HCPL Blog

Shark Week is wrapping up, so let’s learn about and celebrate these awesome creatures! Sharks are incredibly important to the ocean ecosystem, but are often depicted as monsters, although they are not that much different from other types of fish.

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True Crime is one of my favorite nonfiction subjects, because I am fascinated by the psychology of serial killers.  The classic novel

What draws you into a story may be a little different than what pulls me in, but I think we can all agree that we want something intriguing that really grabs our interest.  Reading real life biographies and memoirs can be very attention grabbing because it is not just a fiction

Have you ever wondered what your top anime characters might read if they were real, live, human beings? Today, we are going to find out just that! We are starting with the notorious BIG 3 from UA high; the top students in terms of strength in the anime/manga My Hero Academia.

Harris County Public Library’s popular end-of-summer virtual book festival will feature in-person author talks for the first time and will go year-round with Authorama365 

The third part in our series focuses on the services that our Digital Media Labs (DML) offer!

We’ve all done it—passed by a book in a store or library and completely overlooked it due to its unsightly cover. Or perhaps it’s the alternative, buying a book solely because of how attractive the cover looks regardless of what content lies within.