Here is Your Indiana Government, a biennial publication of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce is an excellent resource for learning about Indiana's government. It contains: Descriptions and contact information for the various government offices throughout the state. An explanation of how the voting process works. An explanation of how the legislative process works. Links for [...]
THERE’S AN ELECTION COMING UP, and there’s a lot of things to do to get ready! It can be pretty overwhelming, and you might even be thinking it’s not even worth it. Well, all the friendly staff here at the library can make it easy for you. Here is all the information that you need [...]
Join us for Mix-It-Up Monday, a weekly teen program on Monday nights from 5:30-7 PM. The first Monday of the month is our Teen Advisory Board meeting and the last Monday is typically our Anime Club meeting, but we'll be doing a variety of programs on the other nights of the month (come to our [...]
We've all done it - I know I have. Someone asks us what we like to read, and even if we're honest, we might mention certain genres sheepishly or with the caveat, "Yeah, that's one of my guilty pleasures." Why do we sometimes feel guilt or shame for reading what we want to read? [...]
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacobs (2018; 355 pages) Mira Jacobs starts this book with a conversation she had with her biracial (half-Jewish, half-Indian) 6-year-old son who is starting to get obsessed with Michael Jackson. Like all children, he has a lot of questions: “Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?” “Is that [...]
Books have been made into movies and television shows so often in the last few years that it can sometimes be a surprise to learn that a given media property isn't based on a bestselling novel. With the spring release of the film After, the 2014 novel by Anna Todd has seen a burst in [...]
Have you tried Playaways? Playaway audiobooks are self-contained devices that play audiobooks. They run on a battery (provided by the library at check out), so you can just plug in headphones or connect to your car stereo with a male to male cable and go! We've even got cables you can check out to connect [...]
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill By Abbi Waxman 2019, 332 pages As I was straightening the Lucky Duck books last Monday evening, I happened upon The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. It was initially the contrasting teal and goldenrod coloring that drew my eye and then the title piqued my interest. Once I [...]
If you're looking for a super charming, cozy but not TOO cozy story set in a picturesque small town, pick up Evvie Drake. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (2019; 304 pages). Evvie was leaving her husband. She had packed bags, she had a plan of where she would go, she was loading up [...]
The Dark Crystal (1982) Jim Henson’s cult classic fantasy movie is set in an ambiguous “another world, another time.” The Dark Crystal followed Jen and Kira, last survivors of the Gelfling race, and their mission to restore a missing shard from the Dark Crystal before an apocalyptic planetary conjunction. But their quest will take them [...]
