On Thursday, the Hereford Cathedral School in the U.K released the fact a book that had been overdue for 120 years had been returned. After her husband passed away, 77-year-old Alice Gillett began ...

April 23 (UPI) --In celebration of Thursday's World Book Day, we're looking back at some of the most astonishing tales of overdue library books that were returned more than 100 years late. Thursday ...

The book called "Your Child, His Family, and Friends" was checked out in July 1943. Someone recently returned with a letter that said they found it in their father's belongings after his death and ...

March 4 (UPI) --Workers at a library in England got a "huge surprise" when a pair of books that were 50 years overdue turned up at a thrift store about 60 miles away. The Leeds City Council said in a ...

What’s the longest you’ve ever held onto a library book? If your answer is anything less than four decades, one St. Louis reader has you beat. Last Friday, the St. Louis Public Library finally ...

DETROIT — Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer: You can keep it — and no fine. Chuck Hildebrandt, 63 ...