Today in History (August 29)
1838 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years 1883 First Carnegie library financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland, the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world 2023 Freida McFadden’s The Coworker published Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back 2023 Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias is published A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret 2023 Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel is published Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective, it is a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, investigating what it means to be an intergenerational, Indigenous survivor of Residential Schools.