The coveted peace prize of the German Booksellers' Association will go to German artist Anselm Kiefer this year, the organization announced on Wednesday, June 4.

Today's Wall Street Journal is reporting that publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are putting a temporary freeze on the acquisition of new books due to the overall economic slowdown.

Libraries are changing. Not only books but online features are driving up library use. Each year, 1 million books, DVDs and other materials go in and out of the Herrick District Library’s main branch at 300 S. River Ave. Another 250,000 circulate each

On the shelf: Compelled by Tecumseh's fiery oratory, in 1811 Red Stick Creeks embarked on a path resulting in a cataclysmic war that would rechart the course of Southern history.

“Oh, there’s two of us! I thought I was the only one.” That was local Republican Camila Sparlin greeting a woman holding a “Pitkin County McCainiacs” sign outside the Hotel Jerome Thursday afternoon while awaiting the arrival of presumptive Repu