Before Christmas, Joseph Sparks set out to buy a Bible, along with various other books, for a boy at his church in West Philadelphia. Sparks, now a Delaware County resident, knew exactly where to go. Sparks...

Pádraig Ó Tuama, theologian and poet, and Marie Howe, the 2012 State Poet for New York, held a poetry reading in honor of those who are marginalized by the Catholic Church on Oct. 29 in the Cardinal...

Johannesburg, South Africa -- For 10 years, Love Books, a small independent bookstore on the edge of the Melville neighborhood in Johannesburg, has catered to local bibliophiles and authors who love books....

Author speaks about underrepresented women Award-winning author and former St. Joe’s adjunct professor, Carmen Maria Machado did a reading from her book of short stories, “Her Body and Other Parties.”  Machado...

Local poet visits St. Joe’s as part of reading series.  Sarah Blake, an established local poet, visited St. Joe’s on Feb. 22 as part of a mini-reading series tour from her most recent publication,...

Why "The Snow Child" is a great spring read Magic, love, despair, hope and snow. Only in Eowyn Ivey’s novel “The Snow Child” do all of these terms converge to create a realistic fairytale as beautiful...

Gillian Flynn's second novel is a hidden treasure Are you seeking a thrilling, complicated mystery novel full of twists and turns that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page?...

A heartwarming story for the winter Some novels are simply read and tossed aside without so much as a second thought. Other truly special novels stick with you for months or even years afterward, having...