Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikki High is taking a big leap with Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena. She's had her moments of doubt, but concluded, "We have to ...

Every year, the Seattle Public Library partners with local independent bookstores and arts organizations to invite the city to read and celebrate one book as part of its Seattle Reads program. This ...

Her love for books landed her in the exact area of the author who inspired her. Nikki High signed a lease on a 621-square-foot space on Pasadena’s North Hill Avenue to open her Black woman-owned ...

Grant Hoskins noticed the uptick of people coming in for a certain book after the fires. The Vroman’s bookseller saw all sorts of readers, teens, college students, parents and grandparents, “as broad ...

Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she was still a child. Her mother was a maid who often had to bring her daughter along on cleaning jobs. And she was hampered by dyslexia, was sheltered by ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote ...

For years, Nikki High dreamed of opening a bookstore — but not just any bookstore. High wanted to cater to people who don’t always get to read about characters who look like them. Although she had a ...

Nikki High, owner of Octavia's Bookshelf (all photos by and courtesy Rio Apollonia De Leon) LOS ANGELES — Nearly 40,000 acres have burned in Southern California in the last two weeks, with at least 25 ...