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Across the country, librarians drive around 650 bookmobiles, providing a vital service in rural areas with limited access to libraries and the internet. Most importantly, says a Kentucky librarian Sandra Hennessee, her bookmobile helps provide a sense of community. 

Booksellers in Spain are using a digital tool built with 17th century 'Don Quixote' to recreate a banned book and protest censorship. In the digital age, banning books is 'ridiculous and anachronistic,' the Madrid Booksellers's Guild says. 

A library on wheels, the blue bus of Kabul is giving children in war-torn Afghanistan the opportunity to read. The initiative is a step toward reducing the country's 62 percent illiteracy rate.

A small New Hampshire town library offers a model of how others can step in to provide information for communities in 'news deserts.'

Cynthia Bond's novel "Ruby" is set in Texas and tells a fierce and poetic tale of a worldly, beautiful black woman, Ruby Bell, and her struggle not to be destroyed by her home community of Liberty Township.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder autobiography 'Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography' sales have taken off. And sales are likely to get another lift from a Google Doodle on her 148th birthday.

Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14.

Former Navy SEAL, Matt Bissonnette, filed a lawsuit against his ex-lawyers for advising him it was OK to publish his book about the Osama bin Laden raid. The book  "No Easy Day," prompted a Pentagon inquiry that evolved into a criminal probe by the Justice Department.

The Frenchman has written about the German occupation of his country during World War II.

The Nobel prize for literature has gone to well-known authors long lauded by critics, but just as frequently plucks unknown authors from obscurity.

"Archie: The Married Life Book Three" was removed from bookshelves because it featured same-sex marriage. Last week, Singapore's National Library Board said it would destroy three children's books seen as being pro-homosexual.

First lady Michelle Obama said that Maya Angelou told black women that "our worth had nothing to do with what the world might say."

George Patton book: Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of Henry Holt and Company, announced Wednesday that 'Killing Patton' will be published on Sept. 23.

LeVar Burton was the host of 'Reading Rainbow,' the children's literacy program that aired on public TV through 2009.

Amazon and Hachette are reportedly at odds over terms for e-book prices, at a time when Amazon is in a position of strength and vulnerability.

Dana Perino, a Fox News commentator, plans to produce a book in 2015. The book's title: "And the Good News is..." Dana Perino was press secretary for President George W. Bush.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, considered the Mark Twain or Charles Dickens of Latin America, died Thursday. His works included 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' and 'Love in the time of Cholera.' Gabriel Garcia Marquez was the best-known practitioner of magical realism.

Mein Kampf lays out Adolf Hitler's vision for a resurgent Germany after World War I along with his racist National Socialist political ideology. While copies of the book "Mein Kampf" are not rare, editions signed by Hitler are scarce.

Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' sued Monroe County Heritage Museum for using her name and her book without compensating her.

Jimmy Carter's next book will defend women's rights and challenge the use of religion to deny equality, reports Simon & Shuster, who have published several of Jimmy Carter's books.