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January 2025 Staff Picks

January 2025 Staff Picks

Jan 9, 2025 | , ,

Kick off your reading goals with some inspiration!  See what books our staff loved in January.Michelle: Wordhunter by Stella Sands WORDHUNTER by Stella Sands: "an utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes." Sidebar: it even includes sentence diagrams!!! Huzzah!   Devin: Last Kids on Earth by Max Brailler I’ve been reading these illustrated novels with my son, and I love...

December 2024 Staff Picks

December 2024 Staff Picks

Dec 26, 2024 | , ,

Unwrap a Good Book: Our Staff's December Reading RecommendationsMichelle: How to Read a Book by Monica Woods A lovely gem of a book. Wood's novel focuses on three characters whose stories are told in alternating chapters. Harriet is a retired English teacher who leads a book club at a women's prison. Violet is one of the women in her group; she is incarcerated for vehicular homicide. Frank is the husband of the woman Violet killed. Violet is released from prison and the story unfolds from...

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The Future Is Now: Talking About Climate Realities

Feb 7, 2022 |

York Public Library together with the Town of York’s Climate Action Plan Steering Committee will launch four months of programming related to climate change beginning in February. The series, The Future Is Now: Talking about Climate Realities is made possible in part by additional support from the...

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February 2022 Staff Picks

Feb 1, 2022 | ,

Stuck inside with the cold weather this month? Warm up with a good book.Michelle: History of Wild Places by Shea Earnshaw As the blurb on the book’s cover reads: “What a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down.” - Erika Swyler Travis Wren is a shell of a man with a talent for finding missing people....

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January 2022 Staff Picks

Dec 30, 2021 |

What's the best way to start 2022? With a new book! Check out some of our favorites below. Michelle: On Animals by Susan Orlean My husband has a running list of “People I’d Like to Have a Beer With.” I’ve since started my own list - though I’ve broadened mine to include wine and mixed drinks...

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Coming Soon… Mondays!

Dec 20, 2021 | ,

For many, Mondays are a source of dread: the weekend is over, there's rush hour traffic to deal with, you have an all-around feeling of malaise, and you can't get to the Library to pick up a movie or a book. Or three.  Monday hours at the Library had never been an option - until voters approved...

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Comics Plus has come to YPL!

Dec 17, 2021 | ,

By Devin Burritt, Reference and Technology Librarian for York Public Library I came to graphic novels and manga as an adult. As a kid, my idea of a comic was something that was expensive, only contained a tiny bit of a plot, and was more likely than not to be about a superhero. It’s not that I...

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