Yakima Valley Libraries, along with partners Allied Arts of Yakima, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima Valley Museum, and Radio KDNA, are very pleased to announce our Big Read grant for our 2009 program featuring the novel, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. In the Pacific Northwest, The Big Read is supported, in part, by a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation