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Every year, book lovers wait with bated breath to see who the winners are for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. The National Book Award winners for 2023 have already been announced in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature. You can find a list of those titles below. As for the Booker Prize winners,Read More Read More
Calling all Swifites! Did you know you can listen to all of Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) albums on Hoopla for FREE with your library card? 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (Deluxe), 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) are all available to listen to right now! You can listen to all her albums for 7 days when you check them out on Hoopla. Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights are also available. Each month, library card holders can check out 10 items on Hoopla and each album is only one check out.Read More Read More
Now Open until December 27th! Hilda Demsky has been a Larchmont artist for 50 years. She is a member of Mamaroneck Artists Guild, have given workshops and is very involved in the Larchmont community. On Thanksgiving 2020, The New York Times invited poets’ laureate of the United States to submit, in 100 words or less, “what the people in their States would be thankful for” after the difficult year of COVID 19. More than thirty State poets laureate responded.Read More Read More
The League of Women Voters of Westchester is no longer printing out physical (paper) Voter Guides. As you might recall, these handy booklets contained useful information about upcoming elections such as polling station locations, ballot initiatives, candidates, etc.
Now, voters are encouraged to visit the League of Women Voters’ national website, www.Vote411.org. If you enter your home address, you can view your polling location as well as election deadlines and a full list of current races. You can also print a list of your potential votes/candidates to bring with you on election day.Read More Read More
About a week ago, we put up a post on our webpage about one of our books getting returned after 90 years. We thought it would be an interesting and amusing way to explain a little about what happens when books are overdue. Little did we know. That afternoon, Jeff Edwards from the Larchmont Patch came and talked to us about the book and took a few pictures. The next morning, this article appeared. We were thrilled the Patch had noticed our post. Little did we know.Read More Read More
Starting November 1st, Kanopy will be switching over from “play credits” to a new ticket system. Don’t worry, everything is basically staying the same. Depending on the title, videos will cost between 1 and 5 tickets to watch instead of credits. Each title will also have a corresponding viewing window of 3, 7, or 21 days. All titles will be clearly labeled with the ticket value and viewing window before pressing play. Read More Read More
We recently received an interesting package sent here from Virginia. Inside was a library book that was due on October 11th, 1933, one month shy of 90 years ago. The book, “Youth and Two Other Stories” by Joseph Conrad, was published in 1925. Now, I know what you are all thinking; I wonder how much that would be in overdue fees? At twenty cents a day, it seems like the fine could easily have reached over $6,400. But no, the real answer isRead More Read More
Local drug store employee Michelina Carbone loves to read and remembers reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain when she was in high school. She was surprised to hear that, since 1885, the novel is regularly challenged for racial slurs, rough language, and its depiction of slavery. Michelina believes that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an important book that should continue to be read by high school students.Read More Read More
Manor Park Deli’s Manu Singh had no idea that The Lorax by Dr. Seuss has been banned in many schools around America after parents accused the environmentally-conscious protagonist of “brainwashing” their children. This book was Manu’s favorite growing up and he is disappointed that future generations may not be able to read it as a kid the way he did.Read More Read More
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