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The world feels incredibly complicated lately. Maybe it's the constant connection, the endless doomscrolling through disquieting headlines.

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” 
― Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

History is a funny thing. We are taught to trust the narratives we learn in school. We are taught that the words in our history books contain the whole story. But narratives are controlled by the hands that compose them.

Women have been making movies since 1896. Do you know how many women have won the Academy Award for Best Director? The answer is three.

When you come to the library, you know that you can always depend on our staff to provide excellent book and movie suggestions.

Banned Books Week has been uniting book lovers around the country since 1982 in a weeklong event celebrating our freedom to read.

Ah, self-help. Walk through any bookstore or library and chances are you’ve seen a self-help book–maybe one even caused you to pause for a moment. And who can blame you? The allure of self-help is hard to deny. 

Motion pictures began to emerge in Paris in the final years of the 19th century. This transformative medium revolutionized storytelling.

Defining historical fiction seems like it should be straightforward–a novel that takes place in the past–but different people interpret it surprisingly differently.

“I volunteer as tribute!”
--Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

Stories about uncovering hidden crimes (with or without supernatural assistance) go back a long way in many cultures. A Sophocles play from about 425 BCE–Oedipus the King–was an early example.

When Bong Joon Ho, the great South Korean director of Parasite, accepted the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2020, he laughingly told the audience, “

Autumn is often called the spooky season, and people naturally gravitate toward reading horror novels during the fall. I contend that horror should be read year round and my coworker Liz agrees!

We sing (or maybe just talk) the praises of audiobooks and their benefits.

Who would have known that my love of dogs would take me on a journey to a whole new, captivating world?