Book lauding Cary’s ex-town manager as ‘change-agent’ cost the town over $150K

Records show Cary paid over $150,000 to write and promote a book about its former Town Manager’s leadership. Not everyone ...
Shaw Local

Yorkville Public Library holds winter reading challenge for kids

Kids can pick up their Winter Reading Tracker and receive a free set of mythical creature playing cards. Continue to collect ...
IEEE

Out-of-Order and Recursive RAS: A Return Address Stack Design on High Performance Processor

Abstract: In high-performance processor design, maintaining Return-Address Stack (RAS) integrity is crucial for efficient instruction flow. Yet, separating multi-level branch predictors from ...
The Boston Globe

Boston Public Library reveals its top 10 checked out books of 2025 list

Move over Spotify Wrapped: Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025. In addition to looking back at the year’s top ...
The Guardian

‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I ...
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Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?

Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided favourite: a survey of Australian publishers after last Christmas reported print books ...