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Manga romance covers.
As a new year dawns, so do the opportunities to seek and find new connections! These manga series look into two vastly different ways of how sometimes relationships get complicated!
LEGO figure with hardhat wears shirt reading LEGO contest 2018.
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Registration for the 8th Annual LEGO Competition is open! Calling all brick builders—kid, teen, and adult! 
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Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess

The second story from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess is a tale of a prince who loves himself so much that he cannot see his own defects.

Movie poster for Their Finest showing three characters from the movie.
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As we leave behind 2017, check out Legends of Film host Bill Chamberlain's picks for best overlooked movies of the year.
Book cover for Tales of Two Americas, stories of inequality in a divided nation.
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Was your New Year’s resolution to be kinder to people?  You should read this book.
B&W older promo shot of author Sue Grafton.
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Sue Grafton, author of the Kinsey Millhone alphabet mysteries and legendary pioneer for women in detective fiction, died last week at the age of 77.