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The fireproof book is a joint project that includes author Margaret Atwood, who in a video demonstrated its effectiveness. Here’s how and why the book was made.

Every year, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracks and records the most banned and challenged books in the U.S. Here’s the top 10 most banned books for 2021.

Nicole Vandeyar of the Cary Memorial Library recommends books about art for Arty April in recognition of World Art Day.

There’s an “Island of Misfit Toys” in the popular holiday classic. Now there’s an island for unwanted and banned books, too. The tiny library on Matinicus Island 22 miles off the Maine coast is on a mission to fill its shelves with books that have fallen out of favor elsewhere. From “And Tango Makes Three,” the story of two...

Brandon Sanderson asked folks on Kickstarter for $1 million to self-publish four novels he wrote during the pandemic. They funded him in 35 minutes.

Book banning is far from a new phenomenon, but incidents have been on the rise across the country the past two years. As Nora Pelizzari of the National Coalition Against Censorship points out, “Everybody is guilty at some point of trying to control the information that other people have access to.”

Ashley Bryan wrote and illustrated over 50 books. His work is remembered for highlighting the African American experience and cultural heritage.

In a 4-3 vote, the Wentzville School board voted to pull Toni Morrison’s first book, “The Bluest Eye” from every district school’s library.

“Maus” is a decades old book about Holocaust survivors. Its ban by a Tennessee school board has sparked renewed interest in it.

The auction of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library ended the same day that Justice Stephen Breyer confirmed he will retire this year.

Up to now, her most famous words are likely “alternative facts”

‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman spoke to CNBC after a school board in Tennessee voted to ban his landmark graphic novel about the Nazis’ persecution of Jews.

The highest bid so far: $18,000, for a signed copy of “My Life on the Road,” the memoir of leading feminist activist Gloria Steinem.

Grassroots organizations across the country battle prison restrictions and pandemic struggles to send books to incarcerated people.

In this month’s Page Turner, Cary Memorial Library’s Nicole Vandeyar suggests cozy reads for the winter season.

If the roughly 42% of Americans who do their jobs remotely could get their work done from home, what’s the reason for going back to the office?

Sharee Miller didn’t see characters who looked like her when she read books as a child. Today, as an adult, she is making her own books to help children of color feel represented, beautiful and proud. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Jersey City, New Jersey, to meet an author and illustrator who wants every child to feel...

Andrew Cuomo resigned as New York governor after multiple women said he sexually harassed them. He has now been ordered to repay money from a Covid book deal.

In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore.

Harper Collins had planned to publish Chris Cuomo’s book “Deep Denial” in 2022. Cuomo was fired by CNN over advising his brother, Andrew Cuomo.