In this special to stltoday.com, Repps Hudson reviews “Emancipation” by Michael Goldfarb. Goldfarb will be in St. Louis Wednesday.

Michael Goldfarb

When • 1 p.m. Wednesday

Where • St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, 2 Millstone Campus Drive

How much • $12 or included in…

Money is tight, so people are eager to sign up for library cards. This year, the St. Louis County Library not only surpassed its goal for signing up new borrowers, it more than doubled it.

More than 26,000 new members signed up…

The Borders Group announced Thursday (Nov. 4) it will close some 200 Waldenbooks stores across the country, including the one in the St. Louis Galleria. The Richmond Heights store is on the company’s list of “anticipated” closures.

According to Publishers Weekly:

The…

St. Louis artist John Hendrix’s book on John Brown has been picked as one of the best children’s books of 2009.

Publishers Weekly magazine, which this week released its roundup of the 100 best books of the year and the 30 best…

Leibman

Barry Leibman, co-owner of Left Bank Books, will be leaving the bookstore and St. Louis next year.

Leibman says he and his wife, Caroline, plan to move to the Seattle area.  He wants to try something new but doesn’t know what…

This week Harry Levins reviewed “Stylized,” a history of the classic guide to English usage. But at age 50 is “The Elements of Style” beyond its prime?

Guest blogger Harry Levins writes:

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of …

Rick Riordan, the popular author of books for middle readers, finished his Percy Jackson series with “The Last Olympian” earlier this year.

A movie for “The Lightning Thief,” the first book in his series featuring demigods from ancient Greece, comes out…

The online retailers that are selling copies of upcoming books such as Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” and Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” are now saying “not so fast.” Apparently they wanted to draw folks to their websites with the offers…

The Jewish Book Festival always includes a Missouri’s Own event. This year, it is Monday, Nov. 2, and features four authors. They are an interesting group. Some now live far away and write about things with lots of national interest. But at…

Publishers Weekly, which surveys some 50,000 books a year, has announced its first top 10 list.

Interestingly, it includes not a single book written by a woman. (This year, Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” won the Booker award and several novels by…