News & Updates

News & Updates

Children’s Book News: November 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell and illustrated by Frané LessacSuggested ages:  3-8 yearsTraci Sorell, born and raised in the Cherokee Nation, has created a lovely tribute to the […]

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Book News: November 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Without There is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Journalist and author Suki Kim was born in South Korea and immigrated to the […]

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Children’s Book News: October 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, translated by Emily Balistrieri, illustrations by Yuta Onodaby Suggested ages:  8-12 years Delivery services have become a significant necessity for many in our world […]

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Children’s Activities for Oct, Nov, Dec

January 6 @ 1:44 pm
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Book News: October 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting and China’s Secret Solution to its Dissident Problem by Ethan Gutmann “Organ harvesting: the surgical removal, often without anesthetics, of healthy organs without the consent […]

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Kanopy Video Streaming Trial

January 6 @ 1:44 pm
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Children’s Book News: September 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorell Suggested ages:  8-12 years Regina’s family, who belong to the Umpqua tribe, has always lived on the Grand Ronde Indian […]

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Children’s Book News: August 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Every year the American Library Association presents a Children’s Literature Legacy Award which honors “an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period […]

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Book News: September 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s by Joshua Yaffa Yaffa’s immersing book is a fascinating look at how  Russian citizens manage to live within their totalitarian  government […]

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Book News: July 2020

January 6 @ 1:44 pm

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel “It is the duty of those who have survived to bear witness […]

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