The author of “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway” guides us through his personal library. Amor Towles sketched out ideas for his novel “The Lincoln Highway” in these notebooks, which he ...

In a public library, styling a bookshelf is easy: Just fill it with books. At home, a bookcase needs to do a lot more than hold books. So how do the pros do it? Start by thinking of your shelves as a ...

In Book Nooks (Chronicle, Sept.), design director Vanessa Dina and food and lifestyle associate editor Claire Gilhuly, both with Chronicle Books, share functional and aesthetic ideas for displaying ...

Readers can now search, reserve and renew books at home thanks to an upgrade at the Tomah Public Library. The new program was launched Thursday. “It can be frustrating for people to want to search our ...