December 2009
The Road Less Traveled . . . Connecting the Dots . . . A Visit from St. Nicholas . . . Willing to Serve . . . War, Illustrated

November 2009
Chant Like an Egyptian . . . Drawing the Line . . . Mothers of Invention . . . A Garden in Your Pocket . . . I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy

October 2009
Why Can't the English? . . . They Also Served . . . A Spirited Story . . . Baseball Americana . . . A Riotous Rond de Jambe

September 2009
Whittle While You Work . . . Oh, What a Tangled Web . . . The Exquisite Corpse Adventure . . . El Grito de Dolores . . . The Library Accepts Your Friend Request

August 2009
Let's Get Serial . . . Postcards from the Edge . . . A Chapter a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay . . . Head of the Class . . . Projecting the Environment . . . The Dog Days of Summer . . . You've Heard of Timbuktu, But Do You Know Where It Is?

July 2009
The Son of Scotland . . . Justice is Served . . . Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Means You're Grand . . . A Bird's-Eye View . . . The Art of the Steal . . . It's Curtains for Tony and Maria . . . Who Was “Lady Lindy?”

June 2009
Rare Finds for Rare Book . . . All Hail the Hole-some Treat . . . Capturing a War . . . How Fortune-ate . . . Let Me See Some I.D. . . . You're a Grand Ole Flag . . . She Works Hard for the Money [and So Does He]

May 2009
It's (Not) a Small World After All . . . Message in a Bottle . . . An Architecture of Plurality . . . Linked By Law . . . Totally YouTubular . . . Languages on Loan . . . What Started as a Haven . . . Became a Home

April 2009
Is a Coconut a Fruit, Nut or Seed? . . . An Elemental Space . . . Lunchtime Lines . . . “S’Wonderful, S’Marvelous” . . . “Get To The Choppa!” . . . Visions of Poets . . . America’s Pastime at America’s Library

March 2009
Music and the Brain . . . With Malice Toward None . . . Walloons and Wallets . . . Fun and Games . . . Who Put the “Life” in “Folklife”? . . . “We Must Not Be Enemies” . . . March Madness!

February 2009
I Do Solemnly Swear . . . I'll Be Back ... Forever . . . The Quest for Black Citizenship . . . No Boarding Pass Needed With This Passport . . . Fifty Nifty United States . . . Is This A UFO? . . . What's a Water Baby?

January 2009
Deliver the Letter, the Sooner the Better . . . (Al)bright Ideas . . . Barack the Bard . . . Headlining the Inauguration . . . Prizing Humanity . . . All Hail the Stinky Cheese Man . . . What Do You Know About the First 10 Presidents?