NPL’s Most Popular Books of the 2010s

Leading up to the New Year, NPL staff created a series of videos highlighting Newton’s highest-circulating books since 2010. You can find those videos on our Facebook page. Would you like to borrow these books in the new decade? Refer to the lists below. Each title is hyperlinked directly to our online catalog, where you…
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Library discussion series will explore ‘Ghost Stories’

This winter, Newton Public Library is offering a three-part TALK (Talk About Literature in Kansas) discussion series exploring tales of the uncanny: “Ghost Stories.” Ghost stories arouse the same emotion that draws readers to mystery fiction: the desire to solve the problem of the past. Ghost stories try to explain what death is, where loved…
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Learn about the Fold3 database, tonight at NPL

From Sam Jack, sjack@newtonplks.org Last month, genealogist and local history researcher Darren McMannis gave an engaging program about travel accidents in Harvey County, “Roadside Crosses”. This evening at 7 p.m., Darren will be back to present “Unfolding the Fold3 Database.” Available free to all Kansas residents, Fold3 is an online database of more than 600…
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How to read (or not read) ‘Moby-Dick’

By Sam Jack – sjack@newtonplks.org Over the decades, millions of American high school students have been assigned to read Herman Melville’s 1851 whaling epic, Moby-Dick. The result? In 2019 – 200 years after Melville’s birth – millions of Americans have come to know and detest Moby-Dick. Few high-school students are going to enjoy reading (and…
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