Have you ever wondered what a library director does? Or is that just me? Well if you ever wondered, keep reading because last week I spent an hour with James Kelly, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, to pick his brain about what he does and why libraries are (still) so important.
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Frederick businessman George Delaplaine Jr.’s memoir begins in the winter of 1895 when his grandfather helped organize a collection of food fo…
SAN DIEGO — A century-old tree with a long trunk and bushy branches that some believe was the inspiration for fictional Truffula trees in Dr. …
BOSTON — Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of “Confederates in the Attic,” has died. He was 60.
Two local authors spoke to an audience of about 70 people Thursday night about a book they recently published titled “German Immigrants, Ameri…
LONDON — Judith Kerr, a refugee from Nazi Germany who wrote and illustrated the bestselling “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” and other beloved chil…
Sometimes, in the course of our hectic lives, it’s easy to forget — or not even notice — the little things that make living in Frederick Count…
Frederick businessman George Delaplaine Jr.’s memoir begins in the winter of 1895 when his grandfather helped organize a collection of food for the needy, got pneumonia while distributing the food and later died.
SAN DIEGO — A century-old tree with a long trunk and bushy branches that some believe was the inspiration for fictional Truffula trees in Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” has fallen in a coastal San Diego park.
BOSTON — Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of “Confederates in the Attic,” has died. He was 60.
Two local authors spoke to an audience of about 70 people Thursday night about a book they recently published titled “German Immigrants, American Pioneers: The Brunners of Schifferstadt.”
LONDON — Judith Kerr, a refugee from Nazi Germany who wrote and illustrated the bestselling “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” and other beloved children’s books, has died at the age of 95.
Sometimes, in the course of our hectic lives, it’s easy to forget — or not even notice — the little things that make living in Frederick County great. In that spirit, I launched, “What I Love in Frederick this Week”: the best food, drink, shows, shopping, and events coming to the city. If yo…
I got to celebrate a birthday for this week’s column, and that birthday was for a very important children’s book.
NEW YORK — David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who documented the centrality of slavery in Western culture through a landmar…
The author of “The Book of Unknown Americans” discusses her best-selling novel and literary influences ahead of her Frederick Reads appearance.
The line of people started outside the bookstore and wrapped around East Patrick Street all the way down to the Carroll Creek parking garage. …
At the Curious Iguana’s next book signing, kids will get a chance to learn more about tigers, rhinos, and whales — and say hi to Chelsea Clinton.
WARSAW, Poland — Priests at a Catholic parish in northern Poland have drawn criticism after they burned books, including from the “Harry Potte…
It comes as no surprise that Curious Iguana, at 12 N. Market St., gained recognition by book lovers everywhere.
I got to celebrate a birthday for this week’s column, and that birthday was for a very important children’s book.
NEW YORK — David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who documented the centrality of slavery in Western culture through a landmar…
The author of “The Book of Unknown Americans” discusses her best-selling novel and literary influences ahead of her Frederick Reads appearance.
The line of people started outside the bookstore and wrapped around East Patrick Street all the way down to the Carroll Creek parking garage. …
At the Curious Iguana’s next book signing, kids will get a chance to learn more about tigers, rhinos, and whales — and say hi to Chelsea Clinton.
WARSAW, Poland — Priests at a Catholic parish in northern Poland have drawn criticism after they burned books, including from the “Harry Potte…
It comes as no surprise that Curious Iguana, at 12 N. Market St., gained recognition by book lovers everywhere.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy has spent much of his adult life crusading for the issues that are important to him and n…
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy has spent much of his adult life crusading for the issues that are important to him and n…
Rachel Ingalls, an expatriate American writer who made her home in London, where she died March 6 at 78, was “not exactly a hermit,” she once …
After recently penning a book about his first hand account of heading the Beltway snipers investigation, David Reichenbaugh stopped at C. Burr…
RAPID CITY, S.D. — “You don’t see alpacas in the library every day,” Charlotte Preble said as she stood next to three of the tall, woolly anim…
Neither Valerie Jean nor Elayne Bond Hyman spent their entire lives in Frederick County, but both have deep roots in the area — roots that ext…
The sheer number of Google results for Roberto Bolaño are a testament to the Chilean author’s popularity, even if that interest only emerged f…
A new location for letterpress printing, photography, book binding and fine printing opened up in Frederick and will soon be offering classes …
The inside of the Wonder Book warehouse on Tilco Drive is a bibliophile’s dream — roughly three acres packed with millions of books, all on so…
LONDON — British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher, whose family saga “The Shell Seekers” sold millions of copies around the world, has died, her age…
NEW YORK — The author of the best-selling “The Flower Drum Song” has died. C.Y. Lee, whose novel was adapted into a Rodgers and Hammerstein mu…
After recently penning a book about his first hand account of heading the Beltway snipers investigation, David Reichenbaugh stopped at C. Burr…
RAPID CITY, S.D. — “You don’t see alpacas in the library every day,” Charlotte Preble said as she stood next to three of the tall, woolly anim…
Neither Valerie Jean nor Elayne Bond Hyman spent their entire lives in Frederick County, but both have deep roots in the area — roots that ext…
The sheer number of Google results for Roberto Bolaño are a testament to the Chilean author’s popularity, even if that interest only emerged f…
A new location for letterpress printing, photography, book binding and fine printing opened up in Frederick and will soon be offering classes …
The inside of the Wonder Book warehouse on Tilco Drive is a bibliophile’s dream — roughly three acres packed with millions of books, all on so…
LONDON — British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher, whose family saga “The Shell Seekers” sold millions of copies around the world, has died, her age…
NEW YORK — The author of the best-selling “The Flower Drum Song” has died. C.Y. Lee, whose novel was adapted into a Rodgers and Hammerstein mu…
Valentine’s Day is next week. Most people are planning their romantic dinners with their sweetie and getting their orders in for a bouquet of …
LONDON — Diana Athill, a writer and editor who honed the work of novelists including John Updike and Margaret Atwood before finding late-life …
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