I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the Lincoln Award and the Lincoln Nominee list for 2023 and answer some FAQs. What is Read 4 Pizza? Log the Lincoln Award nominees you read on Beanstack and get free pizza and other fun prizes! Open to high school students....
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Black Future Month
Check out some of these books celebrating Black Joy for Black History Month. A little bit of everything! Featuring love, magic, space, and more.For a full list, click here to see the list in our catalog.
My Favorite Reads of 2021
The Camelot Rising trilogy by Kiersten White Is this cheating? I don’t care. I LOVE Kiersten White, but especially when writing historical fantasy about kick-butt girls. I’m sure some people think Arthuriana can be boring, like how many times...
The Wheel of Time
Surprising no one, I am HOOKED on The Wheel of Time series on Amazon Prime. If you're also a lover of fantasy adventure, it will definitely be your jam. I also think many of these books would be your jam, check them out while you wait for more episodes to drop. Full...
Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month
We're celebrating Latinx Heritage Month a little early this year. Stop by the Library to check out our display featured on the Library's new TikTok page, or place holds on these select few! You had me at hola by Alexis Daria Rendered the subject of tabloid gossip by...
Highlights of my TBR
My to-be-read list on The Storygraph has 490 books on it, which actually is not that bad! There used to be more, but I recently went through and deleted some that I was no longer interested in or knew I wouldn’t get to. Let’s be honest though, I’m never getting to all...
Bookish Conversations: Izabel and Ang talk Sarah J Maas
From time to time, when a bookish topic is provoking lots of conversation amongst us, we’ll be posting some of that discussion as a blog post. In this edition of Bookish Conversations, Readers’ Advisors Ang and Izabel discuss author Sarah J Maas... Ang: Okay,...
Authors We Love: Leigh Bardugo
I love Leigh Bardugo and frequently say that I wish she was my best friend. Her Stevie Nicks inspired wardrobe and affinity for black lipstick and big crystals is a vibe I aspire to. Plus she’s created some amazing worlds and characters that I constantly find myself...
My Favorite Reads of 2020
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown The worldbuilding in this story was so many things – interesting, complex, lush, and vibrant. Despite being another YA fantasy based around a competition, the stakes felt So Much Higher, and the...
Readers’ Advisor Profile: Izabel
I have a couple vivid memories from my childhood that are related to reading. When I was about 8 years old, I scared my mom by choosing a Goosebumps book to take home. I think it was the skeleton on the cover that spooked her. A couple years later, I had a nightmare...