Editors of Il Giornale said it was part of efforts to help people understand the Holocaust

An Italian newspaper has provoked outrage by giving away copies of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf for free.

Il Giornale, a right-wing daily based in Milan, was handing out the book to whoever purchased the newspaper and first instalment of William Shirer ( Read more... )

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As the Obama administration prepares to release for the first time the number of people it believes it has killed in drone strikes in countries that lie outside of conventional war zones, we look at a new book out today that paints a very different picture of the U.S. drone program. "The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone ( Read more... )

Church leader pushing petition to ban certain books at Austin Memorial LibraryA Shepherd [TX] minister is leading a petition to have certain books removed from the shelves of the teen section at Austin Memorial Library ( Read more... )

By Abraham Riesman

Monday, July 7th, 2014


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When libraries shut down, what more besides is lost, asks writer AL Kennedy.At the end of May, Rhydyfelin Library was closed. Library users chained themselves to the shelves, obtained a judicial review and, to cut a complicated story short, a small Welsh town had to fight to keep its books - and, in the last few days, may have managed at least a ( Read more... )

My 5-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl ( Read more... )

The director of the Hudson Falls Public Library in New York has advised 9-year-old Tyler Weaver to drop out of their summer-long “Dig Into Reading” program.

Why? The fifth-grader simply reads too much.

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Was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved children’s series written as an anti-New Deal fable? The Wilder family papers suggest yes.

A few months after the stock market crash, in the winter of 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat at a small desk in Mansfield, Mo., and began writing down her life story in pencil. She had rattled in wagons from cabin to sod ( Read more... )

Intense and immediate backlash apparently changed the mind of Juror B37 - and her agent. “I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before …”


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