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Join In the Fun! March Matchness Food & Fund Drive

Get ready to have fun and make an amazing local impact with this year's MARCH MATCHNESS food drive competition, running from March 9-27!
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Recipe Club and Potluck: February 2026

From decadent peanut butter cup cheesecake to cozy vegetable casserole and nacho dip, our foodie friends from this month's Recipe Club & Potluck program brought wonderful recipes to share!

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Winter Resource Spotlight: Kanopy Video Streaming!

From fairy tales to rom-coms, documentaries, dramas, horror, and more, Kanopy Video Streaming is an online resource with a huge variety of films-- and you can access them anytime, for free, with your Cromaine Library card!

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Book cover for "Crave, Cook, Nourish"

Crave, Cook, Nourish

Develop a healthier, happier relationship with food by tapping into these 80-plus nourishing recipes with zero intimidation factor from dietitian, nutrition expert, and TikTok sensation Steph Grasso Dietitian.

The internet is filled with diet fads and nutrition misinformation, and registered dietitian Steph Grasso is here to steer you clear of all of it. In her debut cookbook and nutrition go-to, Steph debunks diet culture and offers up fun and easy ways to make healthy, accessible, and affordable food choices. Crave, Cook, Nourish subscribes to the notion that all bites are good bites when balanced: Why restrict your favorite foods when you can simply add more nutrients to your plate?

Steph lays out the basic building blocks of nutrition so you can make healthful choices with ease. Starting with a brief history of diet culture, Crave, Cook, Nourish is packed with tips and hacks to make grocery shopping and meal prep feel like second nature. Included in the book are more than 80 of Steph's delicious, nutrient-packed, and easy-to-make recipes such as:

  • Viral favorites like Lemony Salmon Orzo and Crack-an-Egg Cups
  • Morning sweet tooth treats like Pumpkin Protein Pancakes with Cinnamony Yogurt and Crispy Banana-Berry Waffle Parfait
  • Balanced snacks to get you through your day like On-the-Go Trail Mix and Bento Box Adult Snack Packers
  • Nourishing mains and sides you'll crave again and again like Cheesy Kielbasa Skillet and Spinach & Artichoke Orzo
  • Doctored-up classics like Gardened-Up Frozen Pizza and Chicken Nugget Veggie Power Wrap


Whether you have a super busy schedule or limited funds, Steph is here to show you how to make easy and attainable healthy lifestyle choices in your own kitchen. Life is hard, and Steph believes that eating a tasty, balanced meal and feeling your best absolutely should not be.

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Needle Lake

Two cousins on very different sides of teen girlhood spend a winter together that changes both of their lives forever.

“A searing, unforgettable novel that captures the intense and dangerous alchemy of girlhood.”—Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman

And once, after Elna came to stay, I watched a man drown there on Christmas Eve, his body trapped beneath the ice.

Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart. Forbidden from most physical activities and considered strange by her teachers and peers, she prefers spending time alone, memorizing countries and capitals on her globe and imagining the world outside the tiny logging town of Mineral, Washington.

One afternoon, in walks her cousin Elna, there to stay for a few weeks. Ida hasn’t seen Elna since they were children, and she’s immediately drawn to her older cousin, who’s everything Ida is not: confident, glamorous, charismatic, and daring. Elna lives in San Francisco, a city Ida has seen only as a dot on her globe. She doesn’t treat Ida like she’s a fragile kid whose heart might give out at any moment. She isn’t scared off by Ida’s quirks and fixations. Ida is enraptured.

Then, on Christmas Eve, a man dies out in the woods near Mineral, and the two cousins suddenly share a secret beyond the scope of anything Ida has dealt with before. Fear begins to mix with the reverence Ida feels toward her cousin, especially when she discovers Elna is hiding more than she ever suspected. Brimming with lush prose and careful observation, Needle Lake is an arresting portrait of girlhood and the overwhelming, sometimes dangerous intensity of adolescence.

Book cover for "Dare to Think Differently"

Dare to Think Differently

A Harvard Business School professor's guide to thinking about thinking, using the creative power of the unconscious.

Gerald Zaltman's pioneering research methods for understanding the unconscious desires of customers are used by companies around the world. Dare to Think Differently draws on the same groundbreaking methods to explain the deep and innovative thinking used by highly successful executives. Reflecting emerging viewpoints in neuroscience, Zaltman contends that multiple forces, not just a brain, collaborate to produce a mind. Highly effective decision-makers are able and willing to go beyond their conscious thinking and surface powerful, creative, unconscious thoughts and feelings. They candidly ask whether what they feel they "know" is actually warranted, opening their minds to new alternatives.

With this book, Zaltman presents six techniques to tap into the creative power of the unconscious: serious playfulness, befriending ignorance, asking the right discovery questions, chasing your curiosity, panoramic thinking, and using the "voyager outlook." These research-based techniques improve decision-making and go beyond the existing literature on "thinking smarter." This book's insights emerge from a large number of one-on-one in-depth interviews with senior leaders around the globe, reinforced with research findings from scientific literatures.

Mirroring Zaltman's Harvard Business School classroom practice, each chapter opens with a practical-thinking exercise that helps readers surface the mental processes and biases that unconsciously close minds and constrict thinking. This creative surfacing is the crucial foundation for any leader operating in a complex, uncertain environment, who needs unconventional solutions to challenging problems.

Book cover for "I Told You So!"

I Told You So!

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted—from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.

For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He’s seen breakthroughs often occur in spite of, rather than because of, the behavior of the research community, and how support can be withheld for those who don’t conform or have the right connections. In this passionately argued and entertaining book, Kaplan narrates the history of the 19th century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, who realized that Childbed fever—a devastating infection that only struck women who had recently given birth—was spread by doctors not washing their hands. Semmelweis was met with overwhelming hostility by those offended at the notion that doctors were at fault, and is a prime example of how the scientific community often fights new ideas, even when the facts are staring them in the face.

In entertaining prose, Kaplan reveals scientific cases past and present to make his case. Some are familiar, like Galileo being threatened with torture and Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó being fired when on the brink of discovering how to wield mRNA–a finding that proved pivotal for the creation of the Covid-19 vaccine. Others less so, like researchers silenced for raising safety concerns about new drugs, and biologists ridiculed for revealing major flaws in the way rodent research is conducted. Kaplan shows how the scientific community can work faster and better by making reasonably small changes to the forces that shape it.