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Roy L Burkhead
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Meet me at my publication, The Old Man and the Manuscript

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The King's Christmas Broadcast 2025
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December 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The Top 15 Children’s and YA Stories of 2025
Manga editions of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants books, an exclusive tour of Shel Silverstein’s archives, and the unexpected pairing of Stephen King and Maurice Sendak were among PW’s most-clicked st...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The Top Library Stories of 2025
Distribution, federal funding, the freedom to read, and digital and print collection development were behind the most-talked-about library stories in 2025—and they aren't going away in 2026.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Top Bookselling Stories of 2025
It was an eventful year for booksellers, who dealt with such obstacles as the Trump administration’s tariffs, National Guard occupations, and brush fires. Plus, Barnes & Noble acquired Books Inc. and ...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Chicago Bookstore Fights to Serve Latinx Readers
As the deployment of ICE agents to the Windy City rattles the customer base of Los Amigos Books, the bilingual bookshop is also contending with tariffs as it seeks to become a distributor for Spanish-...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Couple opens new bookstore in Urbana
Christina and Don Flowers opens Sunshine Book Nook in Urbana.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Utah’s first and only shop dedicated solely to mystery books can’t sit still. Here’s how to find it.
What started with an Instagram account for book reviews led to a first-of-its-kind store for Utah readers.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Love on wheels: How one Coloradan turned grief into a mobile romance bookstore
After her husband died, Barker found solace in romance books — now she’s bringing that same comfort to book-starved towns in Northern Colorado.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The Origin of Krampus, Europe's Evil Twist on Santa
The mythical holiday beast is once again on the prowl, but beware, he's making his way across the Atlantic
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December 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Untouched, Century-Old Fruitcake Found In Antarctica
Even generations of penguins refused to touch the concoction believed to have been brought south by the Terra Nova Expedition
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December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A Stunning Series of Informal Ceasefires Known as the ‘Christmas Truce’ Began on This Day in 1914
After official attempts at a World War I truce failed, soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front took it upon themselves to share in the bonhomie of the season
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December 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Listen to Bob Dylan Read '’Twas the Night Before Christmas'
A favorite voice interprets a classic
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December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Kids Send Thousands of Letters to Santa Each Year. Here's What Really Happens to Them
The United States Postal Service and volunteers have responded to North Pole holiday correspondence over the past century
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December 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Denmark's Postal Service Is About to Stop Delivering Physical Letters After 400 Years
As the volume of letters plummets, PostNord, the government-owned postal service of Denmark and Sweden, will stop transporting letters in Denmark on December 30, though it will continue distributing p...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A Famed Street Photographer Chronicled What Christmas Looks Like Across America Over the Course of Decades
Lee Friedlander’s new book, “Christmas,” collects his work from all over the country on the topic of our sentimental and materialistic connection to the holiday
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December 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The Magical Animation of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets
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December 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A Forgotten Louisa May Alcott Story Showcases the Author's Twist on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with a different audience in mind
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December 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The last chapter of THE E-POSTLE is now live. And I'm thrilled to share that it's a single paragraph: My Christmas gift to those Gentle Readers who have suffered along all those pages from Halloween night to this morning, Christmas morning. ;-)

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Chapter Seventeen: Vinod's Vermillion Sunset
Wishing for forgiveness, searching for peace, praying for blessings: all readily heard at the crossing place where India’s Ganga and Yamuna Rivers flowed at the City of Allahabad, Holy Land.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Trusty Steed Freckles and Miss Eryn send their regards, this Christmas Eve, 2025. 😃❤️🎄🎅🐾🦴💤
December 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Signed, Sealed, and Stuffed with Cheer
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Signed, Sealed, and Stuffed with Cheer
Why Christmas cards and stockings still matter in a digital world! ;-)
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December 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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God and Scrooge: How Charles Dickens Pursued 'Real Christianity'
Who was Charles Dickens, the man who brought us characters like Scrooge and Tiny Tim? His work is still studied today, but few know about his faith.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The pretty church where a favourite Christmas carol was heard for the first time
The vicar of St Mary's in Primrose Hill helped create a book of hymns that included In The Bleak Midwinter and the now familiar tune to O Little…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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A day or so ago, the great-great-great-great-great...well, you get the picture...Charles DIckens's descendent gave a lovely Zoom preso on A Christmas Carol.

Six Weeks to Write a Masterpiece by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley.
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Six Weeks to Write a Masterpiece
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December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM