We librarians all have patrons who want specific materials removed from the shelves. It’s difficult to predict which items will inflame sensibilities or which strike readers as incendiary. Knowing your community is part of the battle,... Read More

When you picture climate change, you might picture the rainforests disappearing. Maybe you see a lone polar bear, standing on a drifting slab of ice. Whatever the case is, what you’re picturing is probably not good. Which is why it’s... Read More

The word “teenager” came into use in the 1920s. Before then, you were either a child or an adult; no term to describe the time in your life when everything was changing. Now, we recognize the stage as its own category. Teenagers and... Read More

Our Spring 2016 Climate Change Spotlight took an unconventional approach to the topic, examining not only how it plays out in entertainment media, but how our worldviews impact our interaction with the reality of damaged ecosystems.... Read More

Grit is the common factor in these five memoirs, whether it’s an African American scholar from the South and a Palestinian woman who face up to their prejudices, a Jersey girl cancer couldn’t kill, a myth-busting historian, or a gentle... Read More

These carefully curated self-help selections may seem like an eclectic group of titles, but they have one overarching theme in common: Mastery. “Mastery” is a word not to be taken lightly, because it suggests the highest level of... Read More

The young folks in these five novels are up against some pretty steep challenges: pestilence, war, vampires, Nazis, eugenics, secret societies, deadly foes. Throw in a dash of dyslexia, a pinch of anorexia, and a helping of unhealthy... Read More