Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”? - Yen Pham
AdultsBooksCreativityWritingDig into Toni Morrison’s novel, "Beloved," which tells the story of a family of former slaves whose home is haunted by an abusive spirit.
How To Use Google Books
TeachersBooksEducationTeacher CafeTechnologyWhen students are shown how to use Google Books it can become a valuable search and research tool for them.
Why should you read Flannery O’Connor?
AdultsBooksCreativityLifeFind out why Flannery O’Connor, an American novelist, is known as a master of the grotesque in Southern Gothic literature.
Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? - Iseult Gillespie
AdultsCreativityCultureLifeBooksPsychologyPsychedelicsBy the light of the moon, a group sneaks into the woods, where they take mind-altering substances, switch it up romantically and brush up against creatures from another dimension.
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It's The Best
AdultsArtFilmBooksHarry, Ron and Hermione return as teenagers for a third term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But Harry's fate, and that of the entire community of wizards, looks bleak when the infamous Sirius Black--convicted of abetting evil Lord Voldemort by killing 13 people with a single curse--escapes from prison.
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing - Nadia Kalman
AdultsArtBooksCreativityWritingEducationYou need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story.
The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax
AdultsBooksHistoryLanguageDeep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it's one of history's biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.
LITERATURE - Goethe
AdultsBooksCreativityCultureGoethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention.