Thanks to a new Bookshop.org app, supporting independent booksellers has never been so easy. Here's how to buy and read ...

A new book vending machine at Webster Kindergarten Center will be used to reward students who demonstrate leadership qualities in line with the Leader in Me curriculum.

A handwritten letter sent by Jose Rizal to an Austrian journalist in June 1887 has been discovered in the Vienna City Library ...

Writer Val McDermid has spoken passionately about the impact of libraries on her young life as she launched the centenary celebrations of National Library of Scotland (NLS). The author was in ...

LED light therapy has long been used as a treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Research shows an improvement in ...

In 2014, for the BBC series Snow Wolf Family And Me, I travelled by helicopter to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...

Carley Fortune is known for her page-turning romance novels, and I inhaled this one in one sitting. It's set on Prince Edward Island and follows the love story of Lucy who meets her best friend's ...

“Memories are conjurings,” writes Lidia Yuknavitch in this quicksilver, expansive exploration of grief and hauntings (the ...

Rumaan Alam’s “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier’s “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko’s “Memory Piece” are among 13 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize.

An American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.