I’ve recently written about my years-long love affair with the novels of Sarah Waters—I’m still slowly, but surely, working my way through each of her books. My Sarah Waters reading project made me think of other authors who have impressed me so much with their words that I feel compelled to read everything they have…
Vanessa
Youth Services Outreach Assistant 785-843-3833 x 117 vreynaga@lplks.org ¡Hablo español! Native Californian with a penchant for kind hearts, Elena Ferrante currently, poetry, and rap and hip hop…
A CD Anyone Can Listen To: Free to Be You and Me
Free To Be You and Me, the 1972 brain-child of Marlo Thomas, is one of the hippy-dippiest things ever. Just look at that album cover. Starring Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Alan Alda, Gilbert Gottfried, Rosey Grier, Carol Channing and Shirley Jones (among others), it features songs, poems and stories celebrating body positivity, kindness, gender neutrality…
MARVELous Women
I grew up watching superheroes in their 90s cartoon incarnations, so I’ve been familiar with a handful of female supers for as long as I can remember. That said, the overwhelming majority of superheroes in my orbit were men. Fortunately, the costumed do-gooder lineup has gotten much more diverse with every passing decade. I mean…
032: Crying or Peeing Your Pants
What do the genres Romance and Horror have in common? They bring the feels. Learn more about Horror as a genre, and get LOTS of recommendations based on different appeal factors and interests. Huge thanks to Becky Spratford and Kelly Peter for being our spoopy gurus! Books discussed in this episode, plus a few more…
An Eloquent And Provocative New Barbara Kingsolver Novel
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Unsheltered is more than the title of Barbara Kingsolver's new book; it is the thoughtful overarching metaphor whic
It’s Always Almost the Holidays
Lots of people grumble about how the holidays seem to encroach ever earlier into the preceding season. We hardly have time to stow our patriotic bunting before that one aisle in the grocery store starts insisting it’s time for bats and jack o'lanterns—which are then quickly muscled off the shelf by Christmas baubles. Unfortunately…
Little Orphan Angie
Like any good child of the eighties, my first foray into relating to a fellow orphan happened with that precocious, red-haired girl pining for the family she’d never known on the window sill of the Hudson Street Orphanage. Until last month, it took two fictional accounts of orphans to make me realize that I’d…
We Need Diverse Stories!!
Looking for great stories with diverse characters that look and live like you? Short on time but needing inspiration? Discover the power of the ANTHOLOGY!! Each anthology contains lots of stories, stories are packed with characters who REPRESENT, VOICES that often go unheard, and IDEAS about how to change all of that for the future…
Ignite & Nurture Your Creativity!
Almost everyone has a creative spirit—whether they believe it or not. Likewise, almost everyone goes through times of feeling disconnected from that creative spirit. Recently, a lovely woman came to the library looking for books to help her get started painting again. She was under some stress, applying for a new job, and she really…
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