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What do I want (or need) from my retirement? Maybe you want to buy a vacation house on the beach, or travel the world, or just spend time with friends and family. No matter your goals or the path you ...

The Erie County Public Library promotes awareness of banned books, including through exhibits created for the Lake Erie Lit Festival help in September. Reasons for book challenges range from profanity ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...

There’s a typical mourning period that comes with the debut of a new season, one that hits particularly hard at the end of another glorious summer. The beach umbrellas are put away, the smell of ...

Damali Peterman, left, is the author of "Be Who You Are to Get What You Want: A New Way to Negotiate for Anyone Who's Ever Been Underestimated." She joined Shazi Visram, founder of Healthynest and ...

It’s true, summer’s essentially over. But if you’re sad about all the beach days you didn’t take, let the thought of sweater weather boost your spirits: cozy afternoons spent wrapped in blankets, ...

Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...

Our favorite new art books span museum insider accounts, histories of protest and fresh takes on how images shape politics. Courtesy the publishers This year may be more than halfway over, but it has ...

Columbus, Ohio — After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things — a very long list of every book he had ...