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?
A few years ago my 14-year old niece who lives in Ohio asked some of her aunts and uncles living in Pennsylvania, Washington and Oregon, to “read a book with her”.
Play Ball! I know baseball season starts in the springtime, but for me, baseball goes best with warm summer nights.
If it’s summer people must be getting married. I just heard that New York City, expecting a record number of marriages to take place in the city this Sunday, has instituted a lottery to determine who will get one of 764 marriage licenses available for that day.
Our recent list of staff picks have been posted! Click here to get to the link on our website. You can always find the list by clicking on our Books link on the library homepage.
What makes you happy?
Critics, librarians, and journalists have all been weighing in with their summer reads. We asked our Facebook friends what they would put on a summer reading list, and here it is:
School is out this week and it seems like lots of folks are getting ready to leave town. If you’re anything like me, you might find preparing for a vacation pretty exhausting. Wouldn’t it be great to have a personal assistant to help with the packing, pet sitting arrangements, last minute trips to the store [...]
Do you find it hard to wait for book that has a holds list? Here’s a suggestion: book pairings. I’ll tell you what I mean.
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