by AnnDee Peterson | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian As far as I’m concerned, the summer doldrums are upon us. It’s hot, it’s humid, and I’m leaning towards crankiness (I can hear some of you saying, “isn’t that her usual M.O.?”). A pick-me-up is certainly...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Anyone who’s attended a funeral dinner knows the routine—the family of the deceased gather around tables in the church hall, eating home-cooked casseroles and desserts made by the (mostly) women church members...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jun 28, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian After the fear and isolation of COVID, readers gravitated towards books that were heartwarming and without the angst that permeated the domestic thrillers that were all the rage in 2019. Now that we’re farther...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jun 21, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian The forecast for this next week—and probably most of the summer—looks like it’s going to be a scorcher and that means a lot of indoor reading time. Fortunately for me, there are a goodly number of books that...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jun 14, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian With a few subtle adjustments—change the cake to a cherry pie, the boy to two girls, lose the pipe but keep the dog—this Norman Rockwell image could have illustrated the Robb household fifty-some years ago. My...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jun 7, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Mindfulness is a word that has come to the forefront in recent years; it certainly wasn’t something I heard about until a couple of years ago. But as the world around us becomes more fraught and anxiety seems...
