Summer is just around the corner, and a lot of you will be getting outside! If you're looking for tips and information about the natural world around us, look no further! The Curious Nature Guide (print) (ebook on Hoopla) With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie invites [...]
Did you know that many of your favorite Christmas songs were written by Jewish people? What about that Jewish communities are the most consistently targeted for religious bias-based violence in the US? These facts have very different impacts on our society, but they're both little-known facts about an important religious minority in our midst. The [...]
Like many of us, I'm on a journey to accept myself while becoming the best version of that person. For a lot of us, myself included, this means coming to terms with my body and the ways it does and does not fit into what society says a body should look like, and the ways [...]
Passover began April 15 and runs through April 23 this year! We wish all celebrants a safe and happy holiday.
You should consider coming to see Kentucky Shakespeare's live two-actor performance of Much Ado About Nothing. This play is one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies! The quick-witted Beatrice and Benedick (secretly in love) are engaged in a war of words while Hero and Claudio (not-so-secretly in love) plan to marry. Will false rumors and mistaken identity [...]
You're not the only one. The library can help. Print Books for Adults: In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine (2016) Ukraine had a revolution in 2014, and Russia annexed a politically important territory shortly thereafter. The region, which had been affected by war previously, once again erupted into turmoil. Through firsthand accounts of people across Ukraine, [...]
Today is the last day of Black History Month, and tomorrow is the first day of Women's History Month. There's a big overlap between the communities we lift up at these times-- Black women! Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" to describe the way identities stack-- Black women are Black and they are also [...]
Upper elementary students and tweens are invited to join us once a month for our Newbery Club! The Newbery Award is one of the most prestigious awards given for children's literature each year. Our children's librarians love reading and discussing books, and in this program we will discuss criteria of the Newbery Award (characters, plot, [...]
Celebration of the Lunar New Year is Tuesday! We are entering Year of the Tiger, so to celebrate, here are some books for adults containing magical stories of tigers. Bestiary by K-Ming Chang: One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. She was called Hu Gu [...]
If you like to read the book before you watch the movie or tv show, consider this your heads-up for the awesome adaptations coming at us this year. In February, Netflix is releasing their much-delayed movie version of Death on the Nile, available from the library as a book, ebook from OverDrive, ebook on Hoopla, and [...]
