Whether you're doing the fooling or getting fooled, April 1st is a day to pay close attention to!  You can find lots of books about April Fools' Day at your local library.  Here...
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez Day, an official state holiday in California, is intended to promote community service in honor of the Latino labor leader’s life and work.  Cesar Chavez, a first generation...
This installment: an intimate, quotidian journal by a favorite writer; a delightfully weird New Mexican novel, and a true life story of hard times and redemption.     Winter...
Feeling creative?  Enter the Civic Center Library Peeps Diorama Contest!Make a diorama depicting your favorite book or story using marshmallow Peeps.Contest rules and entry forms are...
Test Your Mystery IQ: answersHere are the answers to last week’s mystery quiz:  match the authors to their series characters. Louise Penny       ...
This installment—three novels: mysticism and cyber-ingenuity in the Middle East; Martha’s Vineyard in the ‘40s with nasty domestic drama, and the Bad Boy of British Books does it...
Mystery readers:  can you match the popular mystery writers below with their fictional detective characters?   Type your answers in the comments box.     (Answers...
La berenjena es mi vegetal (o fruta para los botánicos) preferido. El otro es la calabaza (la misma vaina de explicación).Por lo tanto siempre estoy a la que se cae probando recetas nuevas. Porque...
As a  new pope is chosen,  the world’s attention is focused on Rome.  While waiting for the white smoke, you could pass the time reading a novel about intrigue in the Vatican....
This installment three novels: British literary machinations; an artist arises from a Japanese internment camp, and a mixed martial arts hopeful meets more than his match.    Alys...