Interview with an Iraqi Refugee
An interview with an Iraqi refugee offers perspective on how the wars in Iraq affected civilians, and explains some of the library services we offer to refugees.
A Clean Slate!
With lots of cheer leading from my co-worker, I got the idea into my head to make soap myself. Here’s a list of some of my favorite soap-making books.
The Music Never Stopped
Fans of rock music know the Grateful Dead. For better or worse, love them or hate them, the Grateful Dead were an important and constant force in rock music from … Continued
A City Full of Mystery
Journey to the fictional city of Newford, full of magic and the unexplained. Award winning fantasy author Charles de Lint invites you to believe in the extraordinary.
We Are a Part of the Pollen-nation!
The Library’s BLAST team has been sharing fun pollinator facts with students during the last round of Thematic outreach programs which run from April-June.
Read Harder: Vol. 5
Follow along as I go for a reading adventure Book Riot’s 2016 Read Harder Challenge. In this episode, I look at Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, which covers the “read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender.”
Comics and Cons
Get ready for the next comic book convention with digital graphic novel offerings from Hoopla.
Reading for Writing and Loving
To get back in the habit of writing after a long hiatus, I am reading Dodie Smith’s (of The Hundred and One Dalmatians fame) classic 1948 novel, I Capture the Castle (DB … Continued
Adventures in Regional Cinema
Lately I’ve been thinking about the idea of regional cinema – smaller, independent movies that are so much about a specific region or place, that they could not have been filmed anywhere else. Check out one of these three great examples of regional cinema from the library’s film collection.
Read It Before You See It: The BFG
Before you head out to see Steven Spielberg’s next film, The BFG, check out the Raold Dahl book that inspired it.