My husband and I started out married life in an apartment near the University of California, Berkeley. When I began working in the library there, I wou...
My husband and I can never resist a sign that says “library book sale.” On an autumn afternoon filled with brilliant colors and summer-like temperatures, we followed the sign, wonde...
At the age of 15, Moina Belle Michael was already teaching school. She went on to graduate from Columbia University. Later, while a professor at the University of Georgia, she taugh...
I first heard about Bookcrossing.com from my Scottish reading friend, Allison M. She writes in her blog about releasing three books "into the wild" on her holiday to Poland recently...
For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.(Song...
On a bright Chicago morning, Christie Edwards faces a life-altering decision. She is attending an awards ceremony at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and she must make a surprising ch...