She founded the Oklahoma City Metro Literacy Coalition, which helps adults and children alike improve their reading skills. Its participants vary wildly in age. “I had a 69-year-old grandma call me last week, looking for help on statistics,” Surbeck said. She said the coalition’s purpose is getting people aid they need through their database of […]
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Fast Company / Fast and Loose / Fast and Furious
For the record, the titles in question on this single-disc set from Warner Archive are Fast Company, Fast and Loose and Fast and Furious. Don’t let that third title make you believe they’re about racing cars; they’re not. They are about finding books. And that may be why neither you nor I have heard of […]
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The reading dead
The actor, best-known for playing the now-deceased T-Dog in TV’s smash-hit series The Walking Dead and Alton in the Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side, was all smiles as he walked into the Barnes & Noble at 13800 N. May this afternoon to promote his book, Blindsided by the Walking Dead. A line of waiting fans […]
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‘Whole’ living
He’s founding president of the Health Alliance for the Uninsured and creator of The Art of Happy Living podcast. Now he can add “book author” to his list of titles. It might be one reason his office bookshelves, while filled with volumes on psychiatry and mental illness, also have room for a copy of Stephen […]
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A new chapter
Located at 2914 S.W. 59th, the site previously served as a temporary location last year while the Southern Oaks Library, 6900 S. Walker, was undergoing renovations. Books and furniture had been moved to a former department store location in the Almonte Shopping Center. But library officials soon noticed that patrons were flocking to the temporary […]
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Looking Askew
“Your grandpa is a felon,” Sweet tells her 10-year-old nephew, Dustin. “A felon and a Christian. He says he’s a felon because he’s a Christian. Now, what kind of baloney is that?” So begins Rilla Askew’s newest novel, Kind of Kin, released this month. In it, she captures the trials of a woman trying to […]
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Crossing over
Oklahoma is known for being a dry, flat land where tornados cause most of the excitement. With his new novel, Silver Cross, B. Kent Anderson brings spy-thriller action to the state scene. Silver Cross is his sixth novel, and the second to follow the adventures of small-town Oklahoman college professor Nick Journey and federal agent […]
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Spooky scribes
If Alice thought Wonderland was bad, then Zombieland would have had her begging to be hassled by a disgruntled patch of daisies again. Author Gena Showalter’s new series, The White Rabbit Chronicles, begins with Alice in Zombieland, a novel based on Lewis Carroll’s adventurous heroine. Showalter, an Oklahoma City native, is the best-selling author of […]
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Digging it
With his debut novel, Zombacter: Center City Contagion, Oklahoma City’s Sean Bingham has created the contingency plan and the apocalypse scenario to go with it. The first book of Bingham’s undead trilogy, Zombacter was published by Severed Press, an independent company that specializes in survival horror. It is Bingham’s first novel. A Georgia native, he […]
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God and science
Dr. Brad Strawn In The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, & the Church, author Brad D. Strawn explores how developments in modern science have changed ideas of spirituality, and the implications for the church. The book argues against the long-held theological view that a soul provides the spirituality and mental capacities of a […]