[3] The Tuesday before Thanksgiving last year, the L.H. Bluford Branch had an impromptu Turkey Day feast. “It was crazy. Kids just kept coming in droves,” remembers Mary Olive Thompson, assistant branch manager and children’s librarian at Bluford. “It really felt like Thanksgiving.”
[5] Jack London is best known for books about boys and their dogs, but as L.H. Bluford Branch librarian Bernie Norcott-Mahany explains, London was also the first dystopian novelist of the 20th century. His book The Iron Heel [6] is a complex and enriching story of a not-so-glorious future.
[8] In 1997, 84-year-old former freewheeling photographer Jack Wally told the Kansas City Star what it was like shooting for the scrappy, provocative Kansas City Journal-Post in the 1930s: “In those days, you had to decide whether you wanted the prestige of The Star or the fun of working for the Journal.”
[10] In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterwork, America has collapsed, the Republic of Gilead has risen, and women’s rights have been dismantled. In our latest Winter Reading Video, Waldo Branch Manager Alicia Ahlvers tells how The Handmaid’s Tale [11], her selection for the 2011 Winter Reading Program [12], influenced her life as a reader and thinker.
[14] Colonial Massachusetts was not an easy place to survive. Strained relations with the native peoples, smallpox outbreaks, and barbaric wolves (of both the four-legged and two-legged, human varieties) devoured all who showed weakness in mind, body, or spirit. But in Kathleen Kent’s The Wolves of Andover [15], the most treacherous forces in 17th century America were often unseen.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/help-harvesters-kids-caf-open-business-library
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11964#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/new-winter-reading-video-librarian-bernie-norcott-mahany-iron-heel
[6] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=the%20iron%20heel%20london
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11962#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/paparazzi-past-kansas-city-journal-post-photos
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11935#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/new-winter-reading-video-librarian-alicia-ahlvers-handmaids-tale
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=handmaid's%20tale
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/reading2011
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11911#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-wolves-andover
[15] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Kathleen+Kent%22+title:%22wolves+of+andover%22
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-wolves-andover#comments
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=93
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=90
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=91
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=92
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=95
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=96
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=97
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=98
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=111
