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Alumna Marie Vibbert debut novel hits shelves on March 9

Marie Vibbert was 15 years old when she first drafted Galactic Hellcats. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer.  “I don’t know if there has been a minute since I was 11 that I haven’t been writing a novel,” Vibbert said.  In 2012, she revisited that draft of Galactic Hellcats during a write-a-thon where she vowed to write 50 short stories over the course of six weeks. After running out of new ideas, she cracked open old childhood notebooks to discover some really creative ideas written in purple pen. When she flipped to the idea that...

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Two New Children’s Books by Distinguished University Professor Thrity Umrigar Garner Strong Reviews

Two children’s picture books by Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English, have received positive reviews. Sugar in Milk (Running Press) received starred reviews from BookPage, Kirkus, School Library Journal, and was featured in the Wall Street Journal. It’s also an Amazon Editors’ pick  Binny’s Diwali (Scholastic) came out in September and receive a strong review in BookList.’

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