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Daily Bookmark: “Permanent Record” is a whirlwind YA romance for the Instagram era

Pablo Rind is a lonely kid, barely eking out a living at the twenty-four-hour bodega in Brooklyn where he works the overnight shift. Leanna Smart is an ascending pop star, Continue Reading

Posted On : August 23, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Red Hook teacher pens YA novel about staying soft in a hard world

Growing up in the Red Hook projects, writer and middle school teacher Torrey Maldonado hated “boring books that seemed to dismiss him and where he was from.” Lucky for the Continue Reading

Posted On : July 31, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “Mightier than the Sword” is a kids’ book to rival screen time

Kids now live in a world with endless devices competing for their eyeballs, with each app and game expertly engineered to capture their shorter and shorter attention spans. Given that, Continue Reading

Posted On : July 22, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: In “Good Luck Girls,” #MeToo meets “West World”

Though Brooklyn-based writer Charlotte Nicole Davis set her debut YA novel in a fantasy Wild West empire called Arketta, the story has plenty of resonance with our current political reality. Continue Reading

Posted On : July 15, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Brooklyn writer uses Red Hook housing projects as backdrop for new novel

“Tight” by Torrey Maldonado is a fast-paced novel for middle-grade readers, that emphasizes the importance of finding your own identity, choosing friends you can depend on, and the power of Continue Reading

Posted On : October 17, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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YA Novel Takes A Deeply Personal Look At Mental Illness

It’s hard enough to save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, but it’s another thing entirely when you’re only seventeen… and ‘someone’ is none other than your mom. The Continue Reading

Posted On : October 17, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat

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Brooklyn Book Beat is Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s blog devoted to all things literary — books, authors, history, and associated events.

The Eagle, once edited by Walt Whitman, has long been covering Brooklyn news and events, but this blog serves as a special haven for bookworms. BookBeat features Brooklyn-based writers, as well as stories relating to the city and its history.

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