Booksellers Savor Sweet Smell of Sanders' Success
Just a week after Rep. Bernie Sanders' Freedom to Read Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State (CJS) Appropriations Bill passed a House vote, Jack Buckley of Ninth Street Book Store in Wilmington, Delaware, recalled first speaking to his congressional representative, Mike Castle (R-DE), about amending Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.
Alex Scott was a little girl with big problems and big ideas. Her battle with neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, cut her eight-year life short in 2004, but her legacy lives on. Her remarkable initiative, to raise awareness and dollars for pediatric cancer research, was the inspiration behind a complete fundraising guide, Alex's Lemonade Stand Book and Kit, published on May 30, by Running Press/Perseus, in time for this year's Alex's Lemonade Stand Weekend.