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  • New Booklist!

    Posted February 26, 2010 in  Books and More
    Nice Doggy! Fun fiction and memoir about the importance of our canine friends.
  • Last Friends book sale of 2009

    Posted December 3, 2009 in  Books and MoreEvents
    The next Friends of the Portage District Library book sale in 2009 is on Saturday, December 5th, from 9 am to 3 pm. Ring in the new year with inexpensive paperbacks and hardcovers from the Friends of the Library. Maybe you’ll find a copy of that book you’d always meant to Continue…
  • Tacos with Joe Schreiber

    Posted October 28, 2009 in  Books and MoreEventsGeneralTeens
    Feel like some horror with your tacos? Join us for Qdoba with author Joe Shreiber on Monday, November 2 at 5:30 pm, and stay for his reading at 6:30 pm if you like. Shreiber has recently released two books, No Doors and No Windows (horror/suspense), and Death Troopers (a Star Wars/Zombie read). Continue…
  • Book Review:  Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    Posted September 29, 2009 in  Books and MoreGeneral
    This is the story of a group of people who grow to know each other following the 2nd World War after a stray used book connects them. Author Juliet Ashton is living in London and suffering from writer’s block when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a farmer in Guernsey. Soon, she and Continue…
  • Book Review:  Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Patillo

    Posted September 9, 2009 in  Books and More
    For all you Jane Austen lovers out there who are searching for your next anglophile fix, this is the book for you. This is a story about Emma, a college professor in the midst of a messy divorce whose credibility has been severely challenged. Our heroine bitterly blames her troubles on Jane Continue…