Booklist – April 2024 National Library Week is April 7-13! The United States has observed National Library Week the second week of April since 1958 to promote library use, motivate …
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Booklist – March 2024 There is nothing quite so unique as the relationship between siblings. Most of us have felt the joy and subsequent pain of growing up with brothers …
Love Is in the Air
Booklist – February 2024 It’s February, and love is in the air! Metaphorically and literally. The sky has always been a place filled with adventure, the unknown, and a sense …
A Fresh Start
Booklist – January 2024 It’s the start of a new year! For many this means setting goals, cleaning out the house, and forming new habits. For others it just means …
Land of the Midnight Sun
Booklist – December 2023 Alaska always captures our imagination. Is it the sheer size of the state? Is it Arctic cold and permafrost? Is it the aurora borealis? Is it …
Winter Reading 2024 – Get Cozy!
The 2024 theme is Get Cozy! As the days get shorter and the weather gets colder, our instinct to head indoors and stay there. A blustery winter day is the …
The Best Book Club Ever
Booklist – November 2023 Book clubs have a history that goes back almost 400 years when a group of women organized themselves to discuss sermons and texts aboard a ship …
Cascade Volcanoes
Book List – June 2023 One of our Reader’s Advisors has a goal of traveling the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a road trip from Mount Baker near the Canadian border to …
Mental Health Awareness Month
Book List – May 2023 Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental illness. During May, we can bring our voices together to advocate for …
The Rest of the Story
Booklist – April 2023 Beginning during World War II and continuing until 1976, Paul Harvey produced a radio program called The Rest of the Story. It consisted of stories presented …
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Book List – Women’s History Month March 2023 In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote, “Well behaved women seldom make history.” Today these words appear on …
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