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Announces that in February, Black History Month, the University of California Press will release `Call to Serve,' the first of 14 volumes of `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.' Proposed publication over the next 20 years; The project's beginning in 1984 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, in Atlanta; Others involved; Special direct-marketing push to libraries and public schools; More.

"The Last Hour Between Worlds" by Melissa Caruso is a fast-paced interdimensional fantasy novel that takes place in a city-state called Acantis. The protagonist, Kem Thorne, is a Hound responsible for investigating murders and finding lost children in the Echo layers, alternate realms that become increasingly dangerous the deeper they go. When Kem attends a New Year's party, the guests are poisoned and the mansion falls into Echo 1. Kem must team up with her nemesis, Rika Nonesuch, to escape before midnight. The novel combines action, worldbuilding, and eccentric characters in a captivating way. [Extracted from the article]

Reports on acquisitions by the New York Public Library. Its acquiring the archives of Ecco Press and Antaeus magazine, as well as editor-in-chief Daniel Halpern's working papers; The correspondence that the collection includes.