On Thursday, February 16, at 6:30 pm in the Main Meeting Room, Willy Vlautin will present a program that combines music and literature. Vlautin will read from his Oregon Book Award-winning novel Lean on Pete as well as play songs which inspired the book.
Would you like to participate in a community-based book giveaway to promote reading? World Book Night will be here on April 23, but you need to sign up here by Feb. 1. World Book Night is a charity dedicated to the promotion of literacy and the celebration, sharing and enjoyment of reading among teenagers and [...]
Last fall the Library and Friends of the Library hosted Visions of Home: a Reading and Discussion with local authors George Estreich, Marjorie Sandor, and Charles Goodrich. It was a fabulous evening with a great discussion and a nice community turnout. Recently we found out that both Marjorie and George are 2012 Oregon Book Award [...]
Lots of folks are thinking ahead and have asked what tax information and tax help will be available at the library and other local sites this year.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to show my appreciation more, so let me start by thanking all of you who read this blog, use library resources, ask us questions, and give us suggestions and inspiration. You are great! Just for fun, here are a sampling of resolutions for 2012 from library staff across [...]
Click on the picture at left to get to Booklist’s Top 10 Crafts & Gardening books of the year. Want other hand picked titles and well-written book reviews?
Don’t forget to drop in tomorrow –Friday–between 11:00 and 1:00 for our ebook and ereader clinic. Here is a link to the blog post with more information. It’s time now to book your January appointment with a librarian for basic computer help. Click here for more information. The library will be open during the holidays [...]
I asked some of the Adult Services Librarians to share their favorite books from 2011. The list that follows is an interesting and eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction and includes some titles that are new to me and maybe to you as well. Happy reading!
I recently heard an NPR story about the new book, The unconquered, which tells of a tribe of several thousand people in the Amazonian rainforest that has never had contact with modern civilization. My curiosity aroused about the Amazon region, I browsed the catalog and found these three additional books that are similar in scope [...]
I like this time of year for curling up with a book. It’s partly the rain and short days that make this appealing, and partly the need to take a little break from the frenzied holiday season. Why not escape into the past with a good historical novel?
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