by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 15, 2024 | Music Review, Staff Picks, Staff Review
As someone who listens to fast, in your face music, there are times where you need an album to put you in a calm, easygoing mood. Worse for the Wear by The New Amsterdams is that album for me. The album is full of lively anthems, twangy banjoes and all in all good...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 8, 2024 | Music Review, Staff Picks, Staff Review
Lifetime’s : Lifetime (2007) Lifetime’s self title has been in constatant rotation of one of my favorite albums since the first time I’ve heard it. One of the most underrated melodic hardore records ever, this album is full of fun tunes, good times...
by envisionmg | Feb 2, 2023 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Sci - Fi, Staff Picks
This Bookshelf does not existFebruary is Black History Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in...
by envisionmg | Nov 17, 2022 | Children's Literature, Discovery List, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Romance, Staff Picks, YA, YA Fiction
November is Native American Heritage Month. The National Congress of American Indians tells us: [t]he month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Heritage Month is...
by envisionmg | Apr 8, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry Collections, Staff Picks
April is poetry month so we thought we’d share some of our favorite poems and poetry collections. Poetry Collections Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver. Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio. If Not, Winter:...
by envisionmg | Dec 20, 2021 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
“Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life....