CALS Blogs

Staff Pick: Nathan James

Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park When You’re 29 and Unemployed  by Aneurin Wright

Most folks think of superheroes and fantastic tales when they think of graphic novels,


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Six Bridges Book Festival: Mayra Cuevas

Romance Smolders for Latina Aspiring Chef in YA debut Salty, Bitter, Sweet

Author Mayra Cuevas believes in the power of joyful stories.

As a teenager in Puerto Rico,


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Book Boyfriend Battle

He’s thoughtful. He’s hot. He takes out the trash without being asked. Clearly, this dream guy doesn’t exist…except in books. We’ve rounded up some of the best book boyfriends in the library and we want you to choose a winner.


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Six Bridges Book Festival: Rob Hart

Visionary Thriller The Warehouse Warns that Dystopia Looms Near

Rob Hart was already a successful author when he began work on his latest novel, The Warehouse.


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Six Bridges Book Festival Announces 2020 Lineup

CALS presents a stellar line-up for the seventeenth annual celebration of the written word

Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) presents the seventeenth annual Six Bridges Book Festival, April 23-26.


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Staff Pick: Heather Zbinden

I’m a public historian who got so obsessed with yarn and knitting that I owned a yarn shop. I love grand history and pretty dresses. I’m addicted to TV and love to binge everything from Nordic Noir mysteries to anything British to Hallmark Christmas movies.


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