Recycled Reads Gift Book Sales

The East Baton Rouge Parish Library sells gently used books, DVDs, CDs, LPs and more every month in its Recycle Reads Gift Books Sale. 

Recycled Reads contains all kinds of books for sale - fiction, cookbooks, textbooks, history, travel, art, crafts, children's and many more. Books are priced at $1 for hardbacks, larger-format paperbacks, DVDs, and audiobooks, and 25 cents for pocket paperbacks. Sales will be cash only. All sale items are gifts that the Library does not require to add to its collection, therefore, the items are shared with patrons. Proceeds of the sale go to the Patrons of the Public Library, the Library's friends group. The Patrons of the Public Library help in funding children's programming during the summer and throughout the year, such as the Author/Illustrator Program and other programs designed for the community.

The sales take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the downtown library, 3434 North Blvd. in Baton Rouge, on the following dates:

• April 27
• May 25
• June 29
• July 27
• Aug. 31
• Sept. 28
• Oct. 26

For more information, visit www.ebrpl.com.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.

Four South Louisiana authors to discuss “Things That Go Bump in the Night” at the Main Baton Rouge Library

Four Louisiana authors — Diana Rowland, Em Shotwell, Eden Butler and Cherie Claire — will discuss how magic, monsters and myths inspire their storytelling with “Things That Go Bump in the Night: Magic and Monsters in the Deep South” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, 2019, at the Main Library at Goodwood in Baton Rouge. From folklore to local legend, to modern creations, the authors will elaborate on their work and then offer a question and answer period. Books from all four authors will be on sale through Conundrum Books of St. Francisville and available for signing.

The authors are:

Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy writer and is best known for her Kara Gillian series and White Trash Zombie series. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator and a morgue assistant.

Em Shotwell is the author of “Blackbird Summer,” “Blackbird Falling” and “The Chans” (short story, part of the “Blackbird” series) and the “Enchanted” series. Shotwell thinks the most interesting characters are the ones who live on the sidelines, and that small towns often hide the biggest secrets.

Eden Butler is an editor and writer of fantasy, mystery and contemporary romance novels and the nine-times great-granddaughter of an English pirate. When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden patiently waits for her Hogwarts letter, edits, reads and spends way too much time watching rugby, “Doctor Who” and New Orleans Saints football.

Cherie Claire is the author of the Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series set in South Louisiana and “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” (The History Press) under her real name of Cheré Coen. Needless to say she enjoys a good ghost story, in addition to other supernatural elements.

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The East Baton Rouge Parish Library event is free and open to the public.

Baton Rouge's One Book events continue

The East Baton Rouge Parish Library kicked off this year’s One Book One Community (OBOC) season celebrating “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with an after-hours street party last month. Partygoers braved the “London-style” rainy and overcast weather to release the hounds with food, games and prizes, music performed by street violinists Wael and Anna, plus area groups including the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, the Capital Area Beekeepers Association (CABA), Opioid Prevention Alliance for Ladies & Girls (OPAL), Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS) and more.

The fun isn’t over, and the calendar is full of free programs and events, including book discussions, movie screenings, escape rooms and a host of other exciting happenings. To see a full schedule, visit www.ReadOneBook.org.

Here’s what’s coming up in March:

Wael and Anna

Forum 35’s Holmes Trivia Night at the Londoner Restaurant

5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 4215 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd.

For more information, contact Chris Simoneaux at chris@forum35.org

Victorian Steampunk Tea featuring Red Stick Spice Co.

2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, Main Library at Goodwood

Claire Carter, Bone Detective with Author Mary Manhein

3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, Main Library at Goodwood

Copies of Mary Manhein’s books will be available for purchase at the program.

Lady Sherlock: A Study in Scarlet Women with Author Sherry Thomas

7 p.m. Saturday, March 16, Main Library at Goodwood

Copies of Thomas’s books will be available for purchase at the program.

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes with LSU’s Dr. Kris Mecholsky

3 p.m. Sunday, March 24, Main Library at Goodwood

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For more information about any of these OBOC programs happening at the Library, call (225) 231-3750. Visit www.ReadOneBook.orgfor more details on the reading program. Learn more about the Library and any of its other free programs, events and resources by going online to www.ebrpl.com.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.

Baton Rouge Library artifacts now available online

I'm going to post this under Hot New Things Happening at the Library!

More than 200 artifacts from the Special Collections Department of East Baton Rouge Parish Library can now be viewed online on Google Arts and Culture due to a new partnership between Google and the Library. Users will be able to see historic photographs, ephemera and many other treasures of the Library by visiting this site. 

Specially curated virtual exhibits have been developed for online visitors who can discover an interactive exhibit, curated by experts in the Special Collections Department at EBRPL. 

Some of the most important items of the online exhibition are:

Local African-American activists’ attempts to integrate the City Park swimming pool in 1963. 

An oral history with African-American activist and Metro Councilwoman Pearl George recorded by the YWCA in 1983.

Images courtesy of The Advocate newspaper/Capital City Press.

Photographs from the Baton Rouge Room vertical file making their digital debut.

For more information about this new partnership between EBRPL and Google Arts and Culture, call the Special Collections Department at (225) 231-3752. To learn more about the Library and any of its free programs, events and resources, go online to www.ebrpl.com.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.