I love book tours. I love book tours like some people love March Madness and the World Series. Book tours connect readers and writers for the second time. The reunion of writer and reader reminds...
Civic Center Library
Welcome to the next installment of the Marin City Webstar library profile tour.  This stop, is located in a true historical monument of Marin, the Civic Center.  The Civic Center branch is...
Marin City Staff Picks
If your visiting the Marin City Library, come and take at look at our new "staff picks" display. We hope that you will be delighted with the books and movies that the friendly staff here...
A mixed bag this round: a cockamamie film, a cockamamie marriage, a mystery set in the wilds of Arizona, and (after all that), a book that takes a thoughtful look at the nature of faith when the...
BEST NEW MYSTERIES The editors of Booklist magazine, a publication of the American Library Association, pick the best new mysteries.Broken HarborBy Tana French
Irish cop Mick "Scorcher...
via Time Picture an ambitious, yet conflicted Columbia graduate. At twenty-two, the clarity and rigor of campus life has faded, and in its place, a cruel dispersion of meaning that is--adult...
nyan cat
Three different people recommended this meme to me in a span of a week. Does it say something about me? About them? About us? Does the spread of memes or popular Internet content matter?...
Revenge of the Electric Car is a documentary about the resurgence of the electric vehicle in the world marketplace.  It is the sequel to Who Killed the Electric Car?, which documented the...
New book reviewed on NPR - Fresh AirDrift: The Unmooring Of American Military Powerby Rachel MaddowIn her new book, Drift: the Unmooring of American Military Power,  Rachel Maddow,  ...
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
New book reviewed on NPR - Fresh AirLots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna QuindlenAnna Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose new memoir, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, explores her...