LGBT Pride Month : Movie Recommendations
Celebrate LGBT Pride Month with these fabulous materials from Milwaukee Public Library!
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This Day in Cheese History: Roquefort Monopoly
Did you know that Roquefort cheese is a term protected by European law? The famous sheep's milk cheese, with its green mold veins and tangy taste, can only be called Roquefort cheese if it's aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. This is in part due to an event 603 years ago to this day, when King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly…
Read moreDon't miss this scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis.
In his last book, Griftopia, Matt Taibbi detailed the multiple ways the financial sector has manipulated the economy for its own profit. This resulted in the fleecing of ordinary Americans in ways they might never have realized. Such unregulated behavior has only served to widen the gap between the rich and poor. In his new book, The Divide, Taibbi explores what this widening means. He discusses…
Read moreStreaming Video from Your MPL!
Nothing on TV but Summer reruns? MPL is lending streaming video through the Overdrive app!
Read moreDan Slott's She-Hulk: The Complete Collection
Jennifer Walters, who became The She-Hulk after a blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner (The Incredible Hulk himself), finds herself in a bit of a quandary and is forced to put away the purple spandex and instead don a suit and glasses to fight criminals in the courtroom, not with her fists. It sounds a bit like Ally McBeal on super-powered steroids, but I…
Read moreExplore Milwaukee Historic Photos @ MPL!
Did you know that the Humanities Room at Central Library is home to thousands of historic photographs of Milwaukee in the Historic Photo Collection? The image above is just one example. It captures a moment from the 4th of July celebrations at Lake Park in 1918. Members of the Ladies Home Defense group can be seen marching in the center of the field. A selection of…
Read moreNon-fiction suggestions from Tippecanoe that you don't want to miss!
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum A fascinating and suspenseful account of America’s slide into World War I while still ostensibly neutral, and the German attempt to pre-empt the conflict by setting up a spy network in the United States. German agents pursued an agenda of sabotage and terrorism aimed at weakening…
Read moreThe Weirdness is, well, weird.
Good weird. Funny weird. Captivating weird. It’s like the literary equivalent of an Adam Sandler movie penned by Mark Twain. Sort of a concoction between Twain’s Letters From the Earth and Sandler’s Little Nicky. Billy Ridgeway wakes up after a bender to find great smelling coffee brewing in the kitchen and Lucifer Morningstar (Satan) sitting in his living room. Hangover central. The Weirdness just gets weirder…
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