Famous houses abound in literature. Did your favorite literary house make the list? 221B Baker Street from A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887). Is this the world's most famous address which belongs to the world's most famous sleuth? Manderey from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938). One of the most famous…
Po-tay-toe, Po-tah-toe – Potato Picture Books!
You would be surprised at how many picture books there are about potatoes. I know I was. Check these out, some silly, some historical, all fun! Picture Books About Potatoes List created by red_buzzard_53 You have no idea how many picture books we have about potatoes! Potato Pants! Rot Pigs Love Potatoes I'm Bored I'm…
They: 2019’s Word of the Year!
After over 600 years of being used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, last year they became Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. In September 2019 Merriam-Webster officially added the nonbinary pronoun sense of they to the dictionary. Merriam-Webster includes a definition of they as "used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary." Want to learn more? Read Merriam-Webster's deep…
The Book Was Better. Don’t @ Me.
As a librarian, I am not allowed to have any other opinion. The book is always better than the movie and the movie will inevitably be shorter, shallower and have ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT ideas about your favorite characters. I’m looking at you, Peter Jackson. Luckily, Frisco Public Library has the goods. Here are a few books…
A Self-Care Guide for the Holidays
We've reached the most wonderful time of the year! While the end of the year brings in all my favorite holidays, there’s no denying that the stress of our everyday lives can peak during this season. One of the most important things that we often neglect is self-care. While candles, pumpkin pie, and lattes can…
9 Dark Fantasy Read-Alikes for Fans of the Witcher Series
What do you do when you’ve read the Witcher Saga, played the video game and are waiting to binge the upcoming Witcher series on Netflix? You find another fantasy world to explore! You’re likely already familiar with some of the big names in epic fantasy—J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson. (If you’re not, check them out!) So, we’re recommending modern sword…
Ukuleles are hot!
The ukulele (Hawaiian for “jumping flea”) is a small, plucked string instrument largely associated with Hawaii, but that is not where the instrument was born. Instead, it was brought over from the island of Madeira off the coast of northwest Africa in the 1870’s by Portuguese immigrants. Three Madeiran cabinetmakers arrived in Hawaii in 1879…
Why doesn’t the library have unlimited copies of digital books?
If you love reading eBooks and listening to digital audiobooks, this is something you have probably wondered about. Seems like it should be easy, right? Buy 100 digital copies of a book and let everyone borrow them! But it's not that easy. It can be a hard issue to explain for libraries. Publishers of econtent…
The Native Occupation of Alcatraz—Looking Back 50 Years Later
As we approach Thanksgiving, it behooves us to remember the 50th anniversary of the nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz by the Native American group, Indians of All Tribes (IOAT). Ten thousand years before Americans of European descent spread across what is now known as the United States of America, Alcatraz had been continuously used as a…
Aquarius: The Bookstrologist Recommends
Astrology is having a moment. Humans have been consulting the stars for thousands of years, but recently interest in the zodiac has grown, and suddenly it seems that people are discussing natal charts on park benches and at bars. Some recent books by popular astrologists have piqued interest as well. If you're a fan, we…
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