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June is Audiobook Month! There are only a few days left to celebrate in 2019, but Carnegie-Stout Public Library's collection of download...

June is Audiobook Month! To celebrate, borrow a Nonfiction audiobook from Carnegie-Stout Public Library's collection. Here are a few mem...

May 5th is National Astronaut Day, a celebration of the United States' achievements in space exploration. The date was selected in comme...

When I choose a book for the library book discussion I try to find something outside of my comfort zone. More often than not, I enjoy the bo...

Bruce Springsteen 's not a rocker, he's a religion -- to my mind. I worship the guy and his music, having been baptized in the chur...

Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance , now in its 28th week on the New York Times bestseller list , is a memoir written and published at just ...

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead may be the best book I read in 2016. I read it (twice!), just after the unsavory election season ...

I can't say that I loved reading a book about the man behind the frozen food industry. It wasn't at all my usual sort of book, but...

If Lin-Manuel Miranda , Ron Chernow , and Alexander Hamilton have sparked your interest in the history of the United States' founding...

A video posted by Carnegie-Stout Public Library (@carnegiestout) on Mar 21, 2016 at 12:46pm PDT I come from a family of book lovers, b...

Celebrity memoirs are a sort of guilty pleasure for me, but unlike the creepy paparazzi pictures of a celebrity's beach vacation, a me...

If you're looking for a quick, uplifting read with a little more substance than your usual summer flicks, I have a recommendation for ...

If you haven't seen the trailer for  Steve Jobs  (based on the book by Walter Isaacson), here's a link to it. Starring Michael Fas...

We've pulled together a few favorites for you to check out before the first real winter storm of the season hits. Stop by the Recomm...

Z: an novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler gives a Lost Generation view from Zelda’s eyes rather than from her more famous spo...

The madness begins! Welcome to Round One of the Dubuque Tournament of Books! Voting for the first round will run from March 3rd - March  ...

Voting for the first ever Dubuque Tournament of Books begins on Sunday, March 3rd. There's still time to enter the contest with your pic...

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, is both well-reviewed and turning an impressive box office p...