80 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards is Robert Osborne’s latest update to a series of histories he began when the Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1978. Osborne, a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter and long time host of the Turner Classic Movies network, is also the official historian of [...]
Subtitled “two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future,” Greasy Rider mixes the adventure of a cross country road trip with stories from the ecological side of America.
Author Greg Melville converts his 1995 Mercedes diesel to run on used cooking oil. So enthralled with his “new” vehicle, he enlists his [...]
All summer we will be highlighting some winners from the collection for summer reading. Try some new authors, explore some new topics, enjoy the pace of summer with the library.
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
In 2002 Rory Stewart, a British national and diplomat, set out to walk across Afghanistan. Accompanied by the dog Babur, [...]
Songbirds are more than just a chirping morning symphony-they may be the alarm clock for climate change. Songbird populations are dropping; scientists speculate that we have already lost half the population of US birds.
Biologist and ecologist Bridget Stuchbury outlines what this loss means to the health of our ecosystem-and to us. Stuchbury encourages individuals to [...]
Spring Break is here - time to pick up some vacation reading! Here are two suggestions.
Lethal Legacy
Murder in the library? The New York Public Library? Not quite, but the NYPL is the setting for much of Linda Fairstein’s 11th legal thriller starring sleuth Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. Cooper thinks she is investigating an assault/ [...]
Mark Vieira’s book Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, published in 1999, offers a fascinating window into a Hollywood era that many people know little about. It focuses on films made between 1929 and 1934 when studio filmmakers often ignored what became known as the Hays Code. This was basically an attempt by the major studios to head off government [...]
Ever sat through a long history lecture on kings or presidents and thought, “There must be more to the story?” Or even “What was everyone ELSE doing when Washington and his friends were crossing the Delaware?”
A Peoples’ History of the American Empire tells the real tale–the grassroots history–in graphic form (graphic=sequential art or comic book [...]