Many students are finishing up their required reading for the semester, and the summer beach reading season is less than two months away, but there is never really a bad time to open a good book. In ...

For visitors to Florence, Palmetto Peddlers offers a unique way to take home a piece of South Carolina history. Rather than a mass-produced souvenir, you might find a vintage postcard of local ...

The thrill of the hunt is alive and well in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, where the Goodlettsville Antique Mall stands as a monument to nostalgia, craftsmanship, and the stories objects tell when they’ve ...

A new breed of bookstore hyphenates serve cocktails, wine and dinner with their bestsellers to keep the literary good times rolling.

Everything you wanted to know about Cher and more arrives on shelves in the new book, "I GOT YOU BABE: A Celebration of Cher.

Built-ins might not be the most aesthetically pleasing part of your home, but Joanna Gaines has tips for updating them to ...

The redesign is, frankly, ugly, and not even ugly in a good way. To complain about the ugliness of the new Ferrante cover is to acknowledge that the old Europa Editions were also ugly — but those were ...

Designer Matt Stevens reimagines movies like ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Inception’ as covers in a book out this week from Chronicle ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others.

They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the Middle Ages, animal skins were the material of choice, but these covers were made from ...