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Literacy & Hope: Hearts for Preloved Books
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Literacy & Hope: Hearts for Preloved Books

by Meagan Frank

A free bundle of books has the power to change a person’s day. If one of the books in the bundle is the right book at the right time, it can change a person’s life. Alyse Urice, founder of Literacy & Hope, believes in the power of books. She wraps up preloved books with a little bit of yarn and a whole lot of hope and places them where just the right heart might find them. […]

Lucia Graves: Living Life in Translation
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Lucia Graves: Living Life in Translation

by Meagan Frank

Without translators, some of the best stories ever written would be inaccessible to millions of people. Lucia Graves’s first translations were those of her father’s work, British writer and poet Robert Graves. A trilingual translator, she has since translated more than thirty volumes, including worldwide bestselling novels by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

In his memoir, Stitches, David is a child drawing on a piece of paper on the floor. He burrows his head through his art into the world he drew to escape the world he lived in. David says, “I think we all need escapes from reality. My escape has been through drawing.”
Readers Write

What Book Has Saved You? Pay It Forward.

by Meagan Frank

This month, we asked our subscribers: Is there a book that saved your marriage, your finances, your kids, your life… What was the book and how did it make a difference for you? Books saved my marriage. They were my ladder out of a low point and, as I clung […]