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The Mid-Hudson Library System’s most-requested ebooks for the week ending Dec. 21, 2025
The following is a list of the most-requested ebooks at your local libraries for the week ending Dec. 21. Most Requested eBooks – Adult Fiction 1. The Wedding People: A Novel, Alison Espach, Macmillan Publishers. 2. My Friends: A Novel, Fredrik Backman, Simon
Bengaluru citizens are being urged to protect urban wildlife
<p>Wildlife rescue organisations are reporting an increase in rescue calls for owls and snakes this winter. Owls are vulnerable in the September to December period as it is their breeding season, while snakes enter human spaces to escape the
The 10 best nonfiction books of 2025
Here's a look at some of the best nonfiction releases of the past year. ...
Eagle Holiday Classic, region’s largest high school basketball tourney, features 41 varsity teams – 15 from Greater Spokane League
Holiday week brings high school basketball tournaments, and Greater Spokane League and Eastern Washington teams are in action across the state. The largest holiday basketball tournament in the region tips off Saturday at West Valley High School as the Eagle
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91
An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu. ...
Robert Lindsey, Times Reporter and Reagan Ghostwriter, Dies at 90
The nonfiction spy thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman,” which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times. ...
Best of 2025: Mark Robinson unpacks resignation from NZ Rugby
"Time to move": Mark Robinson unpacks resignation from NZ Rugby Outgoing New Zealand Rugby boss Mark Robinson believes he's leaving the game in a better
Books-A-Million Customers and Booksellers Donate Nearly $2.9 Million Nationwide in Holiday Book and Toy Drives
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All hail the Panama Canal, a frontline in the US-China trade war
To a farmer in Nebraska or a retailer in New York, the Panama Canal is like air – noticed mainly when missing. Farmers noticed it in 2023. Drought lowered water levels in the canal. Ships carrying American ag exports couldn’t use it. By some estimates,
These were the most checked out library books in New York City in 2025
In our growing digital world, many people often turn to e-books as their primary source of reading, but libraries are still such an important part of our world. Recently, The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public Library released
Yolo County Library invites readers to ‘Travel the World’
Yolo County Library has a New Year’s resolution for the community: read more in 2026. Beginning Jan. 1, the Library will once again offer its popular reading program, 52: A Yearlong Reading Journey, with a new theme of ‘Around the World in 52
10 nonfiction books that capture hope, tragedy and joy
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In 2025 reparations became central to UK ties with the Caribbean and Africa – so ...
This year was a pivotal one, in which the issue of restorative justice began to frame the UK’s post-imperial relationship with the global south
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind ...
The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley
Hype and Fraud in India
Little known today, Fitz-James O’Brien deserves serious attention for developing some of science fiction’s most familiar tropes—among them microcosmic worlds, invisible monsters, time slips, and robots. ...
At What Cost?
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question. ...
Satie’s Spell
Erik Satie took down the arrogance of late Romantic classical music, gently but ruthlessly taking up its vocabulary and removing all the excess, including authorship. ...
God of the Gaps
Ross Douthat’s usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience. ...
A Talent for Living
In Beryl Bainbridge’s novels, to die is an awfully big adventure—and so is to live. ...
High Mountains
I am very tall. I also am tall. I have these great
It’s a Gas
I’m writing this in the last days of the
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The Empire Gives Back
What does a fair policy of museum repatriation look like? A new book considers the issue in terms of human rights, cultural sovereignty, and stewardship. ...
Blood Work
A rare genetic mutation is best treated the nineteenth-century way, with bloodletting, showing up the strengths and weaknesses of the NHS. ...
Bamfordtown
Maria Bamford’s wild and constantly inventive stand-up style relies on her never flinching from the most difficult realities. ...
All the Sad Unliterary Men
David Szalay’s recent novel Flesh captures with unsparing accuracy the consciousness of an ordinary man in helpless decline. ...
Uganda’s Two Tyrants
Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni both confronted, in different brutal ways, the challenges of governing a postcolonial nation. ...