Lawrence Public Library staff's top reads discovered in the year 2021!
LPL’s Top Media of 2021
Lawrence Public Library Staff reveal their top picks for media discoveries in 2021
The Importance of Storytelling in Every Form
Hear me out, I like reading, but I love a good story, and good stories don’t always have to be read.
A Bookishly Gothic Reckoning
"Five days after Flora died, she was still coming to the bookstore. I’m still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books." --- Louise Erdrich, The Sentence --- I cannot remember when I last read a book which inspired me to uninhibitedly laugh out loud and cry heartfelt tears! I’m deeply moved by…
The Wizard and St. Nick (Offerman)
All together now: How often at night when the heavens are bright, With the light from the glittering stars, Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed, If their glory exceeds that of ours. Wait, what? That's a seldom-sung stanza of our State Song, penned, as you surely know, by Brewster Higley in…
Quaranzines!
Quarantine has meant various things throughout the pandemic. In Lawrence, many of us were asked to stay in our homes as much as possible for several weeks in the spring of 2020; that was a kind of quarantine. After an exposure to the coronavirus, health officials still recommend that you remain isolated from others until…
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