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Sign up for Summer Reading!
Adult Summer starts on June 15th! Participate and you can win prizes just by reading books. The top two readers will win a prize pack from the library! Log at least one book and be entered into a raffle to win a record player and a $50 gift certificate to Welfare Records. Complete reading challenges […]
1st Floor Restroom Construction
Big news! Starting Monday April 2nd our 1st floor restrooms are being entirely redone! They will be closed to the public for the duration of construction, approximately 2 1/2 months. The 2nd floor restrooms in the auditorium foyer will be the main public restrooms. They are elevator accessible. Please be patient with extra noise, dust, […]
“Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self” by Manoush Zomorodi
Have you noticed that your productivity and creativity have gone down? Do you have problem staying focus on projects at home or at work? Do you find yourself constantly interrupting your reading, or other things, to check your email, messages, Facebook, and other social media? Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show […]
“Penguin the Magpie” by Cameron Bloom
I first picked up this book because the photograph on the cover intrigued me. When I opened the book, I found in it more amazing images of a magpie named Penguin. No surprise since Cameron Bloom is an Australian photographer. I left the book on the shelves, and went home. Then I wanted to know […]
“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer tells the story of a man of two minds, half-French half-Vietnamese, a communist double agent, divided between the American and Vietnamese cultures, between ideologies and, most important, between his two blood brothers from childhood: Man, a communist, and Bon, a patriot […]
