As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

The Fort Collins bookstore recommends a story about a girls grunge band, some nonfiction about religious abuse and a nocturnal mystery.

The library announced on Facebook that their long-lost book had been returned to their collection after a Boston resident found it and gave it to the Cambridge Public Library. The book was "The Early ...

CORRECTION: A photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about Barbara Heritage’s job. She is the director of collections, exhibitions and scholarly initiatives at ...