The Harvard Crimson

Artist Profile: Mary Pope Osborne on Rekindling Wonder through the ‘Magic Tree House’ Series

After 66 "Magic Tree House" books and 143 millions copies sold worldwide, beloved author Mary Pope Osborne is far from done.
SussexWorld on MSN

Church services in Bexhill and Battle

Read here to find church services and events in your area.
Smithsonian Magazine

Fervent Fans of ‘Moby-Dick’ Flock to This Massachusetts Town to Read the Book Cover to Cover

Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

Who Is Ann Lee? What The Testament of Ann Lee Gets Right and Wrong About Shaker History

Which parts of the movie are rooted in history, and which are the speculative stuff of Lee lore?
Smithsonian Magazine

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.
The Bucks County Herald

Beloved Doylestown children’s bookseller Ellen Mager has died

Ellen Mager was an institution in Doylestown Borough. From her tiny children’s bookstore tucked away just off Printer’s Alley, she reigned over Booktenders' Secret Garden for nearly four decades.