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New regulations from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are causing confusion with the Inside Books Project, a group that's been supplying literature to inmates for nearly three decades.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library delivers free, age-appropriate books monthly to families with children ages 0-5.

The collection of creative and scholarly works traces Selena Quintanilla-Perez's lasting impact.

The board will have multiple opportunities to revise the list before a final vote in June. Before recent changes, the proposal's length, lack of diversity and Christian focus received criticism.

Oklahoma Republican lawmakers in the Senate advanced a measure to ban books containing sexually explicit material from public school library shelves on Wednesday, but as some Democrats have pointed out, it's not clear what that means.

Bookmarked, based in North Texas, advertises itself as "antivirus for libraries."

The list includes Julia Ioffe, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award; R.L Stine, author of the popular series Goosebumps; and best-selling author Peter Swanson.

A Waco judge this week made permanent a block on a state law that required book vendors to rate materials based on their sexual content and references.

Since 2020, many new bookstores have opened across the state.

House Bill 900 requires book vendors to rate all their materials based on their depictions or references to sex before selling them to schools. Vendors say the law aims to regulate protected speech with “vague and over broad” terms.