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6 days ago | 
l8r.it | Joanne Owen |Tasha Ghouri |Sara Novic
With Deaf Awareness Week running 5th-11th May, we’ve curated a collection of brilliant books that explore deaf culture, deaf history, and the lives of deaf characters. By turns stirring, moving and exhilarating, there are novels here for all tastes, whether you’re into literary fiction, top-notch crime thrillers, or coming-of-age page-turners. Talking of which, we simply have to highlight Sara Novic’s True Biz, a recent read we can’t stop raving about.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
philadelphia.today | Sara Novic |Jensen Toussaint
The Free Library of Philadelphia's Book Bike program brings books and reading to different community events throughout the city. The Free Library of Philadelphia launched an innovative program, the Book Bike program, in 2016 that brings reading to local communities, writes Gabe Donahue for Billy Penn at WHYY.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Sara Novic
When it comes to deaf culture, I can be protective. The American deaf community is a diverse and vibrant subculture, with our own rich history, language, and shared values. We are also small, tight-knit, and extremely marginalized by the larger hearing society around us, which can make us proprietary about our stories.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
aol.com | Sara Novic
September 5, 2024 at 9:02 AMThe Important Lesson I'm Teaching My Deaf SonCourtesy of Sara NovicWhen people realize I'm deaf, they tend to have a lot of questions. Can you drive? (Yes.) Get married? (Yes! What the heck?) Know if a baby is crying? (Yes, thanks to my vibrating wristwatch monitor).
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
philadelphia.today | Sara Novic |Jensen Toussaint
Matt Phelan, an Ardmore-based illustrator and author, has spent the past two decades making a name for himself in the children’s literature world, writes Michael T. Dolan for Main Line Today. Phelan is an illustrator of over 20 books from other authors, and has written and illustrated four award-winning graphic novels, several picture books, and a growing collection of chapter books. His work is simply beloved by children, teachers, librarians, and parents alike.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
philadelphia.today | Sara Novic |Jensen Toussaint
The Free Library of Philadelphia system is finalizing a deal to provide six-days-a-week service at all 55 of its Philadelphia area locations. The Free Library has aimed to open all 55 of its Philadelphia area branches six days a week for years, and that soon come to fruition, writes Jacob Brown for WHYY. The Free Library system is close to finalizing its goal. Currently, 25 of the Free Library’s 55 branches are open six days a week.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Sara Novic
I CAN’T REMEMBER the occasion for which I first heard Philly’s unofficial theme song—sung to the tune of “Found a Peanut,” most likely by a crowd of drunk Eagles fans—but I do remember thinking it was f—ing depressing. Growing up outside the northeast boundary of the city, I was a self-conscious kid whom the popular kids occasionally sniped at but mostly just ignored.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Sara Novic
Earlier this year, researchers out of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced a “breakthrough” in treating hearing loss, using gene therapy to restore hearing to an 11-year-old congenitally deaf boy, Aissam Dam. The CHOP trial is one of five across the globe, all aimed at restoring hearing. Being the first such trial in the U.S., the news media and medical community heaped praise on the experiment, but this is only one side of the story.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
covecollective.substack.com | Sara Novic |Gabrielle Zevin |Curtis Sittenfeld |Jessica Knoll
Happy New Year!!! I cannot believe I’m typing that out but somehow it’s 2024 and January!!!! WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!?!?! It’s been over two months since the Toronto Public Library suffered from a cyber attack that thwarted my reading list plans for the last months of 2023. I am very meticulous, no seriously, I’ve had countless conversations with people explaining my holds process 🙃.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
havenmagazines.com | Meg MOORE |Rebecca Yarros |Sara Novic |Donna Tartt
THE ADMISSIONS By Meg Mitchell Moore A seemingly idyllic, affluent northern California family is tested by Ivy League ambitions, overscheduling, impossible expectations by the Bay Area elite and difficult personal secrets. FOURTH WING By Rebecca YarrosDespite hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is forced to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider in the first novel of a new series.
