What do you do when your whole family is suddenly gone? How do you keep going, and how do you find any meaning in life? Even worse, how do you figure this out when you're only 12 years old? This is the premise of Dear Edward, the best-selling book by Ann Napolitano. Young Eddie is…
Newspapers are one of the most valuable sources for finding information about our ancestors. Happily, Newspapers.com is offering free access this weekend, through February 17, 2020, 11:59 Mountain Time. Click on this link to register and start searching. Good luck!…
At the start of this book, Matt Rose is in a Humvee in eastern Baghdad, not sure who he is or what he's doing there. Five months later, Rose is back in Missoula, Montana, his hometown, discharged from the military with a traumatic brain injury and still trying to piece together memories of his past…
Becky and Nate get together for the 5th year in a row to talk about last night's Academy Awards Ceremony. They discuss some of the biggest surprises and their favorite moments, plus recommend a few 2019 films you may have missed. http://traffic.libsyn.com/cooklib/The_Year_in_Film_2019___Oscars_Recap.mp3…
On the first Thursday evening of each month an enthusiastic group of genealogists meets at Cook Park to share ideas, break down brick walls, learn a little, and have some fun. Last week we did all of the above. We welcomed a couple of new attendees this month and answered their questions about software programs…
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Freshman Boady Sanden’s life at St. Ignatius High is miserable and it only gets worse when, one day in the school cafeteria, he trips one of the school bullies and thwarts his scheme to dump…
I can’t remember a book in recent memory that has generated as much praise and uproar as American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Before the novel’s publication, it received rave reviews from the major book review publications, including Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist. Famous authors praised the work, including Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Ann…
By this point in January, the shine is off the new year. Resolutions are falling by the wayside. The snow is grimy, the sky is glum, and everything is salt-encrusted. The puppy has, perhaps, chewed a hole in the elbow of your favorite sweater or the toe of your favorite socks (or both). If you,…
One of my passions as a genealogy librarian is encouraging people to write their family history stories. I firmly believe that the names, dates, and places on our family trees are much more interesting to most of our family if they are shared in interesting stories. Are you ready to write your family story? Probably…
Has there ever been a more accurate word to describe the period between childhood and adulthood (a.k.a. the teenage years) than “wildhood”? Authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers use the apt descriptor as the title of their latest book Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals. In it, they…
