Books

Those of you who consider yourselves bookworms, here's some news for you. Released from the Duluth Public Library. The Duluth Public Library's main library building at 520 W. Superior St. will be closed Monday, September 10, beginning at 1:30 pm.

Fans of the inspirational book series "Chicken Soup For The Soul" can rejoice:  They're about to get chicken soup for their bowl(s) - as the company gets ready to launch a line of actual soups that will hit grocery stores soon. A lot of marketing experts are wondering why the Connecticut-based company hasn't done something like this sooner...

Late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is as popular as ever, and the vocalist is getting yet another salute this year. Along with the upcoming documentary release, ‘The Great Pretender,’ which chronicles his life and times, there’s also a new book in the works titled ‘The Great Pretender: A Life in Pictures.’

Since 1963, elementary school children have cut their reading-teeth on the Encyclopedia Brown mystery series.  The author of Encyclopedia Brown - Donald J. Sobol - has passed away at the age of 87 in Miami, Florida. Sources close to the family say  that Mr...

Ray Bradbury,  considered one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, died earlier today. Bradbury authored "The Martian Chronicles", "Farhrenheit 451", and "The Illustrated Man"  to name a few. Bradbury once told an audience it cost him only $9...

The author of the classic children's book Where The Wild Things Are has passed away.  Maurice Sendak dies at the age of 83 due to complications from a stroke.

Any institute of higher education will consistently encourage you to read, read, read. When we graduate, many of us  drastically cut down our reading habits. Then there's the man who says, "If you worked where I work, when you come home at night you're beat...

Being a Stones lover since I first saw them on TV, I have collected photos over the years. Now, I can't find them. I must admit the thought of  700 photos of the Stones in a book is the solution to my problem. Something one can enjoy and also pass on to future generations too...

At last count, I have seventeen books on the Rolling Stones in my library, and I've loved the Stones since they first arrived on the scene in the early 60's..Still do,

Who woulda thunk huh? Rock n roll's original bad boy wins the Mailer Prize for his biography. Turns out this bad boy isn't all that bad after all right? On a night he was honored for his way with words, Keith Richards was clearly winging it...

Very few of us average American people ever get a glimpse of what really goes on in the life of the President. After reading this post, would you really want to be president...even for a day? Just after 9/11, during a trip to China with President George W...

Kudos to Amazon for starting the lending library. This is a major step in the right direction, and a quantum leap forward in the future of e books. Others talked about a library, Amazon did it. That's five stars in my e-book! Making its ecosystem just that much sweeter, Amazon today announced that Kindle owners subscribed to its premium Amazon Prime service will be able to borrow one e-book a mont