Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and James (Percival Everett) Huck Finn, published in 1885, follows the adventures of the title character on the Mississippi River of the antebellum South. Criticized for its use of coarse language and racial epithets upon its release, it has since earned the reputation of a satire of…
The Kearny Public Library is partnering with the Kearny Museum to present what is intended to become an annual event—the Kearnian Art Show. Conceived by Erin Martins and the Kearny Museum Committee, the exhibition will showcase artwork created by members of the local community. Initial concerns about attracting sufficient interest from local artists were…
In thinking of a good Winter read, the first novel that comes to mind is "The Snow Child," the debut book by Eowyn Ivey, published back in 2012. This title was a major hit back in 2012, easily garnering best seller status, and eventually becoming a finalist for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and a winner…
Here at the Kearny Library, we are very much into revisiting some Fiction classics. In an attempt to hit some genres that I don’t normally read, I decided to tackle ‘Riders of the Purple Sage’, one of the most famous novels of the Western genre written more than 100 years ago, in 1912,…