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"Secret Lesbian Sex Threesomes" Libel Lawsuit Against Kentucky 2022 Teacher of the Year

Here's the exchange, from defendant's declaration in Hart v. Carver (D. Md.): And here's the defendant's account of the facts (which is considerably more detail than the account in the plaintiffs' Complaint): I was a classroom teacher in Kentucky from 2013 through 2022, and was the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of…

Reason · Sep 5, 2024

The beloved best-selling books on Amazon, from Colleen Hoover to ACOTAR

Keep up with the kids and delve into the current popular literature

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2024

Fictional sleuth Sam Spade will be back on the job in upcoming novel by Max Allan Collins

The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2024

Melania Trump promotes new ‘deeply personal’ memoir with dramatic video

Ex-First Lady says her forthcoming book will ‘clarify the facts’

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2024

Five of the best books translated from Polish

The wide breadth of Polish humour and humanity is all here, from reportage and absurdist satire to historical epics and soulful poetry

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024

Nadine Dorries pledges to expose 'Westminster group sex parties' in bizarre book ad

FOR everyone that didn’t read Nadine Dorries’s first book about the shadowy figures plotting to bring down democracy in the UK, there is another…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 5, 2024

How Sigmund Freud attempted to solve the ‘riddle’ of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius

The idea that prowess in activities like playing chess or writing poetry might be “fuelled” by frustrated, unconscious sexual desire is fairly well known today. But writing more than a century ago, Sigmund Freud was considered radical in his explanation of how sexual impulses could be transformed into creative or…

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2024

Melissa Lucashenko wins $30,000 prize for novel that ‘elevates our understanding of Queensland’s soul’

Edenglassie, about the colonisation of the place now called Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the state’s 2024 literary awards

The Guardian - AU · Sep 5, 2024

90 Years Later, The Weirdest Lord of the Rings Character Just Got Even More Elusive

Tom Bombadil has made his long-awaited live action appearance in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.' But do we know more or less about now than before?

Inverse · Sep 5, 2024

What women fantasise about – according to Gillian Anderson’s unflinching new book

From doing it with Harry Potter characters to craving good old fashioned tenderness, it’s all there in this new collection of fantasies

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2024