If you haven't read books by Diana Wynne Jones, you are in for a treat. Many have seen the animated movie Howl's Moving Castle by animator Hayao Miyazaki and are unaware of the book by...
Now that the Summer Olympics are over you can see the distribution of medals around the world. The Wallstreet Journal has an interactive map showing where all that gold, silver and bronze will...
I think of libraries as people places – our buildings are lively with the hum of staff going about their jobs, of children discovering possibilities, of adults learning and visiting and...
Alguien le preguntó al Dalai Lama que es lo que más le sorprende sobre la humanidad. Su respuesta fué bien sencilla:El hombre...porque sacrifica su salud con el fin de hacer dinero. Después...
Some more interest-grabbing first lines from “Lucky Day” books:“The dying actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly—in a boat that motored into the...
What is a LAPPAR you say? Well a LAPPAR is a Librarian Against Pawnee Parks and Recreation. Parks and Recreation is a reality show on NBC with Leslie Knope as the focus. On the...
A novel about teenage angst, a nonfiction peek into a secret, seamy world, and a thriller with a domestic angle Hand Me Down by Melanie Thorne
This novel of adolescent...
This novel of adolescent...
I recently had the good fortune to take a tour of the construction site of the new San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge.We took a boat out to Yerba Buena Island. The brown structure is a temporary...
Warm weather in July and August as the Dog Star Sirius shines above us. Sirius is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, the Large Dog. What better time to enjoy star...
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958 film Vertigo, a psychological thriller shot in San Francisco, has edged out Orson Welles’s 1941 Citizen Kane as the best movie of...
