W. 11th & Bluff

When Bones ended after 12 seasons, I didn’t know where to turn. I thought my days of enjoying a funny, suspenseful murder mystery show with...

Recently I've needed a gentle, upbeat escape in the evenings, so I started watching Call the Midwife . This historical drama about a tea...

I really enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road (a.k.a. the car chase movie with interesting female characters), so when I saw previews for Atomic...

Sometimes it pays to take a chance on a book based entirely on the cover art or a clever title. Jumping into a story blindly with no re...

If you were one of the lucky folks who got to meet award-winning mystery author Lori Rader-Day when she visited Carnegie-Stout Public Lib...

Like a lot of people, I enjoy a good romance novel. And, also like many others, I have my preferences about what I want those novels to be l...

I plucked Breaking Wild  off the library shelf by chance, while selecting books for a wilderness display. I love stories set in wild place...

Jim Ottaviani has made a career of taking the lives and complex discoveries of scientists and mathematicians and translating them into...

The publication of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels (a quartet) has been one of the biggest literary events of the century (gran...

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

The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo may not have been the most well written book I've read in 2015, but its one that I reall...

The Beautiful Bureaucrat  is, at exactly 180 pages, not a long novel (the pedantic might say novella), but author Helen Phillips does not...

There are many reasons I loved Mad Max: Fury Road . I loved the guy tied to a truck with bungee cords playing a guitar that shoots flames. I...

As librarians, we put the priority on what you, the members of our community, will like and not just on the things that we like. That said, ...

First, a pop-quiz question: Who or what was the Bloomsbury Group? Answer: The Bloomsbury Group was a collection of early twentieth-cent...

Heroes and heroism are at the center of the 2015 summer reading program, when the library challenges readers of all ages to read something...

Photo Copyright © by Marian Wood Kolisch When Rachel wrote her review of The Dispossessed this weekend, I was reminded of how much I lo...

Imagine yourself at the local theater, highly anticipating what should be an amazing performance by a famous magician. Now imagine yoursel...

The only reason why I did not read Big Little Lies in one day is because I had to leave for work. Otherwise, I would have finished this 40...

The End of Always by Randi Davenport It’s the turn of the century in Waukesha, Wisconsin and seventeen-year-old Marie is trying to b...