Get Your Butterbeer On At Starbucks
Starbucks has a sneaky, secret Harry Potter menu, and Entertainment Weekly tipped us on how to order a Butterbeer latte (“order a latte with whole milk and add pumps of caramel syrup, toffee nut syrup, and cinnamon dolce syrup”), and a Butterbeer frappuccino. Grab some coffee money at Gringotts and a copy of your favorite book in the series, then close your eyes and be transported to The Leaky Cauldron.
Limitations On Prisoner Access To Books
We got a couple stories about limitations on book access for prisoners on the East Coast. The ACLU wrote to New Jersey after Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book, The New Jim Crow, was banned at two jails. Following the article, New Jersey corrections officials said they will make the book on mass incarceration and racial discrimination available to inmates at all state correctional facilities. And, in New York, a new program is cutting people in prison off from all books except five romance novels, 14 religious texts, 24 drawing or coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 how-to books, one dictionary, and one thesaurus.
Irish Publishers Now Eligible To Submit Novels For The Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced that, as of 2018, “any novel written originally in English and published in Ireland by an imprint formally established in Ireland is now eligible for the prize.” The new rule aims to ensure independent Irish publishers have the same opportunity to be recognized by the prize as Irish publishers who have UK headquarters and are already eligible to submit titles.
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Today in Books is sponsored by As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti.
What if you could wish for anything—and get it?
Madison is a small town in the Mojave Desert on the road between nothing and nowhere. It’s an unremarkable speck on the map, which is perfect for protecting the town’s secret. Because in Madison, everyone can make one wish on their eighteenth birthday — and that wish always comes true.
Most of Eldon’s classmates have had their wishes picked out for months, even years. Not Eldon. He’s seen how wishing has hurt the people around him. His parents’ marriage is strained, his sister is a virtual ghost in their house, his ex-girlfriend is dating his ex-friend…where does he even begin?
One thing is for sure: Eldon has only twenty-six days to figure it out―and the rest of his life to live with the consequences.