Have you heard about TED, the nonprofit, global phenomenon devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading? Its goal is to make great ideas accessible
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Love being first to know about a great new find, an undiscovered treasure? Are you the kind of reader who goes through
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New York Times best selling author, Jessica Lahey will be at Barrington High School on March 7th to discuss her book, The Gift
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It’s no secret that Barrington is full of amazing authors and storytellers. From novelists to poets to historians, many Barrington area authors
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It’s been way too long since I’ve written a Books & Beyond post on behalf of the Barrington Area Library! Since we
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When I knew the library was going to be taking over 365 Barrington for a few days, I kept trying to think
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When I am out and about in the community, I’m occasionally stunned (maybe depressed is a better word) by what people don’t
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I’ll never forget the night before our new Youth Services department opened. Everybody on the staff wanted to play with the giant
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We know there was a time when you thought the Barrington Area Library’s renovation project was never going to end. I even
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Summer reading clubs at public libraries are nothing new. Children, teens, and even adults register for the programs, log in the books
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We’ll be chatting live via Skype with Rachel Joyce, the author of international bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, in the
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I started re-reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry this week to prepare for our upcoming interview with the book’s author, Rachel
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When the Barrington Area Library asked me last fall if I would interview the author of this year’s fiction selection for their
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Rem Stokes knows that talking about money makes most of us a little uncomfortable, but he argues the reward is well worth
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Barrington’s annual community reading campaign, Barrington Reads, is coming up this February featuring two books – one fiction and one non-fiction. Both
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