“I want to read more this year” is a common New Year’s resolution, for good reason: Reading, especially fiction, provides ...

The Sears Wish Book, initially known as the Sears, Roebuck Christmas Book, was last published in 2017. According to reports, Sears Wish Book was printed from the years 1933 to 2011 and was once again ...

On Christmas morning, I knew my prayers had been answered even before I ripped the paper off; I’d memorized the exact weight ...

Twas a time before Amazon and all through fall, American children feverishly devoured every page of newly arrived Sears, ...

Little was known about the manuscript, which donated by Edward Ayer, a tycoon who made his fortune supplying railroad ties.

Major contractions in the independent book distribution space, an explosion of artificial intelligence tools and businesses, ...

Before long, JCPenney got into the catalog business, issuing its own twice-yearly big books along with the smaller, but more important, Christmas catalog. Years later, when I worked for JCPenney ...

This book picks up with Violet's journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies who will stand with Navarre when the time comes – but she's keeping a secret so big, it could destroy ...

The FT’s books of the year special is out, and today, our literary editor Fred Studemann and outgoing deputy books editor Laura Battle join us one last time to talk about their top picks of 2024.

Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by Edward Ayer, a ...

I sometimes have to force myself to read longer works--big books like the aforementioned The Lord of the Rings or Stephen King's The Stand, perhaps--as a sort of mental workout. Technology giveth ...