At a time when Christianity was first starting to take root in England, a teenage girl was buried still wearing the stunning gold and jeweled cross she had sewn to her clothing during her short life.

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The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

Bands fall apart every day – but these splits were absolute carnage: betrayal, addiction, lawsuits, and wounds that still ...

What if reading could help us heal? That’s the wager some doctors are taking these days — prescribing books alongside medication. Here’s a look at stories that might just do you good.

In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist ...

AFTER living with a Sunbury family for the past year, labrador puppy Saxon is ready to start seeing eye dog training. The pampered pooch has had much love from his owners of the past year, the ...