Erica’s Pick of the Week: The Liar’s Dictionary
Erica’s pick of the week is full of fake words and real heart.
Mars Mania
In the wake of Perseverance’s recent touchdown on Mars, we offer some recent books about space travel and the red planet to feed your interest and increase what you know. Click on the title of each book to find it in our online catalog. Happy exploring! Colonizing and living on Mars:How We’ll Live on Mars…
Andrea’s Pick of the Week: The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Ruth Tuttle has achieved what looks like success: an engineering degree from Yale, a good job at a Chicago consumer-goods company, and an equally successful, charming husband. She has come a long way from her modest roots in Ganton, Indiana. What people don’t see, though, is that she left a child behind in Indiana when…
Julia’s Pick of the Week: Guantanamo Voices
“… This is perhaps the most insidious aspect of Guantanamo Bay’s legacy— just how easy it is to forget. Even though the camps still house prisoners, the entire place feels like something from a prior epoch, a piece of ancient history, buried now beneath the daily scandals and calamities that have come to define the…
Happy Birthday, Abe!
February 12 is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Born in 1809, he’s lookin’ pretty good for 212! If you’re a fan or would like to learn more about Lincoln, here are a few recent additions to our shelves that you might enjoy. Click on the title of each book to find it in our online catalog. For…
