Books and Authors

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (159+ words) A patron identified only as John walked into Concord Public Library with a magazine that was 48,220 days overdue — a September 1894 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine that had been sitting in his house for decades. Under the library's theoretical…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (276+ words) Hannah Selinger, a Massachusetts-based instant USA Today bestselling author, wrote Valley of the Moms, a domestic thriller published through Little, Brown and Company in June 2026 that drew narrative inspiration from Parent Teacher Organization disputes in suburban Hamilton, Massachusetts, according to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (258+ words) The novel follows two young women drawn into a mysterious secret society in 1950s Cambridge. TODAY co-host Jenna Bush Hager revealed her Read With Jenna book club selection for September 2026, choosing Alice Hoffman's novel 'The Witches of Cambridge.' The announcement aired…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) Come celebrate library card sign-up month at the Cambridge Public Library by getting a library card. Anyone who comes into the Cambridge Library and signs up for their first library card, or refers a friend to get a library card,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (417+ words) Tickets for the return of "The Book of Mormon" to Springfield go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Aug. 21 for a single performance at the UIS Performing Arts Center on Feb. 10, according to a community announcement. The award-winning musical is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) The head of a Worcester cannabis dispensary is authoring a book based on his own experiences with co-parenting and navigating the family court system. Ulysses Youngblood, co-founder and president of Major Bloom, is working to release his book “Playing Your…...