This week’s staff pick is Here by Richard McGuire. This graphic novel doesn’t follow any specific story or characters, but instead has a simple concept. Each page is a wide shot of the same exact location spanning tens of thousands of years. Within that same page, separate and sometimes intersecting panels show […]
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At 28 years old, Eli “Berg” Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn’t push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into […]
Our 2018 Summer Reading program is nearly over! This year’s theme is Libraries Rock! To celebrate, we’ve put together a display featuring music (in CD format) and biographies of some of the best known rock musicians. Here are a few standout titles: Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury by […]
On this day in 1862, renowned American geologist Florence Bascom was born. She was the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1893, and she was the second woman in the United States to earn a PhD in geology. She also went on to be the […]
The FIFA World Cup 2018 is underway and nearing it’s finale! Held every 4 years since 1930, the World Cup is one of the most prestigious and widely viewed sporting events on Earth. This year’s Cup matches will be held at multiple locations all across Russia (the host country), lasting […]
In Convenience Store Woman, protagonist Keiko Furukura finds herself living at odds with the expectations put on her by Japanese society. At 36, she has been working at the same convenience store since she was 18, has few friends, and has never been in a romantic relationship. Her family is baffled by […]
Friday, 7/13 @ 2pm: Black Panther (2018) T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. (from IMDB) Rated PG-13. 2 hours and 14 […]
The 4th of July has been well-known to Americans since the country’s founding 242 years ago. It’s the day that we celebrate our nation’s declaration of independence from Great Britain. But did you know that this date has other historically important things attached to it? For starters, both John Adams and […]
This week’s Staff Pick is Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea: the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. With a sharp sense of pacing and clear prose, Crowley tells the story of the struggle between two Mediterranean Sea powers and their allies during the […]
“Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in […]