Posted on August 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Weekend Edition featured a new children's book called How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh; both the segment and the book celebrate the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne's first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh (NPR).
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Author Jesse Q. Sutanto has revealed the cover of her next Vera Wong book; Vera Wong’s Vacation Hacks for Catching a Killer comes out April 20 (Instagram).
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News from the Reacher universe: Lee Child and Yasmin Angoe will publish the novel Zero Margin, which follows the character Frances Neagley, on March 23; Neagley is also getting her own TV show on Amazon Prime (Bleeding Cool).
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Lucy Score is continuing her Story Lake romance series; you can read an excerpt of the next installment, Just One More Chapter, which comes out March 9 (People).
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An AirTag placed in a rare book that was part of a bulk order was traced to an Amazon AI training facility, continuing fears that AI companies are buying — and destroying — texts to train their product (Ars Technica).
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