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RALEIGH — Dead men tell no tales, but there’s new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have discovered shreds ...

This week: Producer George Ingmire and I begin a new series, Thinking Outside the Book, about the unusual uses and pleasures of books in readers' lives. First up: A visit with Eli Boyne, library ...

The fragments eventually were determined to be from a 1712 first edition of a book by Capt. Edward Cooke titled 'A Voyage to the South Seas, and Round the World' You can save this article by ...

To contact Mary Greenwood, email [email protected]. Joan North's "Fragments of Grace" is a novel that sometimes reads like a mystery or memoir. In the opening scene, Grace is at her own funeral. Soon ...

Fragments of a lost ancient Roman law text have been rediscovered in the scrap paper used to bind other books. The Codex Gregorianus, or Gregorian Code, was compiled by an otherwise unknown man named ...