Diana Guthrie - Director, Pleasanton Public Library
Your oldest daughter, a sixteen-year-old beauty, is missing. Your husband has killed himself out of grief. Your younger daughter is screaming silently for the childhood she was never allowed to experience and the mother who has been absen More...
Diana Guthrie Director - Pleasanton Public Library
Patricia Cornwell began her brilliant writing career with the novel, Post Mortem. This is the first of 19 novels dealing with the life and loves of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. She is the meticulous, overly cautious and a little parano More...
Diana Guthrie Director - Pleasanton Public Library
There are voices in our lives that calm us, give us solace, warm us, make us smile, make us feel safe. Voices of loved ones, of course; your mother whispering your name, your spouse proclaiming love, your child’s laughter. More...
By Diana Gutherie Director, Pleasanton Public Library dguthrie405@att.net
I’ve followed the Pleasanton Express since the 1970s (now that’s scary), watching them grow and expand in so many ways. And now they are going to take this huge step into the great digital divide! More...
Diana Guthrie, Director - Pleasanton Public Library
I am a self-professed Anglophile and fiercely proud of it. I love English movies, English music, English accents, but not particularly English food. Love English literature, though. I will wade through the quicksand that can be D. More...
Diana Guthrie, Director - Pleasanton Public Library
Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes, whether they have ever read a word of Arthur Conan Doyle’s. Everyone knows he’s a smartie (hence the term, “No s*^t Sherlock!”) and through the new movies, they think he is also a man of action. More...
Diana Guthrie Director - Pleasanton Public Library
Hieronymus Bosch was an early Renaissance Dutch painter, best known for his fantastical interpretations of the Bible and morality tales. You’ve probably seen some of his work, very stylized, treading between dream and nightmare. One of th More...
Diana Guthrie Director - Pleasanton Public Library
“I am Woman. Hear me roar,” was the battle cry for a generation of women (and some of their mothers!) in 1975. Oddly, this song, made famous by Helen Reddy, was written by two men! More...
