At the end of September this year, Gale replaced its Career Transitions resource with Peterson’s Career Prep. HPL now offers this new resource to cardholders. Peterson’s Career Prep contains user-friendly tools for discovering career paths and crafting professional resumes and job application materials. Here’s how Gale describes it: Choosing a career path doesn’t come easy. […]
Read your way through the winter by participating in our Winter Reading Challenge on Beanstack! Complete reading challenges and activities to earn points. Earn 50 points and be entered to win a prize bag featuring a $25 Amazon gift card and other goodies! The challenge will run from 12/21 to 2/28, but you can pre-register […]
Chance read Everything on a Waffle and this is what he thought… Eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp lives in Coal Harbour, British Columbia, Canada. After her parents her swept away at sea, Primrose is placed in the care of her uncle Jack. The book follows Primrose as she continues her daily routine, not in mourning for her parents, but […]
Winter holiday books are now available for browsing in our downstairs children’s area! To celebrate our holiday book cart, we produced this short film. Please enjoy!
Have you become obsessed with playing Among Us? Take a break and pick up one of these books that are full of sus characters and situations!
Celebrate Native American Heritage month this November with a good book – or two! This booklist of Children’s titles highlights books written and illustrated by Native American authors. Click on the image to request that title from our catalog. Checkout winners of the American Indian Youth Literature Award: here. Fiction Titles Younger Readers Older Readers […]
Joan read OCDaniel and this is what she thought… Daniel is a typical eighth-grader. He’s desperate to fit in, to make his father proud, and hide the fact that he thinks he might be crazy. He’s pretty busy with school and football (and Zaps and Routines), but then he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. […]
November has been recognized as Native American Heritage Month since President George H.W. Bush’s proclamation in 1990. Visit here for more information. Check out this list of young adult books by and about Native Americans! Non-Fiction Titles Fiction Titles
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.” If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for this book for 16 years! Susanna Clarke’s first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, is a delicate masterpiece of storytelling magic, and is a book I revisit every year so my bar was set high for her […]
On the first page of Maids, a graphic novel by Katie Skelly, a young woman picks a human eyeball off the floor and cautiously pokes at it with her index finger. As she is about to prod the pupil of the disembodied ocular sphere, Skelly shifts the frame to show the same young woman ringing […]
