A softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book has sold for just over $19,000, according to a Dallas auction house. ...more

March 10, 2009

DALLAS (AP) -- A softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book has sold for just over $19,000, according to a Dallas auction house. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was one of only 200 copies from the first printing issued with illustrated wrappers by London publisher Bloomsbury. The 1997 work about the boy wizard was published in the United States as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and includes an illustrated card signed by author J. K. Rowling. ...more

March 9, 2009

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" (Children's High Level Group, $12.99, 111 pages), by J.K. Rowling ...more

December 7, 2008

Just in time for the holidays, J.K. Rowling has given Harry Potter fans a little gift. ...more

December 4, 2008

Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA PALMS - Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. Liberty Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Short can barely make out images because of a genetic condition that has left him visually impaired. But it hasn't kept Peyton from his first loves of reading and writing. His passion for the written word was evident with his recent score on the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. He earned a perfect score, one of 22 students in his school to earn the top mark. ...more

June 10, 2008

LONDON - A British teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming "Harry Potter" film was stabbed to death during a brawl in London on Saturday, police said. ...more

May 25, 2008

Here's how "Grand Theft Auto IV" sales stack up against some other big hitters. ...more

May 9, 2008

The Upper Tampa Bay Regional Library recently celebrated its three-year anniversary. ...more

January 12, 2008

The SouthShore Regional Library recently commemorated its first anniversary with a daylong celebration that included a student art contest; cartooning class for children; a Ruskin history lesson by Fred Jacobsen, Mac Miller and Mark Dunn; piano performances by Manuel Escadero; the Front Porch Pickers; and a Harry Potter trivia contest. ...more

November 24, 2007