All the Wild That Remains As summer arrives with scorching temperatures, a profound drought with no end in sight, and the all-too-real threat of devastating wildfires, award-winning nature writer David Gessner’s newest book on the way we live now will resonate with Westerners wondering what comes next. Gessner's account of his road trip through the…
Welcome to the Future
Let me begin with a little nugget of personal biography: I spent some of my formative years among people who took prophecies about the end times and all that very seriously. So when I say that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a prophetic book, I do not mean that it necessarily provides an alarmingly spot on…
Rising Voices Youth Summit: Heather’s Experience
Two years ago, the Pima County Public Library was awarded a $100,000 planning grant from the MacArthur Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences to design a community learning lab for Tucson’s youth. The Library brought together a group of teens to design a youth center here in Tucson. This group, the Youth…
Christian Fiction – Biblical, End Times and more!
Here are a medley of Christian Fiction authors and their specialties: something for everyone.
Duran Duran Now
As a child of the 80's, Duran Duran was my second love (Rick Springfield was the first, but let's not go there, at least today!). If I mention Duran Duran to people my age these days, I get the typical response: "They're still around?" If I mention them to younger friends of mine, they're familiar…
Talking To Girls About Duran Duran
"Growing up in the 1980's, you were surrounded by mysteries" --Rob Sheffield, Talking To Girls About Duran Duran Talking to Girls About Duran Duran This one of my favorite quotes from this hilarious, endearing and relatable memoir about being a teenager in the 80's. "Talking" is a follow up to Sheffield's previous memoir "Love Is…
Alien Invasion! Classic style
We all know the standard, typical alien invasion story line.
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