It was an afternoon of quiet reading, reassurances and belly rubs at Urbana Regional Library Sunday.
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Jonathan Rée has written a different kind of book with “Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy into English.”
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The county could soon reach a goal of 500,000 minutes of reading time.
Author Jenni Williams has always loved dogs but for a long time never owned a pooch herself. That all changed when she fostered her first dog.
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hal…
For one day this spring, visitors to the C. Burr Artz branch of Frederick County Public Libraries will be able to check out a person and learn from them.
Jonathan Rée has written a different kind of book with “Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy into English.”
NEW YORK — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world’s most popular writers, died Friday at age 92.
The county could soon reach a goal of 500,000 minutes of reading time.
Author Jenni Williams has always loved dogs but for a long time never owned a pooch herself. That all changed when she fostered her first dog.
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that’s been speculated about for decades.
The first thing to come on is the classical music. It sets the mood, he says. It’s nice background music that doesn’t interfere with your thoughts.
Anne Kemp is feeling romantic this holiday season as she’s one of 11 authors who are part of the ebook box set “Romancing the Holidays.”
Frederick author Reiner Prochaska combines World War II history, intrigue, action and romance in his novel “Captives.”
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Elizabeth Knapp, an associate professor of English at Hood College, won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Requiem …
Most people know Meg Tilly as the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress in 1985’s “Agnes of God.”
The Frederick County Public Libraries will no longer charge overdue fees on children’s materials, starting Oct. 1.
The first thing to come on is the classical music. It sets the mood, he says. It’s nice background music that doesn’t interfere with your thoughts.
Anne Kemp is feeling romantic this holiday season as she’s one of 11 authors who are part of the ebook box set “Romancing the Holidays.”
Frederick author Reiner Prochaska combines World War II history, intrigue, action and romance in his novel “Captives.”
Noel Ignatiev, a onetime factory worker who became a Harvard-trained scholar and advocate of eliminating what he considered arbitrary racial c…
Elizabeth Knapp, an associate professor of English at Hood College, won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Requiem …
Most people know Meg Tilly as the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress in 1985’s “Agnes of God.”
The Frederick County Public Libraries will no longer charge overdue fees on children’s materials, starting Oct. 1.
James Geary’s “Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works and Why We Need It” is a multifaceted work that explores an ill-defined but instantly reco…
James Geary’s “Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works and Why We Need It” is a multifaceted work that explores an ill-defined but instantly reco…
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solo…
Magic Warfield posed for a photo Tuesday afternoon with an orange Popsicle in one hand and a bright red card in the other.
The only thing better than a good read is a good summer read, in my opinion.
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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 …
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.
Magic Warfield posed for a photo Tuesday afternoon with an orange Popsicle in one hand and a bright red card in the other.
The only thing better than a good read is a good summer read, in my opinion.
SAN DIEGO — “Game of Thrones” may be over but the cast can’t seem to get away from stray coffee cups.
ROME — Author Andrea Camilleri, creator of the best-selling Commissario Montalbano series about a likable, though oft-brooding small-town Sici…
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 …
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…
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