Monsters, goblins, and ghosts are the perfect characters for October reads. The children’s books listed below range from cutesy-creepy to spine-tingling thrillers. They feature dastardly […]
Centennial 100:1966-1976
Part six of a Read/Watch/Listen bookmark series by the Heights Matchmakers, celebrating the Heights Libraries’ Centennial decade by decade! Books: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys […]
Know Your Library #19
Phonograph records becoming available, a new photocopier, and Summer Reading results were shared in the monthly Noble News newsletter in 1964! Want to see more […]
Better Know a Library Staffer: Sheryl
Here on the blog the other Matchmakers and I share what we are reading, watching, or listening to quite frequently, but we don’t often hear from […]
James Friedman Art Exhibit
Oil and acrylic on canvas and paper.
Know Your Library #18
A room and book collection for Young Adults was opened in 1960. Want to see more articles about the library like this one? Check out […]
Better Know a Library Staffer: Nancy
Here on the blog the other Matchmakers and I share what we are reading, watching, or listening to quite frequently, but we don’t often hear […]
NYC, a Historic Hotel and Independent Women
Set in NYC’s historic Barbizon Hotel for Women, now a luxury residential condominium, Fiona Davis’ entertaining debut novel, The Dollhouse, weaves together two stories about young women […]
Know Your Library #17
The University Heights branch held discussion groups, lectures, and circulated over 260,000 volumes in the year 1960! Want to see more articles about the library […]
Not Literally Swans
Gossip and glamour, fashion and extravagance…. this is the world of mid-twentieth-century New York City that Melanie Benjamin creates so well in her novel, The Swans […]