For many Americans, June is a month for celebration and reflection as part of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month). Pride is currently celebrated around the United States each year, to honor the June 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots, sparked by mistreatment and harassment of patrons of gay establishments, […]
Is there ever a time when Jane Austen is not in the news? Now that a never published manuscript has been made into the movie Love and Friendship, all things Austen are in the limelight. Do you ever stop to think how the Austen mystique has lasted all these years? At least one author has […]
On Wednesday, May 18th at 7pm, local writer and poet and former publisher of The Sun Chronicle, Oreste P. D’Arconte, will read in its entirety and discuss his 24-page short story, “One Way Dead End.” This story was published earlier this year in the pulp fiction anthology, “Murder Ink”. The book is a collection of 13 stories written by […]
Did you know that the library hosts a World War II Nonfiction Book Club? Over the years, the book club has read some wonderful titles which often coincide with popular fiction titles. If you loved The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, then try Caroline Moorehead’s A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and […]
