Website Content Search
Displaying 176 - 200 of 208
Book list
October - December 2022 Issue
Last updated 1 month 2 weeks ago
1.851
MADreads post
What was the last book you read that just made you happy? If one doesn't immediately pop into your head, I suggest checking out In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. Though it started a…
Last updated 1 month ago
… striving to keep peace among the creatures that live in the land through diplomacy. Elliot is not immediately … also one of the best LGBTQ teen novels I've ever read, as well as being laugh-out-loud funny. I'd highly recommend it …
1.822
MADreads post
Have you ever had a truly special pet? Not just a pet that you love and care for, but a pet who profoundly changes you? Naturalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery refers to "a lifetime…
Last updated 1 month ago
… art and illustrations by Rebecca Green are charming as well. … A once in a lifetime pet …
1.805
Page
**Spanish description below**
Kaypimi Kanchik | We Are Here: Honoring Indigenous Migration Stories and Celebrating the Kichwa Community in WI, is a Library Takeover event planned for Saturday, April…
Last updated 2 weeks 5 days ago
… This team is passionate about migration and identity, as well as sharing historical insight into the indigenous Kichwa …
1.803
MADreads post
Beethoven is everywhere. Cell phones trill ‘Fur Elise,’ parents dote as their offspring murder ‘Ode to Joy’ and the first four notes of the Fifth Symphony practically define classical music for many…
Last updated 1 month ago
… is Suchet’s research on Beethoven’s increasing deafness, well established by 1801—prior to the completion of all of …
1.785
Article
Stop into Hawthorne Library every Thursday afternoon at 2PM for a movie matinee! This is a film series for adults that presents critically-acclaimed and award-winning feature films, with…
Last updated 1 month ago
… feature films, with documentaries shown occasionally, as well. Most films will be English language, and English …
1.779
MADreads post
Once again, I find myself captivated by a book that begins with a sad and messed up family, careens through tragedy and ends up with glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel.
Last updated 1 month ago
… each weekend to be his only visitor. But things don't go well for Carlito in prison. Tormented by her guilt, Reina …
1.748
MADreads post
In the Young Adult book world, there are many new, fresh voices being represented as well as more titles from favorite YA authors. Here are some YA books that have left an impression on me this past…
Last updated 1 month ago
… there are many new, fresh voices being represented as well as more titles from favorite YA authors. Here are some … a perfect match. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe - A really well-done graphic novel memoir about the author’s experiences … classes but they attend the same private school and live together. This is partly based on the author’s …
1.743
Book list
Last updated 1 month 2 weeks ago
… to save their world. Available to download: eBook Audio Well of Darkness Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Series: …
1.729
MADreads post
The Lakeview Mystery Group had an eclectic mix of titles for our most recent quarter of reading. A classic, a thriller and an historical that's a fictionalized account of one of the first female…
Last updated 1 month ago
1.716
MADreads post
A young female intern bowled over by the charms of a worldly politician, unhappy in his marriage. Assignations in the office after hours, futile attempts to end the affair, a scandalous revelation in…
Last updated 1 month ago
… Levin’s long suffering wife Embeth and Ruby, as well as Jane, give their aspects of the story until Aviva …
1.701
MADreads post
I think it’s pretty safe to say that we’d like to have Mary Roach in our high school science classes. Her ‘can-you-believe-this’ odd factoid interjections would likely liven up most classrooms while…
Last updated 1 month ago
… it’s human law these beastly criminals have run afoul, and well, that’s where things get fuzzy. And it’s primo territory … so-called Second Battle of Midway, it’s probably just as well—the Midways firmly remain in the albatrosses’ grasp. …
1.611
Impact story
Thanks to partnerships between the library and local community organizations, young people in Madison are having more opportunities to connect with authors that are relevant to them.
Last updated 1 month ago
… to learn that Angie Thomas grew up in Mississippi as well. Her joy at recognizing similarities with this author …
1.598
MADreads post
Afi Tekple’s wedding is a rousing success in spite of the fact that the groom isn’t present. But that is to be expected of a young and wealthy businessman whose travels take him far from home on a…
Last updated 1 month ago
… this a fast and entertaining read. Afi is a character well worth rooting for, and it’s a delight to see Accra …
1.569
MADreads post
Though slavery ended in 1865, the importation of Africans as slaves was outlawed nearly fifty years earlier in 1808 with an act of Congress banning the practice. The truth, like most everything in…
Last updated 1 month ago
… on just how the ghosts of the slave trade, long thought well-buried, exist surprisingly close to the surface both … the attention they deserve, Raines has done his job well. Pair it with Zora Neale Hurston’s essential record of …
1.467
MADreads post
I'm at a super busy and tired time in my life, maybe the busiest I've ever been, and I need coffee to get through my day. I work full-time, I keep track of soccer and piano and swimming lessons…
Last updated 1 month ago
… Cait Flanders on her way to living on 51% of her income. Well done! I'm not sure about this method for me. I'll …
1.465
MADreads post
It's 1946 and a young widow named Grace Healey stumbles upon a suitcase left under a bench in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. At the same moment, a former British special agent named Eleanor…
Last updated 1 month ago
… after that. There are enough books here to keep me reading well into 2020. … Spy ladies are the thing …
1.425
Impact story
Madison Public Library has worked to provide food and food resources for years through innovative partnerships and community connections.
Last updated 1 month ago
1.421
Book list
October - December 2024 Issue
Last updated 1 month 2 weeks ago
1.412
Book list
Last updated 1 month 2 weeks ago
… discover big-hearted best friends Joe Bot and Rob Ot, as well as their nemesis, Tinny. Cat Kid Comic Club Dav Pilkey …
1.375
MADreads post
In keeping with my new minted tradition (second posting like this, first one is here) I come to you with a report on how the Lakeview Mystery Book Group's recent discussions have gone.
Last updated 1 month ago
… of the year, both in how much we liked the book and how well it worked for a discussion. Helena Pelletier has a good …
1.362
Impact story
This summer, the Bubbler’s Making Justice program was lucky to participate as a host site for the Young African Leaders’ Initiative (YALI). Five young
adults from five African nations, partnered with…
Last updated 1 month ago
… able to share their distinctive culture and experiences as well. Developing Understanding Our YALI fellows quickly …
1.351
MADreads post
Longer nights have returned, so what better time to indulge with a gripping ghost story, or THREE!
If your family dares to read these three fantastic chapter books (suitable for most 9-10 year olds…
Last updated 1 month ago
… huge manor house is full of the secrets of the living, as well as the dead. A thoughtful and emotionally honest work of historical fiction, Ophie's Ghosts is equal-parts well-paced mystery and supernatural thriller, and I couldn't …
1.328
MADreads post
Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
Last updated 1 month ago
… stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. I'll …
1.315
Book list
Regency/Victorian | American
Last updated 1 month 2 weeks ago
… kidnaps him and takes him to the countryside to recover, well away from the world, all while Martin tries to decide …
1.284