National Fair Housing Month celebrates the passage of the Fair Housing Act in April, 1968, a national law that prohibits discrimination in the sale,...
Journeys of Self-discovery
I read a lot of romance, but these two books struck me as a little bit different than your typical romantic faire. Must Love Books and Float Plan...
Cryptocurrency: What is it?
What is cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is a digital payment system that doesn't rely on banks to verify transactions. It’s a peer-to-peer system...
Hair Stories
Hair! What a surprisingly powerful part of us. Hair is one way we can celebrate our individuality, our cultures and histories, our identities. Hair...
Stream Movies at Heights Libraries!
I thought I would use my blog post this month to promote our movie streaming services. Heights Libraries gives cardholders access to thousands of...
Take a Nature Walk—With a Book!
Though the Northeast Ohio winter seems to drag on forever, the slow transition into spring can be extremely rewarding to those with an appreciation...
Black History Month: New Af-Am Fiction
As we celebrate Black History Month, here is a list of new titles in the Heights Libraries African-American Fiction collection. We want to lift...
Goodbye Overdrive, Hello Libby
Have you been using OverDrive to get eBooks and audio books for a long time? Well, there is a change coming, and it’s name is Libby. OverDrive, the...
Toni Morrison’s Sula
Jamaican-born author Marlon James has recently become one of my favorites. I have blogged about his novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf in the past, and...
The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain
Before vaulting to fame with Kitchen Confidential and shows like No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain penned a series of crime novels in the late...
Steve Luxenberg on Plessy versus Ferguson
Steve Luxenberg discusses his nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, which was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
When you just want to get away
I don't know about you, but when the weather turns snowy and gray, I long to be somewhere much more tropical than Cleveland. Since travel to warmer...
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