If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't know your beloved series is coming out as a movie or that the fun-looking preview you saw was adapted from a book, how can you join the debate? The Library is here to the rescue! Here, we will be...
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Supernatural Summer: Classic English and American Ghost Stories
Lazy beach days… rainbow sno-cones… flip-flops and sunglasses… wandering phantasms from beyond the grave… it's all part of your favorite season of fun in the sun!
Mejora tu estado de ánimo con la comida
Vivir una vida que disfrute puede depender de muchas cosas. Un factor importante que contribuye a la calidad de vida es su salud mental y física. Cuando su salud en general está en declive, todos los demás aspectos de su vida también sufren.
Improving Your Mood With Food
Your brain is working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep your body functioning. It also contributes to our mental health by informing the body to release hormones that regulate our moods. Yet, we hardly ever think about how the food we eat affects our brains and our emotions.
Interview With a 2Spirit Story Teller: Juan A. Reynoso: nemuuly (Grizzly Bear)
Juan Angel Reynoso is an Ipai-Kumeyaay 2Spirit storyteller, advocate, teacher, and holistic culturally-trauma-responsive practitioner. Juan was born and raised in San Diego, CA. He is a Native American Indian from the San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay Indians.
Interview With an Author: Meg Shaffer
Meg Shaffer is a part-time creative writing instructor and a full-time MFA candidate in TV and Screenwriting at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.
Interview With an Author: Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill is the author of fifteen books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series.
Interview With an Author: C.E. McGill
C. E. McGill is 23 years old and was born in Scotland and raised in North Carolina.
Cormac McCarthy 1933-2023
Critic Harold Bloom referred to Cormac McCarthy’s violent masterwork Blood Meridian as the greatest novel by a living American a
Cataloging Rolland J. Curtis
"I found this... what will you find?"
Interview With an Author: Brittany N. Williams
Brittany N. Williams () is a classically-trained actress who studied Musical Theatre at Howard University and Shakespearean performance at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London.









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