Sometimes a book just gets loved to death. A Bible, or a copy of “Charlotte’s Web,” for that matter, can be opened only so many times, even by the gentlest reader, before its spine weakens ...

Deb Caletti, an Issaquah author and past finalist for a National Book Award, will speak at the Bellevue Regional Library annual fall ... County Council will hold a public hearing at 1:30 p.m ...