by AnnDee Peterson | Oct 20, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian When lecturing to college students, history professor Judith Shaw advised including murder and sex. That was the surefire way of getting—and keeping—the students’ attention. The same holds true for catching...
by AnnDee Peterson | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian 1619 Project—1984—Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian—Animal Farm—Awakening—Beloved—Bless Me, Ultima—Bluest Eye—Brave New World—Call of the Wild—Catcher in the Rye—Clockwork Orange—Color Purple—Curious...
by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 29, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian It will come as no surprise that I didn’t play team sports in school. However, I was in Band, which I would argue takes more coordination as we played instruments while performing maneuvers on the football...
by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 22, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian I love a good mystery. It can be a nice little cozy or historical or thriller or legal or rather bloody in nature—if there’s a good plot and I can’t quite figure out whodunit, then I know it’s a good read. It...
by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 15, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
Before I began attending school, my mother would take me with her to coffee mornings, gatherings held in the homes of her fellow church circle members (or so I assume). I remember watching the nicely dressed women balancing small glass trays with matching cups on...
by AnnDee Peterson | Sep 8, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
August wasn’t good for much other than reading and I got through several so-so books followed by two pretty good reads. Then came the best of the month—Richard Osman’s “Thursday Murder Club.” People have been telling me for years—well, three—that I should read it and...
