As our communities wrestle with loneliness, pleasure reading and the libraries that sustain it offers an affordable path to ...

You might be paying too much for your e-books when you can get them for free from your local library and read them right on your Kindle, Kobo, or even your phone. A lot of people don't realize their ...

Mychal Threets still remembers the voices his grandmother used to come up with when she read him children’s books. “She just went all in,” he said. Threets was home-schooled for most of his childhood, ...

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