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To Sever or Not To Sever
To Sever or Not To Sever
May 18, 2025
The puzzle-box show that took the country by storm wrapped its second season in March 2025. Severance is…
PTSD Awareness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
June 11, 2016
June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness month, and the Special Collections Division has numerous veterans' stories which discuss this issue…
Nashville Rising: Our Story of the 2010 Flood
Nashville Rising: Our Story of the 2010 Flood
May 1, 2016
During May 1-2, 2010, Nashville received more than 13 inches of rainfall, forcing the Cumberland River, and several others, over their banks…
Memoirs With a Little Something Extra
Memoirs With a Little Something Extra
May 19, 2025
These three memoirs (and three of my favorite books of the year!) pair personal reflection with a) feral cats, b) Virginia Woolf, and c) technology reporting…
Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Girl With All the Gifts
Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Girl With All the Gifts
May 11, 2015
Introducing Melanie, the smartest of a group of children being taught in an underground facility. They have a variety of teachers, some cold and calculating, others loving and…
Addiction, Fire, and Prison Life - A Book Review of Fellside by M.R. Carey
Addiction, Fire, and Prison Life - A Book Review of Fellside by M.R. Carey
May 8, 2016
Having read The Girl with All the Gifts, I was really excited to pick up the second book under Mike Carey’s new pen name. Mike Carey is very well-known in the…
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
May 5, 2016
If you liked Devil in the White City…
At last! This nonfiction…
The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy
The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy
May 23, 2016
We've all seen some of the amazing puppet shows that Wishing Chair Productions has put on, and therefore, we've seen the diverse collection of puppets that they have. But there is…
Karen Piper
Karen Piper, Librarian
Audio Books for Summer Road Trips
Audio Books for Summer Road Trips
May 22, 2025
We are right up against the official kickoff of summer. And you know what that means? That’s right. ROAD TRIPS!!! Woohoo! I don’t particularly love driving long distances, but if…
Free yoga at the library...
Free yoga at the library...
May 16, 2016
...and dancing, and meditation, and gardening, and more. With Be Well at NPL, we're stepping up as a key player in advancing community health…
She's Back and She's Going Hard
She's Back and She's Going Hard
May 9, 2016
Sin-Dee hasn't even been out of jail for 24 hours, yet she's already stomping across Tinseltown starting fights and taking names…
Children's Day at the Southeast Branch Library
Children's Day at the Southeast Branch Library
May 17, 2016
Children’s Day/El Día de los Niños, which is commonly referred to as Día, is a nationally recognized celebration created to emphasize the importance of literacy in children from all…
Bright Lights, Dark Nights YA Book Review
Bright Lights, Dark Nights YA Book Review
May 19, 2016
Bright Lights, Dark Nights is a modern tale of first love between star-crossed teen lovers; Walter, the comic book nerd, who loves the Wu-Tang Clan and film noir and Naomi, the athlete, who…