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Asia/Pacific American Heritage Month Teen Reads
May 13, 2021
Amanda, library teens specialist, has put together a list of Asia/Pacific American Heritage Month teen reads.The following recommendations are all on display on the second floor Teenspace and compiled in Beanstack as a recommended reading list. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim YA CHI Anna Chiu has her hands full. […]
Recommended Titles
May 6, 2021
Recommended Titles Compiled by Crystal, Reference Supervisor How Much of These Hills is Gold / C Pam Zhang (F ZHA) Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the […]
Recommended Titles
May 6, 2021
Recommended Titles Compiled by Crystal Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed / Lori Gottlieb (B Gottlieb) With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the […]
May Dial-a-Stories are Live!
May 4, 2021
May Dial-a-Stories are Live! Call 304-826-BOOK (2665). If you haven’t heard, we now have an always available phone number where you can listen to stories, jokes, and poems. No internet required — just a phone. What you’ll hear is recorded by staff and wonderful community members. Our menu of choices is varied so we’ve written […]
Women’s History Month Recommended Reads
March 11, 2021
Reference Supervisor at the Downtown Branch, Crystal, put together a Women’s History Month recommended reads list. All the books mentioned can be found on display on the 2nd floor! Recommended Reads: https://www.mympls.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CrystalRecommendedReads.pdf