{span style=”background-color: #ffffff;”}“To accept one’s past — one’s history — is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.” This quote is among the many outstanding observations in James Baldwin’s seminal text “The Fire Next Time.” And while it’s possible to drow…
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“It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.” A beginning many people can relate to right now.
Frederick County Public Libraries will begin a phased reopening on June 1 as the county begins to lift restrictions.
Some books are seeing a second life as many people remain cooped up indoors.
It was an afternoon of quiet reading, reassurances and belly rubs at Urbana Regional Library Sunday.
For one day this spring, visitors to the C. Burr Artz branch of Frederick County Public Libraries will be able to check out a person and learn…
“It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.” A beginning many people can relate to right now.
Frederick County Public Libraries will begin a phased reopening on June 1 as the county begins to lift restrictions.
Some books are seeing a second life as many people remain cooped up indoors.
It was an afternoon of quiet reading, reassurances and belly rubs at Urbana Regional Library Sunday.
For one day this spring, visitors to the C. Burr Artz branch of Frederick County Public Libraries will be able to check out a person and learn from them.
Jonathan Rée has written a different kind of book with “Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy into English.”
NEW YORK — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the wo…
The county could soon reach a goal of 500,000 minutes of reading time.
Author Jenni Williams has always loved dogs but for a long time never owned a pooch herself. That all changed when she fostered her first dog.
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hal…
The first thing to come on is the classical music. It sets the mood, he says. It’s nice background music that doesn’t interfere with your thoughts.
Anne Kemp is feeling romantic this holiday season as she’s one of 11 authors who are part of the ebook box set “Romancing the Holidays.”
Jonathan Rée has written a different kind of book with “Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy into English.”
NEW YORK — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the wo…
The county could soon reach a goal of 500,000 minutes of reading time.
Author Jenni Williams has always loved dogs but for a long time never owned a pooch herself. That all changed when she fostered her first dog.
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hal…
The first thing to come on is the classical music. It sets the mood, he says. It’s nice background music that doesn’t interfere with your thoughts.
Anne Kemp is feeling romantic this holiday season as she’s one of 11 authors who are part of the ebook box set “Romancing the Holidays.”
Frederick author Reiner Prochaska combines World War II history, intrigue, action and romance in his novel “Captives.”
Frederick author Reiner Prochaska combines World War II history, intrigue, action and romance in his novel “Captives.”
Noel Ignatiev, a onetime factory worker who became a Harvard-trained scholar and advocate of eliminating what he considered arbitrary racial c…
Elizabeth Knapp, an associate professor of English at Hood College, won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Requiem …
Most people know Meg Tilly as the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress in 1985’s “Agnes of God.”
The Frederick County Public Libraries will no longer charge overdue fees on children’s materials, starting Oct. 1.
James Geary’s “Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works and Why We Need It” is a multifaceted work that explores an ill-defined but instantly reco…
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solo…
Magic Warfield posed for a photo Tuesday afternoon with an orange Popsicle in one hand and a bright red card in the other.
The only thing better than a good read is a good summer read, in my opinion.
SAN DIEGO — “Game of Thrones” may be over but the cast can’t seem to get away from stray coffee cups.
Elizabeth Knapp, an associate professor of English at Hood College, won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Requiem …
Most people know Meg Tilly as the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress in 1985’s “Agnes of God.”
The Frederick County Public Libraries will no longer charge overdue fees on children’s materials, starting Oct. 1.
James Geary’s “Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works and Why We Need It” is a multifaceted work that explores an ill-defined but instantly reco…
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solo…
Magic Warfield posed for a photo Tuesday afternoon with an orange Popsicle in one hand and a bright red card in the other.
The only thing better than a good read is a good summer read, in my opinion.
SAN DIEGO — “Game of Thrones” may be over but the cast can’t seem to get away from stray coffee cups.
ROME — Author Andrea Camilleri, creator of the best-selling Commissario Montalbano series about a likable, though oft-brooding small-town Sici…
Have you ever wondered what a library director does? Or is that just me? Well if you ever wondered, keep reading because last week I spent an …
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At this time public comments will be accepted via email at: CouncilMembers@FrederickCountyMD…
Journey through Frederick’s gruesome and bloody past. Nearly 300 years of war, executions an…
Tour includes intriguing facts about the cemetery’s origin, tombstone design, grave robbing,…
New event. Games, activities, buffet and carnival food, bingo, raffles, beer garden, enterta…
A boutique or "date night" experience including local wines, flowers, artisan cheeses, baked…
New event. Games, activities, buffet and carnival food, bingo, raffles, beer garden, enterta…
Journey through Frederick’s gruesome and bloody past. Nearly 300 years of war, executions an…
Presented by the Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club. In-person event canceled. Instead, r…
New event. Games, activities, buffet and carnival food, bingo, raffles, beer garden, enterta…
Journey through Frederick’s gruesome and bloody past. Nearly 300 years of war, executions an…
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