W. 11th & Bluff

Looking for books that are both entertaining and straight forward? Music memoirs are a fun way to learn about the events behind your favor...

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...

Ever feel like you’re stuck in a rat race? Yeah, me too. RX: a graphic memoir by Rachel Lindsay explores the rat race of corporate Amer...

I cannot recommend the memoir Educated by Tara Westover highly enough. It is captivating -- practically un-put-downable -- and very well ...

I recently lost several family members in a car accident so the first few pages of Lorina Mapa's graphic memoir were emotionally inte...

You might recognize Diane Guerrero from Jane the Virgin  or Orange is the New Black , but this isn't your typical celebrity memoir. G...

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...

I know, I know, you've been wondering when a book about writing was finally going to be featured. Well, your long wait is over! The Ar...

I was browsing YouTube a few weeks ago, as one does, and I stumbled upon a channel called Ask a Mortician. There were video titles like ...

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...

The Hour of Land : A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams stands a very good chance of being my 2...

Guy Delisle is a French-Canadian cartoonist who has made a career creating biographical comics, building on the strong foundation of h...

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 don't know why it has taken me almost twenty years to notice the essay collection The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard and read (o...

It's a bit of a cliche that librarians are cat people , but it's definitely true that cats and libraries are a great combination. ...

Did you know that June is Great Outdoors Month ? It's hard to resist the call of the outdoors in the early days of summer, whether you...

Displacement: A Travelogue  is the fourth* book from the autobiographical cartoonist  Lucy Knisley , and it is my hands-down favorite.** I...

The annual celebration of the average bicyclist is coming! Are you ready for Bike to Work Week (May 16-20)? The Dubuque Bike Coop is coming...