Books & AuthorsPublished August 21, 2022 Submitted by: Holly
Women's Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. The titles in this list offer both historical and fictional treatment of the women's suffrage movement and the hard-won right to vote.
More Books & Authors, Diverse VoicesPublished June 12, 2022 Submitted by: Holly
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” -Marjorie Blackman
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.” -Anne Tyler
Expand your understanding of the lives of others by reading these memoirs about gender identity.
More Books & AuthorsPublished January 30, 2022 Submitted by: Holly
"We read to know we're not alone." William Nicholson, Shadowlands
More Books & AuthorsPublished August 4, 2019 Submitted by: Holly
The childrens' collection at Springfield-Greene County Library offers books about the Apollo 11 moon landing for kids from tots to teens. Spark your child's curiosity about astronomy and space travel with the following books.
More Books & AuthorsPublished November 22, 2018 Submitted by: Holly
Once the province of literary fiction (George Orwell's "1984") or science fiction (Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"), dystopian literature has now entered the mainstream. Within the dystopian genre, several subgenres have emerged. Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," published in 1985, is considered the first feminist dystopian novel. It is set in a future society, a theocracy, where women have lost all civil rights, cannot own property, and are not even allowed to read. Due to a societal precipitous decline in fertility, women who are able to reproduce are enslaved and forced to bear children for the elite. In the decades since the publication of this landmark novel, more and more authors have considered the effects on women of drastic societal and political change.
More Books & AuthorsPublished October 4, 2018 Submitted by: Holly
Ongoing reasearch on dementia shows that mental stimulation--like challenging crosswords, math games, and logic puzzles--can help the brain stimulate connections between nerve cells and develop neural plasticity to defend against cell loss. The Library has many books of puzzles and games that can challenge your brain and have fun at the same time.
More Books & AuthorsPublished August 23, 2018 Submitted by: Holly
Over the last twenty years, neuroscience has blossomed, thanks to breakthroughs in imaging and neurochemistry, and research has started to reveal answers to questions about how and why humans think the way we do. The following list of books is a sampling of the many titles available at the Library about understanding thinking and how the new knowledge might be used to explain human cognition and potentially transform human behaviors.
More Books & AuthorsPublished May 10, 2018 Submitted by: Holly
It is not uncommon for a character’s name to appear in the title of a book, but some literary characters are so iconic that their very name conjures up a mood, a setting, a plot line, or even an entire genre. Today we salute those memorable characters and their stories.
More Books & AuthorsPublished January 4, 2018 Submitted by: Holly
Read them before you see them! These books are being made into feature films or series for television in 2018. More Books & AuthorsPublished December 7, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
On this anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II, let's remember the amazing stories of triumph and tragedy that have been set against the harsh realities of the war. More Books & AuthorsPublished October 19, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
As Halloween approaches, so do the scary movies, books, and costumes. But sometimes true stories are scarier than fiction. More Books & AuthorsPublished September 5, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
September inevitably brings thoughts and memories of school. Love or hate it, fall sends us back to the classroom. In honor of this yearly tradition, we've compiled a list of "campus" novels for your enjoyment.
More Books & AuthorsPublished June 8, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
Whether in the form of letters, diary entries, or excerpts from newspapers, interviews, books, and other documents, epistolary novels tell their stories in episodes from the point of view of one or more characters. More Books & AuthorsPublished April 9, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
From plaid flannel shirts to classic video games, a surge of 90's nostalgia has hit pop culture in the last few years. Generation Xers are pining for their decade, which made us at The Library reminisce about popular books from the 1990s. More Books & AuthorsPublished March 9, 2017 Submitted by: Holly
A list of titles to be published between March and May 2017. You may place any of these titles on hold right now, even those with future release dates. More