Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh ...

“We still need to purchase shelving for the library books and need help in finding the funding necessary to do so,” she said. On April 10, Corning Friends of the Library met with Red Bluff ...

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But why stop there? The Bay Village Tree Conservancy, a 100 percent volunteer-driven organization, has also lent a huge hand this year in bringing this story to the children in a way that helps ...

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, has purged hundreds of books from its library — including "How to be Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi — as part of a push to eliminate diversity ...

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In 2014, a small group of learning advocates at the UCC undertook a university-wide book-sharing program inspired by the "Share a Book, Bless a Life" of the Chua family. The UCC effort started as ...

Geri Horner has dropped the biggest hint yet that the Spice Girls are set to reunite as a five piece. The singer 52, formed the band in 1994 with Mel B, Melanie C, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham.

Ellen Raskin designed the first-edition book cover; she later wrote The Westing Game, which won its own Newbery. Ellen Raskin When Léna Roy was 7 years old, her teacher read the first chapter of ...