New York-born Suffolk resident took time to discuss his upcoming book, “Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo that Desegregated American Sports,” ahead of its July 17 release.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 2:00 pm Monday, July 1, 2024 This year’s St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway winner hails from Suffolk, Virginia. Megan Richardson, who says she has been donating to the giveaway since 2009, was named the winner of the 5-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom home located in Suffolk’s Bennett’s Creek area. The home has an estimated value of $715,000.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
thetidewaternews.com | James Robinson
Published 8:00 am Friday, June 14, 2024 The sweltering summer heat couldn’t stop the celebration of a new era for Franklin’s Southampton Veterinary Clinic PC. Alongside various City of Franklin and Southampton County officials, Southampton Veterinary Clinic PC Owner and Veterinarian Dr. Wanda B. Bradshaw and her staff broke ground for the clinic’s upcoming new building on Thursday, June 6. The new building is located at 26364 Delaware Rd and is expected to be completed mid-2025.
