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Staff Picks: New Year’s Resolutions

Ambition is contagious on New Year’s Day.  After a long year of successes and challenges, most of us make promises–resolutions that we will accomplish more, quit our vices, and be better versions of ourselves. According to bizjournals.com, only 8% of people who make resolutions actually succeed at keeping them.  Rather than […]

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In the News: Penn Area Library kicks off Winter Reading Club

The snow is falling and the books are calling at the Penn Area Library, whose Winter Reading Club kicked off during last week’s winter solstice and will continue through the spring equinox on March 20.  Read more at TribLive.com.

WLN's Top Nonfiction of 2017

WLN’s Top Nonfiction of 2017

Throughout December, we are highlighting the books that Westmoreland County read the most in 2017.  Check out our Top Ten Fiction list, and stay tuned for the Top Ten Young Adult titles. What do a home design power couple, the FBI, Sherlock Holmes have in common?  They’re all subjects of […]

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WLN's Top Fiction of 2017

WLN’s Top Fiction of 2017

If you’re anything like me, you love the annual round-ups of the best books of the year.  I spend hours crawling through NPR’s Book Concierge, Goodread’s Best Books of 2017, and Library Journal’s Top Ten Best Books of the Year and watch my to-read pile grow exponentially.  Going through all […]

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