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A public library in Ohio is celebrating the life of one of its most loyal patrons, a retired social worker named Dan Pelzer.

Fighting Back Against Censorship On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Emerson Sykes, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, to unpack the growing wave of book bans and attacks ...

The book ban bill vetoed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte would have allowed parents to request books, films, and other items that depicted nudity and sexual contact to be removed from their child's school.

From our summer round-up of Books We Love, NPR staffers give recommendations for books they literally loved - all about romance.

There is magic at work in this week's batch of new books. Not just the old literary sorcery by which words summon worlds for readers, but also literal, honest-to-goodness magic: angels, conjurers ...

Tonight in Jungleland' details the making of the breakthrough album, with insight from the Boss and E Street Band members.

An oral history of the atomic bomb detonations 80 years ago leads this week's list of publishing highlights, which also ...

On July 18, NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket mission from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, carrying a remarkable new technology. Its goal is to capture high-speed, ...

A state program that allows libraries to borrow books from each other is on hold until August, after which, the State Library of Iowa will scale back deliveries and pickups of interlibrary loans ...

10 best fantasy books from The Lord of the Rings to A Wizard of Earthsea From literary classics to modern phenomena, here are our top reading picks from the fantasy genre.

Here are some books you will absolutely want to pick up at their airport, including The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas and Men in Love by Irvine Welsh.