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Spell books, dragons, mermaids, fairies and a magic circus all take on new life in the pages of these five enchanting tales hitting shelves in May and June.

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Camille Dungy describes her years-long project to transform her weed-filled, water-hogging, monochromatic lawn into a pollinator's paradise.

Book-lovers are buzzing about Independent Bookstore Day on April 29. BLMF Literary Saloon owner J.B. Johnson says owning a bookstore isn't easy but it is the greatest job in the world.

The iconic children's author has been tackling criticism and censorship long before the current trend sweeping American libraries.

During the Roaring Twenties — the Jazz Age — the second era of the Ku Klux Klan reached new heights, far more widespread than the first following the Civil War. How millions of people in the U.S. came to embrace the white supremacist group is the subject of Seattle author Timothy Egan’s new book “A Fever in the Heartland.”

After years as a correspondent, host and singer (on the side), NPR's Ari Shapiro has compiled many of his stories into a new memoir.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Laura Krantz about her children's book: The Search for Sasquatch. Krantz hopes to model how to balance curiosity and exploration with staying grounded in the facts.

Donna Barba Higuera, 52, lives in Issaquah, practices optometry in Bellevue and recently won the Newbery Medal for “The Last Cuentista.” Get to know the author in this conversation.

Amazon is closing all of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, as well as its 4-star shops and pop-up locations, as the online retail behemoth reworks its physical footprint.

In his early 20s, Maksim Goldenshteyn had only just learned about his family’s history during the Holocaust. His new book tells a compelling story about how his grandfather and other family members survived World War II and how their lives unfolded afterward.