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Summer Read & Learn 2020
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…
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We Recommend — Getting Away from It All
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…
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Librarian’s Choice – Let Sleeping Giants Lie
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…
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Pandemic Fiction. Not Satiated Yet?
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…
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Book Clubs and Binge Readers Rejoice!
From now until Tuesday, June 30, an unlimited number of MCPL library cardholders can enjoy immediate access to a special selection of ebooks through our Overdrive ebook collection. Since there is no limit on the number of readers who can access these select titles, it’s a perfect opportunity for book clubs of any size to…
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Librarian’s Choice – A Curious Beginning to a Curious Series
There is something to the phrase “never judge a book by its cover.” When I first saw the original cover of A Curious Beginning, my curiosity was piqued. The cover, pink and gilded, showed a woman in Victorian-ish dress running from something with her back to the reader. I wanted to read it. It took…
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We Recommend — Comical Novels
Bring a little laughter into your world with these humorous novels. Honestly, We Meant Well Sue Ellen Wright has what she thinks is a close to perfect life. A terrific career as a classics professor, a loving husband, and a son who is just about to leave the nest. But then disaster strikes. She learns…
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For Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing caught the literary world by storm. Readers loved Owens’ appreciation of the natural world and Kya’s heartbreaking story. Throw in a possible murder and the story is complete. Kya Clark was born and raised (or raised herself) in the marshlands of North Carolina, where, one by one, her…
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Storytime with a Librarian: Nuts & Bolts
In this world of virtual learning, there are so many online programs to engage young children that it is often hard to decide where to go and what to choose. This is especially true when it comes to storytime. There are a lot of wonderful resources out there being billed as a storytime right now. So what makes storytime with a librarian so special? Storytime with a librarian…
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Anatomy of a Librarian’s Library
You might be wondering if librarians miss the library when they are home. Who wouldn’t want to spend all their time surrounded by books? While I love going to Marilyn Praisner Library every day, the truth is that librarians are never far from a library because we have our own at home! Today we’re looking…
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BookFlix the Reading Solution You Didn’t Know You Needed!
How many of you are guilty of ignoring nonfiction picture books and focusing more on the fun, imaginative, fiction books out there? I know I’m guilty of this all the time. That’s why I was really excited to learn about MCPL’s resource called BookFlix. Bookflix is an online early literacy resource that pairs animated versions of popular picture books with related nonfiction…
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Librarian’s Choice – The Uninvited Guest
A review of Cold Storage by David Koepp Review by Elizabeth Lang, Public Services Skylab crashes to earth in 1979, bringing with it a very aggressive hitchhiker- mutated Cordyceps Novus- which finds Earth to be a rich, nutritious planet, teeming with beings that support its explosive growth. Fortunately for humanity, it lands in a highly…