Today's a good day for reflecting and giving thanks. As per tradition, the Floyd County Library Blog Team would like to share with you the books we're most thankful for this year. Feel free to share a book you're thankful for in the comments! The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson (2022, 334 pages). [...]
Check out these books by and about strong political women! Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change by Danica Roem (2022). Also available on e-book in the Indiana Digital Library. The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and [...]
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples, also available on e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library. This month's pick for the Reading the Rainbow book group is a character-driven, darkly humorous novel about what keeps people in dwindling towns. 26-year-old Ojibwe man Marion feels tethered to his hometown of Geshig, a tiny [...]
Does October put you in the mood for something witchy? If so, you're in luck! Check out one of these teen novels and let it cast a spell over you. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (2011). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library. Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino [...]
Hispanic Heritage Month continues through October 15 and National Coming Out Day is next week on October 11, so there's no better time to pick up a book by a Latine LGBTQ+ author. Here are 15 books from our collection to choose from. Read with Pride! Teen: Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro (2018). [...]
Happy Bi Visibility Day! Today we raise bi awareness and challenge bisexual and biromantic erasure. If you want to know more about what being bi means, check out the Bisexual Resource Center. And then celebrate Bi Visibility Day by checking out one of these books! Nonfiction: Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality [...]
Dive into these books about Black mermaids! Picture Books The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman, illustrated by Geneva Bowers Oona by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Raissa Figueroa Oona and the Shark by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Raissa Figueroa Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. [...]
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Also available on e-book via the Indiana Digital Library. If you're looking for out-of-the-box science fiction with excellent worldbuilding and characters you can't help but love, pick up An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Aster is a scientist living on the starship Matilda, a generation ship organized much [...]
We are thrilled about our brand new partnership with the Indiana University Southeast Library! Now, you can request holds be delivered to the IUSE Library, return books at the book drops on the IUSE campus, and browse a small collection of hot, popular Floyd County Library titles at IUSE! How do I place a hold [...]
I have loved seeing everyone's kids in their back-to-school photos these past couple of weeks. You know those cute photos with a little sign that tells the child's age, grade, and what they want to be when they grow up? I've been struck by how many kids I know aspire to be vets or zookeepers [...]