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The entire ‘Twilight Saga’ returns to theaters this fall in celebration of original book’s 20th anniversary  yahoo.com ‘Twilight’ Saga Movie Marathon Set For 20th Anniversary Of First Book  Deadline ‘Twilight’ coming back to theaters this Halloween: How to get tickets  USA Today ‘Twilight’ movies returning to local theaters in October  Times Union The Twilight Saga Theatrical Rerelease Dates Revealed by Lionsgate  The Hollywood Reporter Source …

In an early scene from Netflix’s new film adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club, about a quartet of senior citizen crime solvers, retired spy Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) and retired nurse Joyce (Celia Imrie)—the former in a lumpy cardigan with a scarf tied around her hair—approach the village police station. Joyce enthuses about the trick the pair are about to play on the …

This week in publishing we have new works from a number of seasoned veterans with a taste for big swings and clever premises. Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online; that hell can be rather academic, really; and even that the rules of …

Columbus, Ohio — After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things — a very long list of every book he had ever read. Dan, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio, was in the Peace Corps when he started the list in 1962. And …

NEW YORK (AP) — In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, “The Turner House,” Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagements, the occasional essay and, throughout, the challenges of creating a work of imagination. “With nonfiction, you’re usually doing it …

Magical Librarian Ariana: The Books of the Seven Heroes for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch, and Sword of the Sea for PlayStation 5 and PC are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases. Also due out this week are the PlayStation 5 versions of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails …

FREE BOOKS: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on Aug. 12-16. Stepping Through Time, hosted by Indie Author Central, is offering free historical fiction and contemporary books for Kindle e-readers. Stuff Your Kindle Day is back once again, and this time fans of historical fiction and contemporary books have their moment to shine. Stepping Through Time, hosted by …

Tiny Bookshop got a surprise launch for Steam and Switch during last Thursday’s Nintendo indie presentation. As the name implies, you run a tiny bookshop in a seaside town, meeting the locals and recommending books to them. Your bookshop is run out of a cart attached to a car, meaning that every day you have to decide where you’ll set …

The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminisation in recent decades. Or, rather, an equalisation: a much-needed rebalancing after 150 years during which, we were told, everything was driven by males strutting, brawling and shagging, with females just along for the ride. This reckoning has finally arrived at language. The origins of our species’ exceptional communication skills constitutes one …

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering numbers – but now also possessed the means to raze civilization as we know it. Despite its defining nature, this dreadful event that led to the end of WWII …