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August 28, 2020
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 | Tour de France The 2020 Tour de France begins on Saturday, August 29 through September 20. The three-week long event was originally scheduled to take place from June 27 to July 19 but was postponed because of the pandemic. This year marks the 107th edition of the event and the first time since the end of World War II that the race is not taking place in July. The 23 day Tour also features 12 new sites and stage cities. There will be one stage contested per day and two rest days. The first rest day is on September 7 (between stages 9 & 10) and the second will be on September 14 (between stages 15 & 16). There will be a total of 176 riders-22 teams with 8 riders per team. There are 21 stages: 9 flat, 3 hilly, 8 mountain stages, and 1 individual time trial. The start of the 2020 Tour (known as the Grand Départ) is planned to be in Nice. This would be the second occasion that the city has held the Grand Départ, the first being for the 1981 Tour de France. Learn more and check out these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Ali Smith Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her. Check out her books here. |
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 | Indie Next September 2020 The Indie Next List epitomizes the heart and soul of passionate bookselling. Independent booksellers are and have always been discoverers of the next big thing, the next great read, the next bestseller, and the next undiscovered gem. Check out the September 2020 picks here |
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| Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.-Maya Angelou
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