Meet Mexican-Canadian novelist and short story writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia in a free, virtual author program on Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. REGISTER HERE Moreno-Garcia is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow, Mexican Gothic, Velvet...
Meet award-winning journalist and graphic novelist Malaka Gharib in a virtual author program on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. REGISTER HERE Her first book, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, won the 2020 Arab American Book Award and was named one of the Best...
Do you need some reading ideas for your book club? Want to start a book club but don’t know what to read? We’ve got you covered! NCW Libraries has more than 300 book club kits available for checkout to reading groups. Each kit has 12 copies of the same...
If you follow the news at all, you know that the number of attempts to remove certain books from libraries has exploded this past year. Today (April 4), the American Library Association released its list of the Most Challenged Books of 2021. According to ALA, the...
By Librarian Alyssa, Omak Public Library Women have been writing literature for as long as people have been reading it. Yet, the more well known authors are usually men. Women have only been credited in more recent times for their contributions to the literary world....