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Children's Books: All About Pandas

With the Beijing Olympic Games just around the corner and the animation film 'Kung Fu Panda' a summer draw at the box office, children have lots of questions about giant pandas.

Dying Darfur: Sudan Genocide Subject of New DVD, Book

Sudan coverage may be missing from American news these days, but Janjaweed ethnic cleansing, financed by Chinese oil money, goes on every day. A new film on DVD and a book of photographs call us to remember those dying in Darfur.

Children's Books: Christmas Carols in Spanish and English

Deck the Halls with Alma Flor Ada's new book about Hispanic Christmas traditions in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain.

Book Review

David Thomson's The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is a reference book with 1300 biography entries about movie stars, film directors, hollywood movie actors and actresses from Julia Roberts to Ben Affleck to Orson Welles to Tom Cruise, stephen Spielberg among others.

Book Review: Great Dreams of Heaven: Stories by Sam Shepard

Great Dreams of Heaven is the second collection of short stories by Pulitzer Prize playwright and oscar nominated actor Sam Shepard.