As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...

Hundreds of millions of books end up rotting away in landfills every year. Instead of letting your old ones do the same, why not find a way to repurpose them around your home? If you like birds and ...