Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Richland Public Library has checked in a book that was due 63 years, 11 months and 1 day ago. But despite the extreme ...

A classic novel was returned to a Colorado library more than 100 years overdue – with fines that would have been in the thousands of dollars in line with inflation if the library system still imposed ...

A library in New York got quite the surprise in late September when it received a returned book that was nearly nine decades overdue. "We recently received an interesting package sent here from ...

April 23 (UPI) --In celebration of Thursday's World Book Day, we're looking back at some of the most astonishing tales of overdue library books that were returned more than 100 years late. Thursday ...

David Gallagher was looking through boxes in his elderly neighbor's San Francisco basement after her death earlier this year, when he spotted a literary treasure: a worn first edition of Edward Weston ...

Washington County Free Library eliminated overdue fines on most materials checked out on or after July 1, with exceptions for ...