Idle Hands and Audio Books: Beginning Knitter Guide
With the temperature dropping and shorter days upon us, my passion for indoor hobbies like fiber arts and craft-making are reignited. In fact, my favorite way to enjoy these hunker-down hobbies … Continued
New Locally Produced Title: Supernatural Pittsburgh and Its Suburbs
LBPH is proud to share a new locally produced title available for loan or for download from BARD. Supernatural Pittsburgh and Its Suburbs was narrated by volunteer Paula Collins. This … Continued
Preservation Highlight: A look into history through Harper’s Bazaar
There is no arguing the magnitude of the fashion and culture magazine Harper’s Bazaar. Sometimes it can be easy to forget how long this publication has been around, and how … Continued
A Lifelong Love of Reading
The simple act of reading to your child, even an infant, helps to build their early literacy skills. Those skills will support them when they are old enough to start learning how to read on their own. But, wait! The goodness doesn’t stop there.
Best of BARD: October 2017
In October, Sue Grafton leapt up one spot from her place in September. Otherwise, all of October’s top downloads are new titles and new authors. Do you know what that … Continued
New Locally Produced Title: Darkness Visible
LBPH is proud to share a new locally produced title available for loan or for download from BARD. Darkness Visible: A Novel of the 1892 Homestead Strike was narrated by … Continued
Get to Know the Discworld
A librarian who happens to be an orangutan (and likes it that way, thank you very much). An enchanted piece of luggage that follows its owner everywhere, whether he wants … Continued
Lovecraft!
I find that readers either like HP Lovecraft or hate him, or have never heard of him before. Not many are ambivalent. The man wrote wonderfully creepy and demented books, … Continued
Come Write In With Us!
It’s time again for National Novel Writing Month and the Library is here to help our local writers reach that 50,000 word goal! This year, seven locations will be hosting Write-In … Continued
A Basic Gal’s Guide to Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park. Where do I begin? I really liked this book, but I wish I could pinpoint the exact reason why, since really it has all the odds stacked against … Continued