University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Sweetness Of Water

Despondent, the father begins farming his land with the help of two recently emancipated brothers, one of whom is mute.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Radiant Black

Nathan Burnett isn't exactly successful. He is 30, working two crap jobs and has to move back in with his parents.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Gender Queer

Reading Churchland's book provided great relief to Maia: "I was born this way."

St. Louis County Library: Coronavirus Test Kits Available At 2 County Library Branches

Kits will be available for curbside pick-up at the designated branch. There is a limit of two test kits per person.

2022 Black History Celebration At St. Louis County Library 

St. Louis County Library will host a Black History Celebration in February 2022 with virtual and in-person programming.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Where The Drowned Girls Go

The Whitethorn Institute isn't as kind as Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children. Here everything is about order and control.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: People We Meet On Vacation

It's great to see a friends-to-lovers romance novel, and this one delivers perfectly.

St. Louis County Library's Black History Celebration Presents CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates

The theme for St. Louis County Library’s 2022 Black History Celebration is “Still We Rise with Resilience & Brilliance”.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Bomber Mafia

This one can knock your socks off if you are a war buff, a history buff, an airplane buff, or a strategy buff.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Going There

Her feelings about the various networks, including which networks and programs were best to work for and which were more unwelcoming.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Dare To Know

A breakthrough in particle physics allows mathematicians to predict the exact moment of a person's death with 100% accuracy.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Chilling Effect

This book is pretty much unbridled fun. It reminds me of an old serialized adventure story.

Chance To Win Super Bowl Tickets By Donating Blood: Red Cross

Red Cross blood donors will be entered for a chance to win tickets to the Super Bowl.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Razorblade Tears

This was raw and violent, much like Cosby's previous novel, Blacktop Wasteland.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Gender Queer

This memoir takes us on a journey with the author who is confused by gender and sexuality.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Hogfather

In this book The Auditors have hired assassins to kill the Hogfather, who bears a striking resemblance to Santa Claus.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Fight Night

A lovely book well narrated by the author and another Toews.

St. Louis County Library Ranked 4-Stars By Library Journal

The ranking is based on statistics from 2019, when SLCL circulated over 16 million items.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Flake

Howard has a simple life, selling ice cream from a truck in his "area" that he inherited from his father.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: A Calling For Charlie Barnes

I loved every minute of this book. Nick Offerman does an absolutely fabulous job with the audio.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Ghosts

It's funny, it's full of heart, and it's pretty darn awesome. Highly recommended.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Missing Treasures Of Amy Ashton

Amy Ashton has had a tough 11 years or so. Her boyfriend ran off with her best friend and she has not recovered.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Hand In Glove

Lady Bantling's son Andrew, is trying to coax his guardians, one of whom is Harold, to allow him to buy an art gallery, to no avail.

St. Louis County Library: 2021/2022 Winter Reading Challenge Starts December 1

St. Louis County Library's Winter Reading Challenge kicks off December 1, 2021 and runs through January 31, 2022.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Virgin Suicides

I think this is the crux of every readers problem...quite a backlist of titles that stay on the list.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Feline Philosophy

I think this is trying to say that if you were a cat, you wouldn't need philosophy because the cat just lives its life.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Queen Of The Cicadas

This is a fantastic mash-up of folklore, urban legend, and the foundation of a new feminist religion.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Under The Whispering Door

This book was, in a good way, pretty much exactly what I expected. It was wholesome and engaging, and the pacing felt pretty perfect.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: How To Astronaut

Virts spent an extended period on the space station but that wasn't his only space trip.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Much like Chambers' other novella that I read, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, this novella feels more like an idea than a story.

St. Louis County Library Wins Award From East-West Gateway Council Of Governments

"Together with our community partners, we came up with creative ways to support our community during this crisis".

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Remote Control

Sankofa wanders a near future rural Ghana with the power of death her only companion (aside from a little fox).

Blood Donors Needed In University City Area: Win A Trip To Hawaii

Here's a list of the Red Cross blood drives coming up near you.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Can I Recycle This?

This book is well organized and the illustrations and color coding on the pages help you navigate.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Silenced Women

Mahler's employees, however, aren't quite as sure, and using their various methodology, they're determined to get the right guy.

St. Louis County Library Selected As NASA's My Library Partner

Registration required. Participants will receive Zoom information via email immediately after registering.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: The Midnight Library

Feeling despair after she loses her job and her cat dies, she takes an overdose of medication.

Blood Donors Needed In University City Area: Red Cross Drives Coming Up Soon

The nation is experiencing a severe blood supply shortage.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Revelator

It's 1948, and the best moonshiner in the Smoky Mountains is Stella Wallace.

University City Public Library Book Challenge: Stranger Care

It is hard to fathom how it all works...oh wait, this book gives you a look...it doesn't work all that well.