This article by Library Director Amber Mathewson was originally published in the Arizona Daily Star on Sep. 24, 2016.
The Ongoing Fight Against Sickle Cell Disease and Anemia
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. What do you know about it? Sickle Cell Disease encompasses several disorders in which a person’s red blood cells become hard and sickle-shaped, causing autoimmune issues of varying types. Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease in that collective that has affected millions of individuals—mostly African-Americans and other international members…
Book Review: Curious
Ask questions. Be curious. Then ask more questions.
The Undead Trendsetter
This book is going to be the most fun you’ve had in a long while. Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a dark and twisted throwback to the latest vampire trend, which ridicules the romanticization of the undead in a truly entertaining fashion, while staying creepy and full of tension. If the reputation…
Is Beauty Really In the Eye of the Beholder?
After Tally’s friends moved to the pretty part of the city, she was heartbroken. After all, she was left alone being Ugly, while her friends were out having the time of their lives. To combat this, she began her quest to find happiness. Along the way, she meets Shay, a fellow Ugly whose favorite pastime…
To Private or Not To Private: Website and Catalog Tip of the Week #15
Are you interested in using the various tools the library website has for you, but don’t want people all up in your business?
Created to Bring Misery: Evil and the Mask, reviewed
This review is about a book that I bought, started, and finished on the same day. Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura is told from the point of view of Fumihiro Kuki, a boy who was told by his father that he was ‘created to be a cancer on the world.’ His father tells him that it…
Not Just an Eight Hour Day
Labor Day was established to recognize the struggles working-class people and families have gone through in the history of the United States. Since the Industrial Revolution, workers have had to endure fear, pain, and death to get the rights made available to so many of us today, including paid time off for both illness and…
Why I ♥ Star Trek
Star Trek began its first run on September 8, 1966, but I was too young to appreciate it then. By the time Star Trek went into syndication I was a teenager who took to those stories of exploration and heroism exactly the opposite of the way a Klingon takes to Tribbles. I loved science fiction so…
Top 10 Reasons Snoopy has a Library Card
10. Birds love him. His best friend is a bird. 9. He loves reading about other smart dogs like the one in Cool Dog, School Dog. 8. The Red Baron is right on his tail so he'll check out Lords of the Sky to learn about other WWI flying aces. 7. To checkout home improvement books like 24 Weekend…
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