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The library’s trivia events provide fun for everyone, plus great prizes for the top trivia teams. The same event is offered twice in the same weekend to meet demand — the next trivia weekend is July 27-28, 2012. Register after June 1 at 580-4540.
Bargain hunters love a good garage sale. My favorite find at a garage sale was a crockpot I got for $5 that I used for many years. Whether you are selling or buying the library has a variety of resources that can help. Here are some tips and some suggested pre-sale reading. If you have [...]
The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library has a new and improved ereader display where you can test some of the newest ereaders and tablets.
Touring the library’s Travel Neighborhood to choose your next destination – a quiet getaway or an action-packed adventure – is a smart way to plan a trip and save money. It’s also a fun place to browse.
Bookmobiles are a huge convenience to those savvy patrons wishing to save on time and gas money. After all, it’s quick and easy to stop by your neighborhood Bookmobile location and pick up that hot new book or DVD that’s been on your mind. But, let’s face it – there may be times when an [...]
We’re starting a boys’ club to get more of our young gents excited about reading. Our Guys Read field office charters this Saturday!
Inspector Little was found in a trunk murdered with his eyes and mouth sewn shut. It’s a grisly scene, but that doesn’t compare to Jack the Ripper’s killings that have just recently ended. With a city still on edge, Inspector Walter Day with only a week on the job is assigned to the case, and he gets help from an unlikely place: Dr. Bernard Kingsley who is not officially a part of Scotland Yard but a part of the new science of forensic pathology.
Parents with kids birth-18 months can score big in our newest offering, the Bee a Reader summer reading program. Find out what rewards await these pre-readers.
We’ve done the work for your book group. All the stuff you need to conduct a book group is in our Book Group in a Bag kit. Check out all the kits at bgib.tscpl.org.
Carter told us about her growth from a young artist making “boy art” to trusting herself to work in media that made her feel at home.
A sadistic serial killer, Homer Gibbon, was executed for his crimes, but Homer didn’t stay dead. The prison doctor wants Homer to suffer so the doctor injects Homer with a drug that would keep his mind alive. Homer would be buried and later would regain consciousness and then die in a nightmare deep in the ground, but instead his body was sent elsewhere and not immediately buried. In a small town in Pennsylvania, Homer woke up very hungry.
