Adult

Say what you want about me, but I like learning about dead people. I loved Mary Roach's book “Stiff” and the HBO television series “Six Feet Under” is my favorite show of all time. I’m fascinated by what happens to us when we die, as morbid as a topic as that might be. That being… Read More

Since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal -- to see more, see farther and see deeper. For 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits the earth, has been one of the greatest advances toward achieving that goal and is considered one of NASA’s most successful science missions. Whether you’re an amateur… Read More

Described as “The Social Network meets The Wolf of Wall Street”,  Michelle Miller’s debut novel The Underwriting, sounded like the perfect summer read. I really have no understanding of how things work on Wall Street, so I thought I might gain a little insight while enjoying a juicy read. I still understand little of Wall… Read More

"Shortly after my father died, his brother, my uncle, gave me a photograph and for the first time in my life I learned that I had family that had perished during the Holocaust.  ...the man in the center, who was obviously the father, looked just like my father, my grandfather, and to be truthful, I… Read More

Ever since the explosion of Gone Girl in 2012, people have been searching for the next big thing- the next wild ride that will suck them in and keep them on their toes. Gillian Flynn introduced an unreliable narrator and a story that kept you guessing until the end. Each page was exciting and nerve… Read More

Are you—or your spouse or your teen or your parents—among the financially illiterate? There’s no time like the present to become better educated about your finances than by attending one of the upcoming financial programs at the Library during Money Smart Week--a public awareness campaign created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to help consumers… Read More

Bob Dylan The Complete Basement Tapes Music Discussion Wednesday, April 8, 7:00pm. Last year "The Complete Basement Tapes" was picked by many critics as the most important and best reissue of 2014. In the program, we'll listen to and talk about this landmark recording. Although it was recorded in the summer of 1967 many of… Read More

If you are turned off by The Martian because you have heard it has science-fiction tendencies, I urge you to reconsider. The Martian by Andy Weir is an amazing novel; I could not put it down and already have plans to re-read it. The story is pretty simple: Mark Watney, astronaut, botanist, and mechanical engineer,… Read More

I loved the Hunger Games and Divergent movies and books, but there’s so much more to the dystopian genre! Fellow librarian Sarah Burkard has already covered some of the great dystopian fiction books that we have in the collection, but there are some awesome movies that also fall under the auspices of dystopia! The next… Read More

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage is the latest novel by Haruki Murakami. In Japan, when his books are released, fans wait for hours in line to get a copy. I had not read any of Murakami’s novels before, and as soon as I started to read it I understood why he is… Read More