by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Kansas literature often gets a bad rap. No doubt people who call us “flyover country” don’t even think there is such a thing. About the only book related to our state that comes to mind for most people is “The...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 19, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian It’s been a bit of a rough week for some of us. Whether it be dead car batteries, frozen pipes, conked out furnaces, or malfunctioning garage doors—the sub-zero temperatures have not been kind to many folks....
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian I will be forever grateful to the patron who, back in 2015, told me I needed to read Daniel James Brown’s “The Boys in the Boat” (thank you Suzy!). I admit to being very skeptical—why would someone living in...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 5, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian It’s Day 5 and I’ve finished my first book of the year. I hope it doesn’t portend the rest of my reading for 2024. Which is my way of saying that although I was excited to check out the book, it did not live...
by AnnDee Peterson | Dec 29, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Every publication and/or news outlet is putting out their “Best of” and “Top Ten” lists, whether they be movies, albums, TV shows, podcasts, and—the only one I care about—books. Some years it’s very difficult...
