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One Cut of the Dead by Shin'ichirô Ueda

The movie, One Cut of the Dead, is a Japanese Horror-Comedy zombie movie. Sort of. The promotional material suggests that it’s about the crew of a low budget zombie film...

Celebrate Gardening Week: A Resource List for Adults

Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big & Small Spaces by Tara Nolan “Gardening Your Front Yard is an active, inspiring resource that shows you how to treat...

Posted by on April 19, 2021

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The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel by Howard Reich

Howard Reich, the son of two Holocaust survivors and a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, was assigned by the paper in 2012 to interview one of the world’s most well-known...

Posted by on January 21, 2021

cloudLibrary: Things To Do While Stuck at Home

Stuck at home and looking for something to do? Check out these resources, and many more, from CloudLibrary to get some ideas!

Posted by on December 1, 2020

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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson

Stephen Leeds is not insane. How do you know that? Well, he tells you that repeatedly. It’s his hallucinations that are crazy. Stephen Leeds is a genius, but his genius...

Posted by on November 24, 2020

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Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict by Marie Benedict

As a beautiful debutante in British society, 19 year old Clementine Hozier was reserved in the company of others. Often disliked due to the notoriety of her aristocratic parents, she...

Posted by on November 17, 2020

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Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon is the tragic, and mostly untold, history of the killing of many Osage Indians in the early 20th century. During this time, the Osage were...

Posted by on November 10, 2020

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The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll

The year is 1986 and Cliff Stoll’s grant money has just run out. One day he was an astronomer, working in the Keck Observatory of the Lawrence Berkeley Labs, the...

Posted by on November 3, 2020

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The Last Flight by Julie Clark by Julie Clark

If you had the chance to alter your future by switching identities with a total stranger – would you do it? Claire,  married into a powerful political family, is desperate...

Posted by on October 27, 2020

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The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

Waking up – from the middle of a dream – you wonder, what just happened? Where am I? Are you in a dream state or sleepwalking? Your thoughts freeze you...

Resource Guide: Amelia Earhart

Enjoy some of these digital resources on Amelia Earhart to go along with our virtual portrayal by Leslie Goddard!

Posted by on June 1, 2020

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Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison

One day in a corrupt, backwater town on Mars, a large crate shows up at the local police station. Inside? An experimental police robot. Initially the cops there use the...

Posted by on May 29, 2020

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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

Spensa’s people are under threat of annihilation. Imprisoned on a remote planet, they’ve been guarded by a race they call the Krell. In the past, the Krell would only raid...

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The Engineer’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood

The Engineer’s Wife is a historical fiction novel that opens up at the end of the Civil War. It follows the life of the suffragist, Emily Warren Roebling, and her...

Posted by on May 14, 2020

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Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers

There was an extraterrestrial event known as the Visitation. In it’s aftermath, six “zones” have come into being on Earth – dangerous areas where unexplained phenomena occur and there are...

Posted by on April 30, 2020

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