Nov 04 2018: The plea went out a few weeks ago from October Books in the port city of Southampton, England: “Care to lend a hand?”
Volunteers were needed to help the store move to a new location about 500 feet down the road--a move made possible by a fundraising campaign that ...
Oct 26 2018: What started as Glory Edim's Instagram account has grown to a book club, a festival and now, a book, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves.
Well-Read Black Girl started as an online community in 2015, when Edim launched an Instagram account...
Oct 24 2018: Evelyn Anthony, who wrote more than 50 novels, including The Tamarind Seed, which was turned into a hit film in 1974, has died aged 92.
She was an unlikely pioneering feminist. The daughter of a wealthy naval hero who married a director of an international mining ...
Oct 24 2018: The groundbreaking comics author has bequeathed his fantasy universe to a new generation of writers, who reveal their changes to his unconscious world...
When Neil Gaiman announced in March that he would be returning to the world of Sandman, the comic that made his ...
Oct 24 2018: To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted by viewers of PBS's Great American Read as America's #1 best-loved novel.
The show aired its final episode on Monday evening. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series came in at #2, followed by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Jane ...
Oct 19 2018: Todd Bol, founder and executive director of the Little Free Library who "spent much of the last decade working towards his vision of a world where neighbors know each other by name, and everyone has access to books," died October 18. He was 62. LFL noted that he "was ...
Oct 18 2018: Nearly a dozen San Francisco bookstores received a special gift from the city this week — $103,000 in total grant money to help them through a time when books can be delivered to one’s door at the click of a mouse.
And that’s exactly why the funding is so important, ...
Oct 18 2018: The Crown Publishing Group has joined the Random House Publishing Group in a newly-combined division reporting to current Random House president and publisher Gina Centrello, who has been named president and publisher of the new supergroup, Penguin Random House US CEO ...
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