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July / August 2023 Staff Picks

July / August 2023 Staff Picks

What a busy summer! Try one of our favorite reads while you try to beat the heat.  Michelle: How Can I Help You by Laura Sims Sims' novel is a compulsively readable psychological thriller appearing on over a dozen "Best of" lists. Margo works as a Library Assistant in a sleepy little town. No one has any idea Margo isn't her real name. Or that she used to be a nurse - a nurse accused of killing her patients. When a library patron dies in the restroom, something seems off to Patricia, the new...

100 YEARS of York history is now online: Welcome to  the York History Digital Archive!

100 YEARS of York history is now online: Welcome to the York History Digital Archive!

York Public Library, in partnership with Old York Historical Society, Advantage Preservation, and The York Weekly, is pleased to announce the long-awaited unveiling of the York History Digital Archive. Thanks to a generous grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, 100 years’ worth of York Weekly, its predecessors, related supplements, and miscellaneous ephemera has been completely digitized. It is relatively common for small town papers not to retain a physical archive of their...

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Black Lives Matter. Period.

I am a fierce believer in the role of libraries not only as purveyors of knowledge and understanding, but as places for communal civic discourse. Our nation is being torn apart by the recent horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others at the hands of police—the...

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