Many countries celebrate a harvest festival. In today's America, we celebrate Thanksgiving and people think about what they are thankful for and celebrate with
Non-fiction Spotlight: The Zookeeper’s Wife
Non-fiction Spotlight: The Zookeeper's Wife This month we are looking at a fantastic piece by Diane Ackerman. The Zookeeper's Wife tells the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the husband-wife team behind the Warsaw Zoo in Poland. The Zookeeper's Wife The Zookeeper's Wife The Zookeeper's Wife The book is set in Warsaw, Poland just before…
Getting Cozy: Thanksgiving Dinner
Let's talk turkey. Thanksgiving is the best, so don't let this holiday pass your reading list by. Pick out one of these Thanksgiving-set cozy mysteries.
Marvel Cinematic Retrospective: X-Men Part 1
Marvel Cinematic Retrospective Fans today are living in a Golden Age of movies based on comic books. Kids, teenagers, and adults have grown up on the exploits of superheroes since the 1910's, and more recently, in film as well. Among the various comic book producers, few were as prominent and beloved as Marvel Comics. It…
Read Harder 2019 Challenge Tasks #21 and #22
Hello fellow readers! The challenges for this month are #21 A comic by an LGBTQIA creator and #22 A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009. Task #21 Read Harder 2019: A Comic by an LGBTQIA Creator Comics is a medium used to express ideas through images…
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November
Happy Guy Fawkes Day Who was Guy Fawkes, you ask? In 1605, many English Catholics were unhappy with the rules of King James I. Frustrated by lack of support for the Catholic Church and its followers, several nobles plotted to revolt. Central to their plot was the plan to blow up the House of Lords…
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