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 …
June means it’s time for Montgomery County Public Libraries’ annual Summer Read & Learn program. We’re excited to announce that this year the entire program can be done online, which means you can join in even if you can’t visit an MCPL branch in person. And it’s all free! This summer’s theme is Imagine Your …
From Tokyo to the Scottish countryside and locales in between, experience a slice of life beyond your neighborhood in these novels with a strong sense of place. Bookshop on the Corner Until yesterday, Nina Redmond was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a …
If a giant robot hand was found near your backyard, how would your national government react? Would it tell the world, seek other nations’ help to find the other parts, and use what they learned for the betterment of all? Nah, mine neither. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel begins when a girl falls into a …
by Lisa Navidi, Davis Library What is everyone talking about, thinking about, and watching? The pandemic of course. So why not read about it as well? Some of these novels are much worse, I hope, than what we are experiencing and others present the virus as just the backdrop of their story. Either way, here …