Summer Reading Club 2014 is officially over, and all prize winners have been drawn and notified. Meet Stephanie, the winner of our grand prize, a year long membership to the Rec Center for her and her family! Stephanie read A LOT of books this summer...
Join us on Facebook for our first-ever online book club! Each month we'll vote on a book to read and discuss within our Facebook Group. We know it isn't always possible to get together in-person to discuss books...
Join us on Tuesday, September 2 from 6:30-7:30 at Black Swan Brew Pub for Books on Tap! This book club will meet once monthly to celebrate and discuss the finer things...
Join us on Thursday, August 7 from 6:30-7:30 at Black Swan Brew Pub for our first ever, Books on Tap! This book club will meet once monthly to celebrate and discuss the finer things...
Support the library through your Barnes & Noble purchase at Frozen Friday: Cool Off With Olaf on August 1st! Joanna, Kate, and Laura B from the library will be at the Metropolis Barnes & Noble from 11:00am - 8:00pm on Friday, August 1st. Disney's Frozen is the...
Thanks to Buzzfeed, I now have my list of go-to books for 2014! It might not be the most noble literary endeavor, but, I *love* reading books that are being made into movies (or already have been). I enjoy seeing the changes and edits and actors...
Today is the 197th birthday of our fair State! Though Indiana's territorial representatives had applied for statehood back in 1812, a little war at the time - which resulted in the burning of Washington, D.C., a failed invasion of Canada, the writing of our National...
Books about Books are the tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich of the literary world - delicious, comforting, and always appropriate. Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The most recent addition to the list is Robin Sloan's 2012 debut novel about an eccentric bookstore owner...
Wondering what books your library staff personally recommend? Just take a look at the Staff Picks display near the audiobooks. Here's a sample of what's there now. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Home to Harmony by Phil Gulley Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein Baghdad Without...
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a fast paced action-adventure story set in a future dystopic America, complete with shanty-town-skyscrapers made from mobile homes and armored bus service between cities to guard against roving bands of highwaymen and thieves. Good stuff in and of...
