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Pembrokeshire Libraries has extended its popular Order and Collect service to Crymych Library. Located at Ysgol y Preseli, the library becomes the latest in the county to operate the service, which is already available at libraries in Fishguard, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven, Narberth, Newport, Neyland, Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, Saundersfoot and Tenby. On weekdays, orders can be placed online via the Order and Collect form at pembrokeshire.gov.uk/libraries-reopening, by e-mailing george.edw...

Learn more about classic fairy tales at the library Annie Gilmer, Shreveport Times For this week’s library column, I thought I’d have fun with random holidays again. So, this week, specifically on February 26, you can celebrate Tell a Fairy Tale Day and I’ve got several suggestions for how you can observe this quirky, unofficial holiday.  But before I get into how to celebrate this holiday, I think I should at least briefly talk about what a fairy tale is. For instance, M...

‘The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret’: Writing Illness, Health and John Keats In honour of Keats200, the bicentenary celebration of the poet John Keats’s life, works, and legacy, poet Amy Mackelden has set us a new challenge. She offers writing prompts and poems that explore illness, and use our bodies as inspiration. The challenge: write a poem inspired by John Keats, illness poetry, and the pandemic John Keats was born in London in 1795, and in his short life made a huge impact on Eng...

Reply Heres a look at some of the most popular library books in Bristol and Warren over the past year. (Rachel Nunes/Patch) BRISTOL-WARREN, RI — Thousands of books were checked out of the libraries in Bristol and Warren over the past year. Some titles were more popular than others. At Rogers Free Library in Bristol, large-print book editions were very popular over the past year. Below, Patch has listed the top 11 titles checked out from the library. Electronic materials, which "make up a si...

The Human Cell Atlas: A Poetry Challenge What do cells and words have in common? This winter, we’re asking you to find the connections between biology and poetry. This challenge is now closed. Congratulations to the winners, whose poems you can read in the sidebar. Congratulations, too, to the longlisted poets whose work impressed the judges: Madeleine Aase-Remedios, Sairah Ahsan, Aliyah Begum, Alex Bond, Dale Booton, Dillon Butt, Jack Cooper, Faith Cunningham, Eleanor Dakin, Kaycee Hill, Han...

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CBS News The Book Report: Gift ideas for book lovers By Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles:  Theres no better gift than a book this holiday season. Here are a few titles your friends and family might love: My favorite novel this year is "Homeland Elegies" (Little, Brown), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. Part memoir, part fiction, this remarkable book tells the story of a Pakistani-American and his father who have very different reactions to the rise of Donald Trum...