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Double Time is Jane Roper's memoir of her first three years raising twin daughters. I've heard Jane read from it and I can attest it's hilarious, serious and intimate. It's also gutsy: Roper bravely describes her battle with depression and how that got complicated when she added twins to her ...

As the Scooby-Doo franchise has developed over the years, the Scooby Gang has been around the world and then some. China, Hawaii, Transylvania, South America... they've been everywhere! I've really lost track of every destination that's sported a mystery for the gang to solve. But I can name at least ...

The detonations were swift and unkind to the survivors. In Julianna Baggott's post-apocalyptic novel, Pure, part one of a planned trilogy, you either survived by chance or because you were in the Dome. There is no middle ground.

Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of animated film demonstrating both the flexibility of the medium and the director's genius.

The CW orders a full season of Arrow, based on the DC Comics Character, Green Arrow. But he's not the same one from Smallville.

I heard recently from Carolyn Danckaert, one of the founders of a new site called A Mighty Girl. Danckaert and her husband Aaron Smith built a website collecting books and movies that featured strong girl characters, and it's a great resource for anyone looking for something to share with their ...

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A couple years ago, illustrator Christopher Niemann published a series of Lego abstractions of NYC, which were later collected into the book I Lego N.Y. He did illustrations for the New York Times magazine (collected online as his "Abstract City" visual essays) for several years, and then moved to Berlin ...

That was this week's theme as I rush around trying to start a business from scratch. And the marketers have told me to not forget the kids. Kids may not have most of the money in our economy, but pretty much all of what they have is disposable. And a ...