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10/16/2026

We agree with For Reading Addicts! Teach your children early and read WITH them often!

10/16/2026

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting.

10/16/2026

"If this is your vibe, we (City Center Gallery and Books) need to be friends."

10/16/2026

Happy Birthday Oscar!

"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." —Oscar Wilde

10/15/2026

On the Road: The Original Scroll is Jack Kerouac’s unedited, 120-foot single-sheet manuscript typed in April 1951, released in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of the novel's publication.

10/15/2026

Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard is a part-history, part-memoir, and literary exploration that uncovers the hidden complexities, dark themes, and social backstories of classic and contemporary picture books.

10/15/2026

In the Words of E. B. White offers readers a delightful selection of quotations, selected and annotated by his granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The quotations cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles, Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather, Work, and Worry. E. B. White comments on writing for children, how to tell a major poet from a minor one.

10/15/2026

Friedrich Nietzsche was born on this day in 1844.

10/15/2026

Remembering P.G. Wodehouse on his Birthday. (1881-1975)
P. G. Wodehouse was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Best known as the creator of Jeeves, the supreme “gentleman's gentleman.”
He's humor is characterized by its whimsical, light-hearted tone, and features a sophisticated use of language.

10/14/2026

Sylvia Plath's extraordinary poetry collection pushes the envelope between dark and light, between our deep passions and desires that are often in tension with our duty to family and society. In these powerful poems about identity, water becomes a metaphor for the surface veneer that many of us carry, but Plath explores how easily this surface can be shaken and disturbed.
Published in 1971 posthumous.