See what titles and authors our customers were checking out the most at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library in 2009.

Find out if any of your favorites made the Top 10 list for most popular fiction or non-fiction books at our library.

How many of these popular titles from 2009 have you already read?

Winter is here and it is the perfect time to escape into the warmth of a movie theater--or the warmth of your own home as you read the book that the movie you are going to see is based on. Here is a list, based on information I gleaned from the Give Em What They Want blog and IMDB:

Opening December 25th:

• Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Richie, starring Robert Downey Junior, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams 
  • Based on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Google Books has recently made available full issues of LIFE Magazine from its inception in 1936 to 1972. From the historic first issue featuring the famous cover photo by Margaret Bourke-White up...

This Fall's movie line-up includes such book adaptations as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Informant, Where the Wild Things Are, A Christmas Carol, New Moon, The Road, and The Lovely Bones...to name a few.

Those who would wish to direct readers with a moral reading compass just hate snarky narrators who would rather commit violent drug-fueled crimes or masturbate to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony than...