It is important to read books that have been banned. As I have trudged through the long list of books that are banned in Alpine School District, I have picked out a few that have caught my attention.

When a book is banned or removed from library shelves, my usual response is to read the book to see what all the fuss is about. That was my response to an ADN report that the Mat-Su Library ...

When my children visited our local library or their school library, they were free to access books that had been selected by professional library staff. What our kids ultimately read was decided ...

The Turkish Academy has announced the approval of a 34-letter Common Turkish Alphabet for Turkic languages. The decision was made during the third meeting of the Common Turkic Alphabet Commission, ...

"The Book Thief" by Zusak, set in Nazi Germany, tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl who steals books to cope with war. It highlights the power of literature to save lives. Susan Orlean's ...

Once upon Argentina (Rs 1,500, Open Letter Books) by Andrs Neuman is a family history of the acclaimed Argentinian writer that’s somewhere between fact and fiction. He tells the story of growing up as ...

Read all about his trip and see Santa fly over many landmarks in Minnesota, including the Foshay Tower, the State Capitol, Split Rock Lighthouse, and more. Another Minnesota alphabet book! This one is ...

It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that a book dedicated to a decade in the life of a couple, written by their child and based on the discovery of a cache of old love letters, could be a ...

There has been a good book devoted to the tulip (Anna Pavord ... Joanne Bourne, author of Flint: A Lithic Love Letter She’s the most romantic of archaeologists. While she alludes to some ...

Up to three times a day, sometimes during Commons debates, even in Cabinet meetings, he penned 560 letters in total ... “For anyone reading the book, I think the chief emotion will be ...