Parkersburg & Wood County Public Library
Connecting Community – Broadening Horizons
Ever since the dawn of the silver screen, film and books have been inextricably linked. Early, grainy film adaptations of horror classics like Dracula and Frankenstein, paved the way for blockbuster Hollywood classics also based on novels: The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, and Mary Poppins, to name a few. Now, the 2016…
Check out our library book totes, reading-themed insulated drink bottles, and our library cookbook! On sale now at reasonable prices.
Our Williamstown Branch Manager, Nancy Morehead is featured on the front page of today’s “Parkersburg News & Sentinel.” Congratulations, Nancy, on a job well done! Our thanks to the newspaper for the excellent article and beautiful photos!
Maeve Binchy, a true Irish storyteller, had her name at the top of Britain’s most popular writers list and the New York Times Best Seller’s List. Binchy’s novels touch on issues such as parent-child relationships and the illusion of love. Her novels do not focus entirely on sex, but their appeal, instead, stems from the…
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You read it right! Just picture it… you’re in the stacks perusing some books and you pull something that catches your eye. You start to look through and have this thought in your mind like, “Really? Is this really a book that people read?” Well, there is a blog dedicated to these types of…
Anne Rivers Siddons, born 1936, graduate of Auburn University, started her career off as – what people may call, a free minded writer. She knew she was meant to be a writer when she was fired for her powerful articles in an Alabama Newspaper in which gained national attention. It was her articles like these…
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Monday 11 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday 11 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday 11 am - 5:30 pm
Friday 11 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday Closed
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