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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Staff Review: "Addicted to Outrage" by Glenn Beck

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We live in divisive times, my friends. Recent polling data shows that a majority of Americans believe that American politics have reached ...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior

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Sarah Kendzior is a journalist writing from St. Louis, Missouri, a city firmly tucked in "flyover country," that large swathe o...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Staff Review: God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright

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Lawrence Wright 's new book, God Save Texas , is a personal, highly anecdotal look at his home state, a place with which he clearly ha...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Staff Review: "Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me" by Lorina Mapa

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I recently lost several family members in a car accident so the first few pages of Lorina Mapa's graphic memoir were emotionally inte...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Staff Review: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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In 2015 I chose Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates as my best book of the year . It was a difficult book to read given that it...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Staff Review: The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams

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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...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

#ComicsWednesday: PREZ Volume 1: Corndog-In-Chief by Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, & Mark Morales

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I don't really read a lot of DC comics. I'm more of a Marvel or BOOM! girl, myself, but sometimes a comic just calls to me. PREZ...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Staff Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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I do not consider myself a connoisseur of science fiction, but I think it is safe to say The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin is a clas...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Patron Picks: What Dubuque is Reading

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Summer is in full swing, and there's nothing nicer than to curl up with a good book in the shade with some iced tea or lemonade or wha...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Check these books out from the comfort of your own home

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This week we're spotlighting a few titles available as eBooks through Carnegie-Stout's OverDrive collection . Some of these titles a...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Dubuque Tournament of Books: Sweet Sixteen

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The madness begins! Welcome to Round One of the Dubuque Tournament of Books! Voting for the first round will run from March 3rd - March  ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Dubuque Tournament of Books: Meet the Contestants

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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...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Spotlight on Historical Biography

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Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, is both well-reviewed and turning an impressive box office p...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Vote today!

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After so many months (years?) Election Day has finally arrived! If you haven't already voted, as about 30% of Dubuque County has...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Spotlight: Political Mysteries

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With the excitement of this week's visits to Iowa by Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, and current President Barack Obama , there...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Presidential Elections and Dubuque

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It's not every day the President of the United States visits Dubuque, but every eight years or so we find ourselves a destination on the...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Spotlight: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Charles Taylor

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Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, has been in the news recently due to his recent conviction for war crimes committed in Sierr...