Are You Ready for the Houston Cinema Arts Festival? Nov. 9-17, Get Tickets Now!

Although many of its regular venues have been damaged or destroyed by the hurricane, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival will … More

Kanopy comes to HCPL: Free Access to a Huge Collection of Documentaries, Foreign and Classic Films

Have you heard of Kanopy? It’s a film streaming site that began in Australia in 2008 and shares over 26,000 … More

One of the joys of being a librarian is having access to an enormous quantity and variety of material. Every … More

Focused on 5th-8th Graders, Tweens Read is an annual celebration of reading. Hosted by the Blue Willow Bookshop, this event … More

Director Noah Baumbach moves a step away from the failed romance at the center of The Squid and the Whale … More

Authors, illustrators, publishers, and book distribution centers have banned together to create an efficient way to get new materials to … More

FIRST TRAILER FOR GRETA GERWIG’S LADY BIRD. THE FILM WILL NEXT SCREEN AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THIS FRIDAY. … More

We are still feeling rain fall here in Houston, but it is slow enough now that we are beginning to … More

Author and Illustrator Noelle Stevenson has succeeded at the complex feat of creating a story that is at once familiar … More

*Each week in the month of August I'll feature one children's book about Hurricane Katrina.* ~Rebuild~Remember~ The paintings are the … More