Special thanks to Sami Colgate for contributing to this blog post! January is National Hot Tea Month, and we’ve teamed up with Sami Colgate from Ku Cha House of Tea (a Library Flash Your Card program participant) to create unique book and tea pairings to stimulate your next read. For each pairing, you’ll find a …
A library customer recently came into the Council Tree Library looking for book suggestions and said he was looking to read something positive about the United States or the direction the country is heading. The man ended up checking out two recommendations from our librarian: a July 2016 issue of Time magazine with the article …
Horror! Mystery! Romance! And….rockets? Sounds like a recipe for a Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s actually our latest installment of Read Like a Librarian! We’ve got a grab bag of genres to choose from for the reader who wants everything including some great reads for Halloween. Start a new book or two or three or four from …
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In the midst of our nation’s most recent social turmoil – following the shooting deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, and soon after the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers – you may find it difficult to discuss with children and young adults the images and information they’re seeing in the …
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