The German polymath Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess in the High Middle Ages, developed a holistic view of healing while working in her monastery’s herb garden and caring for the sick in its ...

An Old Town Fort Collins bookstore has been sold to two longtime employees. Revati Kilaparti and Teresa Steele purchased Old Firehouse Books from Susie Wilmer, who is retiring. The new owners plan to ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — At WPTV, we're always listening, connecting and working to support our community, especially our youngest learners. This week, that mission came to life at Weatherbee Elementary ...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes viewers back around 90 years from the start of Game of Thrones, focusing on a different side of Westeros life. Rather than putting the onus on the political ...

Louisiana Inspired Book Club is inviting all readers to join in and read the first book for 2026: "Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi. This small underdog of a book was self-published in 2023. It became a ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

Last Thursday in Montgomery, the Alabama Public Library Service board voted to move any book that discusses “being transgender” out of children’s and teen sections and into the adult stacks—“weeded ...

A 17-year-old was identified Thursday as the victim of a fatal shooting on Fort Wayne’s south side, the Allen County coroner’s office said. Nyree K. Jones of Fort Wayne died Wednesday of a gunshot ...

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WASHINGTON — This week marks Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of literature that has drawn the ire of governments around the world. The American Library Association puts on the weeklong event ...