by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian If you plan to board a plane anytime in the near future, walk away from this and the other books by T.J. Newman. But if you want a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, then you can’t do much...
by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 6, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Ask anyone in the library’s Third Tuesday Book Discussion group and they’ll tell you that I love to read books set during World War II. Which means I’ve chosen quite a few titles that I believed they would...
by AnnDee Peterson | Aug 30, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian The quilt in the photo was made by my maternal great-great grandmother. I don’t know its exact provenance but have been told the pattern is Grandmother’s Flower Garden. You can’t see the tiny, precise stitches...
by AnnDee Peterson | Aug 23, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Have you ever had someone recommend a book so you pick it up but it doesn’t do a darn thing for you? That happened to me last week so I put it down and grabbed one that another person said I should read—and...
by AnnDee Peterson | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian I often peruse the shelves of New Books on a Friday afternoon to look for a back-up book should I need one over the weekend. Because it’s possible I won’t like the book(s) that I already have at home, or I...
by AnnDee Peterson | Aug 9, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian After a brief hiatus, adult programming at the Library returns with two crowd favorites next week. On Monday, we are re-opening Chez Libby, PPL’s premier book bistro, for another Book Tasting where readers are...
