We all have those friends who have always been naturally smart at chemistry or even got into an Ivy League school, so it always comes as a surprise when they are completely defeated by everyday life.

If you’re smart, you probably love books. If you’re not, putting a bunch of them on a shelf might help fool people into thinking you are. Either way, everyone needs books, and this weekend’s Used Book ...

So many folks say, "Street-smarts are what helped me succeed in the world," but, on the other hand, book-smarts are often thought of as the lesser cousin to street-smarts. I'm lucky enough to be ...

The two organizations have a combined annual budget of nearly $5 million. When Dani Swope set out to donate her children’s retired books in 2007, she had no idea she would go on to found a nonprofit ...

Halloween costumes can carry over into November for book smart adults throughout Macomb County this year, when the Clinton-Macomb Public Library hosts its Adult Battle of the Books. The Clinton-Macomb ...

Kids and books have always been at the heart of the work that both SMART Reading and Children’s Book Bank do. The two Portland-based nonprofits have just gone about the work differently. Now, the ...

At first, David Cancel just wanted to focus on building new and interesting tech. A century-old autobiography helped the serial entrepreneur adjust his priorities. Early in the pandemic, Dan ...

In her quest to improve early childhood literacy, Maya Payne Smart takes adults back to the basics of the basics. Just as her husband, Marquette University men's basketball coach Shaka Smart, breaks ...

I CAN GET IT FOR You WHOLESALE— Jerome Weidman—Simon & Schuster ($2). Boys in Manhattan’s public schools are taught, among other things, that honesty is the best policy, that Kipling’s It is a great ...

The closest that Julie Wieringa ever comes to actually touching the instruction manuals she writes for Cisco Systems in Seattle is when she presses the send button to transmit her copy. But on her own ...