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The American Library Association received the largest gift in its 150-year history: a $25 million bequest from James W. Lewis ...

James H Jackson, who has died aged 61, was a risk analyst and authority on counter-terrorism, and drew on his expertise to ...

When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her ...

Aurora Borealis Charter School, Redoubt Elementary, Homer Connections and Homer High School will represent the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District in the State Battle of the Books Championships ...

Day, the world has had a chance to honor the Allied troops who invaded Normandy in 1944 in the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history. It ...

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The acclaimed Chinese-cuisine chef and writer reflects on stories of foreign travel in China, and what it feels like to fall ...

Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

Hartwell is a jovial guy, as eager to talk about Hemingway as he is to sell you a book. He claims his grandfather, Vollie Hartwell, taught a 9-year-old Ernest how to fish, walking down the same ...