Edited by writer and activist, Jael Richardson, Today I Am is a collection of short stories written by emerging writers in ...

“The Diamond Mine” offers a brief, dreamy chronicle of a teenage girl’s sexual awakening with an Afrikaans soldier about to ...

In “Uncommon Weather,” Homer author Richard Chiappone finds a deeply human Alaska, where the true struggles of survival in ...

The Amazing Book Challenge returns for 2025 with 12 new themes designed to take readers on an unexpected literary adventure.

Books with mature themes will soon be relegated to an adults-only room in most public libraries in Kootenai County. The private room is a requirement of an Idaho law passed last year, and the ...

The book is short but packs a punch ... but its profound themes make it a must-read for adults as well. The story follows a pilot stranded in the desert who encounters a young prince from another ...

which almost functions as a short story/ victim profile in itself, also features an illustration by Bernie Wrightson. A fantastic choice for lovers of historical folklore and academia, The Book of ...

6. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) A love story and ode to books and the libraries that house them. 7. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

While many young people have embraced the graphic novel format, fewer older adults have. We grew up with comic books and with comic strips in newspapers, but the book genre called “graphic novels” ...