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¡Hispanic Heritage Month 2014!

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month, starting TODAY through October 15th! Now@MPL will be spending the next month celebrating the many great contributions Latinos have made to the Milwaukee area!  

Since You've Been Gone & On the Fence

If you've ever had a friend leave you without warning or found yourself in over your head as a result of telling too many lies...you'll relate to these new young adult fiction selections.

Hysteria: A Collection of Madness by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Wow, I’d love to have a serious conversation with poet Stephanie M. Wytovich about, say, the horror of Shirley Jackson or disfigurement in the stories of Flannery O’Connor while we sip burgundy from huge gold goblets as a candelabra supplies superficial light and shadow. 

Henry David Thoreau - Plaque Dedication in Milwaukee 9/27

On June 27th 1861, Henry David Thoreau and his traveling companion, Horace Mann, Jr., arrived in Milwaukee by train. They stayed one night at the Lake House Hotel on Ferry and Lake Streets, site of today's Colectivo Coffee.    

I Don't Care If We Never Get Back

Thirty games in thirty days on the best worst baseball road trip ever.

Around the Corner with John McGivern

"Around the Corner" host John McGivern will share his experiences growing up on Milwaukee's east side, his memories of the Milwaukee Public Library, and reveal the origins of his popular "Around the Corner" program on PBS and its evolution.

Super Flats @ The Bay View Bash

Canada Declares War!

It was 75 years ago today when Canada officially declared war upon Nazi Germany to join the United Kingdom and France in World War II.