April 6th is national asexuality day! To celebrate we’re highlighting some books that discuss asexuality and/or feature characters or people on the asexual spectrum. Be sure to check them out! ACE: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world…
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS…kind of. Did you know April 1st is also Edible Book Day? No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. To celebrate both Edible Book Day and April Fool’s we’d like to share some cookbooks on unexpected cakes! Whether they’re made from unexpected ingredients, baked through unexpected methods, or disguised in unexpected shapes, these…
March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility! To further highlight the underrepresented accomplishments and hidden histories of those in the transgender community, we have collected a list of titles written by and about those with a transgender identity throughout history and today. Transgender/Nonbinary History and Memoirs Female Husbands: a Trans History Long before people…
Happy Live Long and Prosper Day! To celebrate, we’ve decided to shine a spotlight on the newest Sci-Fi adventures and series available at Homewood Public Library. Dead Silence Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of…
Pisces is a water sign symbolized by two fishes swimming in opposite directions. This represents the division of Pisces’ attention between fantasy and reality. Pisces are psychic, sensitive, empathic, compassionate, gentle, and intuitive. They are also artistic, musical, and incorrigible romantics. Pisces tend to be daydreamers and reading serves as the perfect escape from reality…
Happy Spring! There is much to look forward to with warmer days and more sunlight. Is there ever a better time to pick up a new book? If you are a seasonal reader, then listed below are perfect Spring reads. These feel-good books will inspire you to shed any bulky clothes and escape your Winter…
