books

The progressive Grand Rapids book store Books & Mortar turned a complaint for a prospective customer into an opportunity to give back to the community.

The Grand Rapids Public Library already has you covered the next time you wonder "what book should I read?"

Been wanting to get into a new book but haven't been able to visit the library? Good news! GRPL will now deliver books to you for free!

Looking for something new to read? Check out these 20 books that are set in or about Michigan, or written by a Michigan author.

Amazon today announced its best-selling books of 2014, just in time for you last-minute Christmas shoppers. What luck! "The Invention of Wings," by Sue Monk Kidd, is the best-selling book overall; and John Grisham’s latest novel, "Gray Mountain," is No. 2. "The Heroes of Olympus Book Five: The Blood of Olympus," by Rick Riordan, is the best-selling kids' and teen-ager

The website Rooster Teeth recently held a 24-hour live stream fundraiser to raise money for Children's Miracle Network hospitals. Nearly $250,000 was raised, which is pretty awesome. Besides raising a ton of dough, one of the highlights of the fundraiser was when LeVar Burton, of "Reading Rainbow" fame appeared and read the book "Go the F**k to Sleep" to a group of people g

Here’s something worth reading.

'Game of Thrones' creator George R.R. Martin's infamous "Red Wedding" chapter has been available to read in 'A Storm of Swords' for the better part of 13 years now, but only recently have more casual fans of the HBO series adaptation been aware of the bloody massacre from Sunday's "The Rains of Castamere." Filmed fan reactions to the event made the rounds this week, but what do

In the late '80s/early '90s, how many of you were glued to books by people like Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine and A. Bates? Long before 'Twilight,' these young adult authors were churning out sordid tales of psycho teenage killers, body-switching beautiful girls and revenge fantasies that also somehow involved final exams.

Reading to a child is essential to their growth, and most children's books address similar topics of sharing, accepting who you are and eating your vegetables. We found some gems from the children's literature department, though, that made us pause and say WHAT?!?!

Today's reading experience is nothing like the literal "page-turners" of yesteryear. But even with the e-Book, the Kindle and the iPad at our fingertips, we can still spot a wacky romance novel cover from a mile off.

College students in the U.K. have helped make a new sex book a bestseller.  Author Sheridan Simove recently released the book "What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex," which features 200 BLANK pages.