While browsing the interwebs yesterday, we happened across this handy Do-It-Yourself bookshelf that seemed appropriate for our blog. And although we may be biased since we are, well, a library, we thought, "What better way to make a bookshelf than out of magic floating books?"

Turns out the books aren't magic ... at least the ones in this post aren't. But this is nonetheless a cool idea and a fun project. One thing, though, PLEASE don't use library books for this project.

During Laman Library's Summer Reading Program Wednesday morning, Esther Crawford enchanted an audience of children and adults.

But Esther gave the crowd a gift far greater than a few stories -- she reminded us of the importance of story-telling during the malleable years of childhood.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century.

The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairground -- a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.

An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, "Eat, Pray, Love" is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.