Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn’t Built for Us
Running While Black explores many of the issues and problems Black runners face while running. The sport markets itself as being “for everyone,” yet, for many Black people, it’s filled with anxiety and fear. Désir opens the book by describing…
2023 Winter Reading Challenges (January 9–February 19)
Winter is the absolute best time to read! Nothing beats cozying up under a nice warm blanket with some delicious coffee (or hot chocolate) and an amazing book. The only thing that could possibly make it better is to get…
November 2022 Teen Reads: Must Read Fantasy, Royal Reads and More
Looking for something to read? Our teen services staff are here to help. Browse our handpicked collection of books perfect for teens. Visit Teen Reads to view our booklists curated just for you. You can also stop by the teen area…
Jay’s Book Talk: Don Quijote por Miguel de Cervantes
Hola! Yo tengo otra charla literaria de un libro viejo. ¡Casi perdí sacarla antes del final del Mes de la Herencia Hispana! De niño, este libro era muy importante para mi y me divertí mucho hablando de el.
Stepping into the Hellboy Universe
Mike Mignola wrote the first Hellboy comic in 1994, starting the chain of what would branch off into the large imagined world of Hellboy. With expanding universes, there always comes a point where there is just a huge amount of…
October 2022 Teen Reads: Spooky Books, Fall Reads and More!
Looking for something to read? Our teen services staff are here to help. Browse our handpicked collection of books perfect for teens. Visit Teen Reads to view our booklists curated just for you. You can also stop by the teen area…
Eyan’s Genre of the Month: Banned Books (And How They Changed My Life)
Perhaps I am staring off on a melodramatic note, but if you’ve read any of my blogs or spoken with me for more than 4 seconds, you know I tend to lean hard into hyperbole and dramatics. And again, I’m…
September 2022 Teen Reads: Dystopian Fiction, New YA Authors, Hispanic Heritage Reads and More
Looking for something to read? Our teen services staff are here to help. Browse our handpicked collection of books perfect for teens. Visit Teen Reads to view our booklists curated just for you. You can also stop by the teen area…
Book Review: “The Way to the Stars” by Una McCormack
Hopefully, without sounding as though I’m disparaging Extended Universe or media tie-in novels, The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack is, technically, a Star Trek novel. However, you can ignore that entirely for the purposes of this book and this…
Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Summary: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s, and her all-male team at Hastings…