Monroe Free Library

From filmmaker Patrick Wang comes the story of a community arts center in a small town, told in two films. In part one, after 40 years of running the center, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple come to town and build an enormous complex down the street. Part two revolves around rehearsals for the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists...

"In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational...

"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies...

The location has brought over seven million fans, and the world's biggest musicians, to a patch of rural Washington farmland 150 miles from nowhere. Despite overwhelming odds, a small family winery, with a makeshift plywood stage, eventually became a Pollstar, Billboard, and ACM-winning music venue. It follows the stories of Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, and Pearl Jam (among many other artists), all of whom have legendary pasts at the venue.

When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration of a primate morphing into a proud, upright human being. But in reality, random events have played huge roles in determining the evolutionary histories of everything from lions to lobsters to humans. However, random genetic novelties are most likely to become fixed in small populations. It is mathematically unlikely that...

"Dr. Molly Howes uses her own experiences with patients at her practice to exemplify the importance of a proper apology, and how we can all hone our technique. Learn how to craft an effective apology with this four-step model: 1. Listen to and empathize with the other person's hurt 2. Make a sincere statement of regret and acknowledge harmful actions 3. Make restitution for the pain caused 4. Prevent repetition of the injury An apology is a small-scale...

When the death of a cryptocurrency magnate shakes a small town, Sam Johnstone is thrown into a new and dangerous legal frontier. As changes in Wyoming banking law bring an influx of crypto entrepreneurs to small-town Custer, attorney Sam Johnstone doesn't think much of the new arrivals. But when a shocking crime throws him straight into the epicenter of the digital world, there's no turning back. The death of crypto exchange magnate Max Kovalenko...

In this hilarious illustrated chapter book series, bad guys are doing good deeds... whether you want them to or not! La mala noticia es que el mundo se va a acabar. ¡La buena es que los Tipos Malos están aquí para salvarlo! Puede ser que tengan que "pedir prestado" un cohete, y que haya algo desagradable en uno de los trajes espaciales, y que el Sr. Piraña haya comido demasiaaados burritos. Sobrevivir a esta misión puede ser solo un pequeño...

"Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. Inhis new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges...