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  • A girl in a purple outfit sits on the edge of her balcony looking out to a scene with a shooting star and dinosaurs grazing below.

    Best of Fantastic Fiction: Clever, Quirky Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Fans of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman take note! Dark, clever stories with great characters, compelling plots and a wry appreciation for the weird have been gathered for your consumption.

  • A close up view of a child's hands holding a small colorful globe. The globe is showing the side where Africa is located.

    Celebrate Earth Day: Raising Children to be Environmental Stewards

    This Earth Day take the time to start a conversation about environmental stewardship. Teaching kids about the need to preserve and protect our environment can be a process that is fun and educational for everyone involved.

  • A blue spiral is covered in right-hand prints of varying colors. Colors included are light blue, blue, pink, yellow, green, and red.

    Diversity in Juvenile Fiction

    April is Celebrate Diversity Month, and we’re prepared to do just that with this awesome variety of juvenile fiction titles.

  • A rainy scene is overlapped with the outline of birds on a wire. The birds are made up of musical notes on a music sheet.

    33 Songs About The Rain

    April showers bring May flowers...and apparently a whole lot of musical inspiration too, as heard in these songs about the rain!

  • Black-and-white photo of Babe Ruth from Pixabay.

    Babe Ruth Signed My Baseball!

    Can’t get a ticket for Antiques Roadshow? No problem! Your library has resources to help you identify and value your treasures.

  • Computer-generated advertisement of two planes flying over iconic landmarks from around the world. Beneath them is a spread-out view of the globe showing the various continents.

    Away We Go! Best of Armchair Travel

    Love to travel if only it weren’t for the hassle and the expense? Have we got the books for you!

  • A woman sits in the center of a hammock tied high in a tree. She looks down at the book she is reading, while her hair hides her face. Her left arm has a black tattoo near the top of her shoulder, and behind her is a view of other tall trees and mountains in the distance.

    20 Memoirs to Celebrate Women’s History Month

    This Women’s History Month, get to know some outstanding women by browsing our list of 20 must-read memoirs!

  • A cartoon illustration shows a skeleton holding the head of Shakespeare. The skeleton wears Shakespeare's iconic outfit.

    Theater Nerds Unite

    Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the musical West Side Story by exploring library materials that might be of interest to theater geeks.

  • A toy figurine of Perry the Platypus from Disney's "Phineas and Ferb" stands in a sparkly environment that is the same color as his fur.

    Mission Accomplished: True Stories of Great Spies and Spycraft

    With any spy story, there’s something compellingly magical about people sneaking around and getting away with it, but the best spy stories are the ones that really happened.

  • A collaged avertisement of the digitized versions of the Toledo Jewish News logo and three of their papers over the year. TJN Collage2 resized

    Toledo Jewish News is Now Online!

    Learn more about Jewish history in the Toledo area by exploring our newly updated Digital Collections of Northwest Ohio, which now includes the Toledo Jewish News.

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