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Thanks for helping us have another great year! To show our thanks, we’re giving away 28 awesome, book-themed prizes, worth over $500.

As someone who’s loved reading from before I got into school, I can tell you that reading in school is a terrible experience. But there are some things teachers can do to minimize that, and we’re going to go through those today.

Amazon Prime’s Reading program is one of the lesser known perks to your prime membership and can be a little tricky to navigate. Here we’ll walk you through the different reading benefits and give you our best tips for finding the best Amazon Prime ebooks to read.

With Prime Reading, you can score thousands of free ebooks just for being a Prime member. Read on for a list of some of our current favorite recommendations to try.

As I listened to my father relate family stories to a group of tourists, the reader in me desired to know how characters of the 1770s lived, interacted, worked, ate, and faced the war. Before long, my curiosity became Hold Me Close, Revolutionary Faith book one (1773).

If you are anything like me, you love to curl up with a good thriller to pass the time. But, if you read a lot of thrillers, you might be thinking, are there any good ones left? Of course!

Is there anything better for the appetite of the voracious reader than to devour a good book? Well, there just might be if that book contains references to mouthwatering foods and the recipes to back them up.

Here is my journey to becoming an author, and the exciting sequence of events that resulted in the short film for my first book, Sleeping with the Blackbirds.

When writing historical romance, research is imperative to make the story believable. Research is such fun!

If you’re reaching for a dictionary at the word “mixtopian,” don’t bother: I confess I made it up. I figure it’s one of those terms that should exist but doesn’t. It does, however, beg the question, how does a mixtopia differ from “normal life”?

If you’ve found yourself working too much or lacking motivation to work, or you are struggling to find balance between work and home life, this book will help you address the problem and make positive changes.

If you’re trying to decide whether or not to spend money on an ebook, especially if you aren’t familiar with the author, here are some tips to help you determine whether that ebook is a good book.

The opening line of a novel should pull you in, and there a lot of books out there that do exactly that. Here are 22 powerful opening lines that we love.

I first stumbled across this book in 2015. I picked up a copy from my local library and started to read it. And then the unexpected happened. I instantly fell in love with the story.

Have you read your way through hundreds and thousands of pages of Urban Fantasy novels and series, following the adventures of familiar heroines. I have too—and those better known heroines have led me to uncover a slew of others. I’d love to share a few of my favorites.

Do you love a good pirate romance? Discovering how pirates pillaged the Mediterranean, looted Asia under the command of Madame Ching Shih, and even pirated American rivers is another way to enjoy swashbuckling tales.

If you’ve been unable to lose yourself to the fictional world due to stress, work overload, work underload, or depression, I encourage you to find a book and forget.

Here are my “Team Expectations” (aka classroom rules) as they were posted in the back of my classroom, along with a book suggestion for teaching and learning each.

The Bookish Things on my Lifelong To-Do List that I want to share with you today are all travel-related, since in this time of pandemic, most of us can only dream about traveling. I present you with the top five places on my Book Nerd bucket list.