Tis the Season to Decorate!
Feels Like Home by Marian Parsons The truth is, every home should feel like a custom home and not have to break the bank. In Feels Like Home, DIY makeover queen Marian Parsons (a.k.a. Miss Mustard Seed) teaches you what…
Love Greek Mythology? Try These Titles!
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward…
Big Library Read Starts Nov. 2nd!
Whitman County Library Joins Worldwide Digital Book Club with Newbery Award-Winning Young Adult Novel Booklovers can read indigenous fantasy “A Snake Falls to Earth” as an ebook or audiobook for free and discuss with global audience All ages can experience Big…
Happy Juneteenth
Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily struggles of black Americans to combat racial injustice. The message resonated with millions across the country. Yet many of…
AAPI Heritage Month Reads
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here,…
Celebrate Poetry Month
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur,…
Earth Day Reading Recommendations from Hannah
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall Looking at the headlines--a global pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall,…
Big Library Read April 4-18
"Music Is History" combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. Borrow the eBook or eAudiobook with no waitlists or holds on Libby April 4-18. Focusing on the years 1971 to…
Women’s History Month Recommended Reading
Women Scientists in Math and Coding by Catherine Brereton Before modern-day desktops and laptops, there were human "computers" or mathematicians who handled complex calculations. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan were among the greatest computers, but their vital work…
Celebrate Black Authors this February
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho This book takes on all questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, that many white Americans find themselves too afraid to ask, yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than…