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NEWS Corporate Identity Logos Books & Bards has won a 2025 Creative Muse Award for our new logo. The new Books & Books logo reflects a...

Buy Now Book Review Released February 4, Source Code, the first of a three-part memoir series by Bill Gates, focuses on his early life,...

Short Story by William Weger Halloween Series I don’t have much time left. The full moon will rise soon, and I feel compelled to share my...

Short Story by William Weger Halloween Series The main doors at Corbett’s opened promptly at 10 o’clock. The Saturday morning shoppers...

Book Trivia: Moby Dick by Herman Melville - "Call Me Ishmael." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - "I am an invisible man." Pride and...

Literature Essay: Herman Melville, on writing Moby-Dick or, The Whale, keenly observed that “to produce a mighty book, you must choose a...

Literature Essay: Shirley Jackson has in recent years enjoyed a revival of sorts. Some might say she has become a literary pop icon. Her...

Literary Essay: “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that." These rather grim words began A Christmas Carol...

Literature Essay: “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where...

Literature News: The American Association (ALA) released its annual list of the most challenged books of 2020. The ALA Office of...

Poetry News: April 2021 marks the 25th Anniversary of National Poetry Month, which reminds the public that poets have an integral role to...

Books & Bards News: Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. To celebrate Poe's birthday, Books & Bards, originally called Classic...

Lit News: Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was an English writer who crafted some of the world's most famous classics,...

Online Literary Store Specializes in Classics and Literary Merch Classic Booklovers (now Books & Bards) was founded in 2016 on January 19...