So many great authors and titles to choose from. Here are a few to get you started! Afterlife: A Novel Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: …
Whodunit? Find out in these recent mysteries! Blood Oath: A Novel Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the courtroom to do what she does best. As …
By Lisa Navidi, Davis Library Small town fiction has always appealed to me, maybe because I grew up in several small towns. I especially enjoy the characters and the way they interact with each other…or not. They say all politics is local. And whoever has lived in a small town knows that for sure. Experience …
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On this most unusual Independence Day, here are some books about an ever changing, increasingly diverse America. American Like Me In American Like Me, America Ferrera invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they …
Review by Elizabeth Lang, Public Services I recently read the Wired.com article “Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost” by Michael Bond. I learned that when we get disoriented, we panic, often leaving the area where anyone might expect to find us, and that we tend to do this even when we know …
Rachel Rappaport-Assistant Manager; Connie Morella Library Did you know that our country has a second Independence Day? On June 19, 1865, hundreds of thousands of enslaved African descendants became some of the last to be freed in the United States. Though the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863, much of the South was still under Confederate control. It was not until …
The Library Book by Susan Orlean—When Susan Orlean started to write about the Los Angeles Public Library fire in 1986, she didn’t realize how deep into library culture and history it would take her. If you too want to delve deeper into library culture and history, here are some other books about libraries, librarians and …
Someone once said, “Being apart teaches us how to grow together.” And this has definitely been the case of libraries and librarians everywhere. It’s been a long couple of months and we miss our patrons just as much as you all miss the library. But we hope, through virtual programming and access to digital resources, …
Looking for ebooks, movies, music, and other entertainment online? MCPL has a new service, Hoopla, that offers all this and more. And it’s free with your MCPL library card. Hoopla offers six different types of content: audiobooks, comics, ebooks, movies, music, and television series. All items in Hoopla are available immediately. There are no waiting …