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Books, Movies & Music

The latest books, movies and music to hit library shelves, with some classics and great obscure stuff thrown in. Read staff and customer reviews here. Find out how you can contribute to this blog, and tap into our personalized reading request service.

Recent Books, Movies & Music Blog Posts

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Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Find this week’s bestsellers at the library. There are two ways to get your hands on a title; place a request and wait for it, or try your luck and check the new title shelves the next time you come in!

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New Kid’s Movies

New DVDs are on the way! Here is a list of children’s DVDs that will appear soon on the library’s shelves. Many of these titles are new to the library while others may be replacements or extra copies of already owned titles. Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer     Adventures of Bailey: Christmas Hero The Adventures of [...]

Black Fridays

Money, Murder, and Fatherhood in Black Fridays

Jason Stafford has just lost two years of his life in prison interrupting his aspiring career on Wall Street with his seven figure income and his marriage to his model wife. It was Jason’s own fault for his incarceration after he did some accounting shuffling at his firm that led to a huge scandal and threatened the solidity of a major investment bank. With Jason’s release he was finally free, but the income and his ex-wife and son were gone, and it wasn’t going to be easy…

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Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Find this week’s bestsellers at the library. There are two ways to get your hands on a title; place a request and wait for it, or try your luck and check the new title shelves the next time you come in!

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Comic Books to Movies in 2013 and Beyond

Speculations and expressions of high hopes often act as the sources of rumors regarding soon-to-be movies.  However, that information is frequently incorrect or subject to change. For example, you can find many articles with information about the next solo Batman movie, but nothing it seems, is set in stone.  Here, we will look at some [...]

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Zombies Everywhere in 21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology

Zombies can be so many things like brain dead monsters that are hungry for humans, but they can also be symbols or allegories. 21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden is a collection of short stories that takes the idea of zombies in whole new directions though the flesh eating kind zombie is included as well. This excellent collection includes nineteen stories that have never been published before.

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The Love Boat

In a previous post, I said “If you were anybody in the 1960’s and 1970’s, you probably appeared on detective shows like Columbo and Mannix.” Very nearly the same thing can be said about series later in the 1970’s and early 1980’s like The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. The Love Boat was an Aaron [...]

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November 2, 1:30-2:30 PM in the Topeka Room 204

Join award winning author Linda Rodriques for a talk about her new book.

“Fans of Nevada Barr and Sara Paretsky will relish Linda Rodriguez’s stellar debut. Her sleuth, Skeet Bannion, is a keeper. Every Last Secret is a triple crown winner; superb writing, hell for leather plotting and terrific characters.” – Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier

Why I Like Murder Books

Why I Like Murder Books

We know there are some thrill-seekers out there just dying for a good book about murder. Here are some killer recommended reads brought to you by our Facebook friends.

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Fiction & Nonfiction NYT Bestsellers

Find this week’s bestsellers at the library. There are two ways to get your hands on a title; place a request and wait for it, or try your luck and check the new title shelves the next time you come in!