A letter from Secretary of State Tre Hargett prompting public libraries across the state to submit a review of their collections has led to the removal of nearly 3,000 books in one county. The letter ...

Dimitris Economou returned this copy of Harry the Dirty Dog 36 years after his parents checked it out. Fairfax County Public Library Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

Dimitris Economou was visiting his parents in Greece and looking for a book to read to his 7-year-old son when he found a copy of the children’s book “Harry the Dirty Dog” on his dad’s bookshelf. He ...

Alabama readers love a good novel. All of the most commonly checked out books from public libraries in the state’s two largest counties were works of fiction. And many were parts of series. The most ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --An overdue library book was returned to the Chantilly Regional Library after 36 years and a trip to Greece. The Fairfax County Library system posted about the book's return on Facebook ...

Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery drew the most readers. "James" by Percival Everett, the Pultizer-winning ...

These are the books New Yorkers couldn’t get enough of in 2025. The city’s three public library systems—the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public Library—have released ...

Massachusetts Democrats are leading a pushback against what they call "politically motivated book bans" with a bill that would set new rules for challenging books in school and public libraries. The ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a lawsuit over public library books in the Texas Hill Country, leaving in place a ruling that gives local governments and elected officials wide latitude ...