It's Banned Books Week! Tennessee Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee shares a few of its favorite challenged or controversial books.

Here are two free, low-barrier roleplaying games that can be enjoyed solo or with family and friends.

UK's most intrepid musical occultists present four extended tones intended for spiritual transportation.

A music theorist deep dives into a genre often dismissed as having no substance.

Literature's fiercest firebrand gets a critical biography from the wife of her ex-lover.

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah tells stories from his unique childhood growing up biracial in South Africa.

This oral history of Russian women soldiers offers a fresh take on World War II history.

What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death.

An award winning game designer tells what it was like to be at the center of Gamer Gate.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the neighborhood where she lives and the prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer.

Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious.

What if the heart of terrorism was the American south?

What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them?

Commonwealth tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.

The long awaited first novel from George Saunders--a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented.

You've heard of Big Data? This is how it works.

In this big, wise, funny first novel, a resilient young woman brings an end to an age-old fishing feud.

Do they play backgammon at the Belle Meade Country Club?

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Did you accept the mission to build a better world with Star Trek this summer? Come to the Mission Accomplished! Summer Challenge Star Trek Party and celebrate all things Trek.

Aphex Twin was a set designer on Star Trek: The Next Generation?!

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.

What happens if all your dreams come true when you're still teenager? Usually, you become Justin Bieber. Wil Wheaton avoided the path taken by most child actors, but his journey was still as bumpy as it was beautiful.

Summer Challenge is the perfect time to do things with your family. Your space family from Star Trek: The Next Generation that is.

Accept the mission to build a better world this summer, and earn Summer Challenge points, with all things Star Trek.