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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.
The gold rush made San Francisco a wild boom town where the streets were pure mud and the buildings were built haphazardly of canvas, oilcloth, and wood. Gangs ran the streets and crime was rife, and the city didn’t have much of a police force or even a fire department. San Francisco was poised for a disaster …
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898) is one of the first stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race, focusing on the adventures of a man and his brothers outside London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Discuss at the library on Monday, July 8, 2013, 1:30–3:00 pm in the Marvin Auditorium 101C.
Nick Falcott was about to die on a Napoleonic Battlefield when he disappeared and reappeared in the twenty-first century. Waiting for Nick was the Guild, an organization made up of other time travelers. The Guild takes care of its members by helping them to adjust and providing large incomes, but there is a price…
Find this week’s bestsellers at your library. There are two ways to get your hands on a bestseller title. One way is to place a request and the other way is to come in and check the new title shelves!
Hollywood has lost another movie legend. Revisit the life and films of swimming superstar Esther Williams.
The library’s “secret” books, you won’t want to pass up these titles. From historical to suspense, even romantic, you’ll die to know what secret will be revealed next.
Ranjit Singh was a former Indian army captain who fled to the United States and is now barely able to make a living as a landscaper at Martha’s Vineyard. He is desperate for work when he is offered a job as a caretaker of a Senator’s home. Ranjit is just supposed to check on the house, but secretly he …
John and Reve Walsh were well aware of the central irony of their lives: even though they had helped thousands of endangered and missing children through their advocacy of such programs as The Center for Missing Children, the Amber Alert, and the Missing Child Database, the person responsible for the kidnap and murder of their [...]
Find this week’s bestsellers at your library. There are two ways to get your hands on a bestseller title. One way is to place a request and the other way is to come in and check the new title shelves!
If you are a history buff, especially of World War II you won’t want to miss this opportunity. On June 10th, at 7:00 p.m. in Menninger Room. Dan King author and Pacific War Historian will review his book the Last Zero Fighter: King has written a first hand accounts of experience of Japanese Naval pilots. In addition to writing many [...]
27th Annual Sunflower Music Festival Washburn University’s White Concert Hall will feature a free concert series, the 27th annual Sunflower Music Festival, June 7th through 15th. Professional and student musicians from around the country will perform chamber and orchestral classical works, as well as a program of jazz music. Major pieces featured this year [...]
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