Melville House Books

Jennifer Frances began distributing free books to school-age children in her native Tampa almost a decade ago. In 2010, sponsored by Florida-based Transitions Optical, and a host of other donors… Read more »

  (Via Shelf Awareness, via CBC) When a neighbor threatened to burn her deceased husband’s collection of 350,000 books, bibliophile Shuanna Raycraft of Saskatchewan offered to rescue them. After 9 months she and her… 8 / Read more »

Insane memoir fabulist Greg Mortenson is still up to no good, according to a new investigation by Newsweek’s Mike Giglio. On April 25th: [P]olice responded to a call from Mortenson’s… 12 / Read more »

Just days removed from being announced as the first Scottish writer to become the Children’s Literature Laureate of the UK, Julia Donaldson has put her foot in it. The Herald… 2 / Read more »

Internet Archive wants to collect all the world’s books LA Noire video game book Angry Birds video game (cook)book Orange prize 2011 goes to Téa Obreht A country without libraries… Read more »