Every Shake is a Learning Experience

Events ought to expand our experiences, right? So the shimmy and shake we felt in the Roanoke Valley Tuesday should send us searching for more information about earthquakes. A good place to start is in Brown Library. Plate Tectonics : an Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth and Earthshaking Science: What we [...]

Banned Book Club Selection: Cat’s Cradle

Available for checkout at Brown Library (in book and e-book format) and at your local public libraries. The Banned Book Club’s next selection is Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Published in 1963, Cat’s Cradle is a classic sci-fi novel, satirically taking on the subjects of religion, science, morality, and technology. Nominated for a Hugo award, the book was [...]

Banned Book Club Selection: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Available for checkout at Brown Library and at your local public libraries. The Banned Book Club’s next selection is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Published in 1994, this was his first book, and it immediately became a New York Times bestseller. It is considered a ”non-fiction novel,” in the tradition of Truman [...]

Staff Picks: A New Earth

Available through Interlibrary Loan Earlier in the year, I decided to read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now. I hadn’t read any of his work before, but it had always come highly recommended. I am glad I finally did pick up A New Earth, as it’s [...]

Staff Picks: You Learn by Living

Available through Interlibrary Loan Although my bookcase at home is loaded with new books asking to be read, and despite the wonderful new books that Brown Library has added to its collection this year, I recently went “old school” and picked up a book first published in 1960: You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt. [...]

Staff Picks: Three Cups of Tea

Available as a free downloadable audiobook and through Interlibrary Loan I am in a book club at the Yoga Center on Franklin Road. We’re currently reading Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It’s about Greg Mortenson, a man who tries to [...]