Top 5 Romantic Books at the Library – E-Book Edition

Earlier this week, we posted about the top 5 most checked out romantic books in the Dick Smith Library\’s physical collections. This time we\’re listing the library\’s top 5 romantic e-books – which, by the way, can be checked out by Tarleton students, faculty, and staff no matter where you are. 1. Crazy Rich Asians

One Giant Leap for Mankind

July 16th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon. It landed on the moon 4 days later.   The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and , Edwin \”Buzz\” E. Aldrin Jr., at 9:32 a.m.

LGBTQ Pride Month

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. You can celebrate by reading one of \”The 25 Best LGBT Novels of All Time\” according to the Advocate magazine. 1. Giovanni\’s Room by James Baldwin2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker3. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith4. Orlando by Virginia Woolf5. Maurice by E.M

Summer Reading Recommendations – Three from Kim Gragg

A couple months ago, the Library posted a video on our YouTube Channel with staff recommendations for summer reading.  Here\’s the \”why?\” behind some of those recommendations, as well as other books that did not make it into the video.  All are available as e-books in our OverDrive collection. Kimberly Gragg, our Circulation and Interlibrary Loan

Summer Reading Recommendations – Two Audiobooks from Amanda Pape

A couple months ago, the Library posted a video on our YouTube Channel with staff recommendations for summer reading.  Here\’s the \”why?\” behind some of those recommendations, as well as other books that did not make it into the video. Amanda Pape, Coordinator for Archives and Special Services, has a 45-minute one-way commute to the

The Living New Deal

The Living New Deal is a non-profit organization that exists to document all of the public works that were created by various New Deal programs from 1933-43. Several professors at the University of California-Berkeley began this project in 2005 by gathering information on New Deal public works projects in California. In 2010, they expanded and

Summer Reading Recommendations – Two from Tracy Holtman

A couple months ago, the Library posted a video on our YouTube Channel with staff recommendations for summer reading.  Here\’s the \”why?\” behind some of those recommendations, as well as other books that did not make it into the video.  All are available as e-books in our OverDrive collection. Tracy Holtman, our Assistant Director for Collections

Summer Reading Recommendations – Two from Lisa Wan

Recently the Library posted a video on our YouTube Channel with staff recommendations for summer reading.  Here\’s the \”why?\” behind some of those recommendations, as well as for other books that didn\’t make it into the video. Lisa Wan is our Tarleton – Fort Worth Librarian.  Here are her recommendations, both of which are available

More Historical Fiction with Female Characters by Female Authors

In honor of Women\’s History Month, here are more historical fiction books in the library\’s collection that feature female characters or subjects, and are written by female authors: The Dressmaker\’s War begins in 1939, and is about a talented English would-be modiste named Ada who makes some bad choices and is trapped by the Nazis into making

Historical Fiction by Female Authors with Female Characters

In honor of Women\’s History Month, here are some historical fiction books in the library\’s collection that feature female characters or subjects, and are written by female authors: Helen Simonson\’s The Summer Before the War starts in the summer of 1914, when 23-year-old, orphaned Beatrice Nash is hired by the school board of the small