The Bookmobile will not be at any stops this week for scheduled maintenance. We will resume a normal schedule Tuesday, May 28.

Books, Movies & Music

The latest books, movies and music to hit library shelves, with some classics and great obscure stuff thrown in. Read staff and customer reviews here. Find out how you can contribute to this blog, and tap into our personalized reading request service.

Recent Books, Movies & Music Blog Posts

Book Arts for Schools handouts

Jeanne Drewes gave her program last Tuesday, and asked us to share her list of websites and handouts. Below are some of the sites she used to gather instructions for different bookbinding styles. Step-by-step instructions go with many of them. Other sites are good resources.  Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Celebrates Preservation Week April [...]

Still space for “Family Treasures” workshop

Jeanne Drewes, the Chief of the Binding and Collections Care Division and Program Manager of the Mass Deacidification Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress will lead a workshop on caring for your collection Thursday, April 28 from 6 – 8:30 pm in the Marvin Auditorium, 101B. Along with other archivists and preservationists, Jeanne will show you what [...]

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Inspirational Pick of the Month: Adam by Ted Dekker

Welcome to the world of Ted Dekker, who exposes evil in all it’s gruesomeness, but also shows the power of God’s light that overcomes evil’s darkness. In Adam that evil comes in the form of “Eve”–a serial killer hunted by Daniel Clark.

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Murder in Instruments of Darkness

The tranquility of a country manor is shattered when a man is found murdered. It’s 1780 and Harriet Westerman, the mistress of the estate, decides to consult the reclusive Gabriel Crowther…

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Guest blogger L. Rob Hubbard reviews Richard Matheson

The name Richard Matheson may not be readily familiar to most people, but his work certainly is. For the last fifty years or so, his work has entered bedrock status in popular culture, especially current science-fiction/fantasy/horror.

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Great Books for Children

Click here for reading recommendations from your library. Amazing stories await you. Check out one of these books – most appropriate for children ages birth to 10 years.
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