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For the six weeks before LitWorks we’re going to spotlight one of the authors and artists you’ll have a chance to meet at this year’s LitWorks Teen Book Fest. This week, it's Christa Desir, author of Fault Line, Other Broken Things, Love Blind, and Four Letter Word.
“It was a dark and stormy night,” might be one of the most clichéd lines in literature. Charles Schultz even gave it to Snoopy when the dog started his literary career. It also happens to be the first line in Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
Every month at libraryreads.org, librarians across the county nominate their favorite books. Whichever ten books get the most nominations go onto the monthly list.
You've eaten an apple, right? When you did, did you ever consider that you might be doing the apple tree's bidding? That through its delicious fruit, the tree has tricked you into spreading its seeds and cultivating more trees across the Earth?
Congratulations on a great third battle.
We thank the participants for completing the Battle Survey. We are tallying the results and will be able to annouce the repeating books very soon.
See you next week!
With nods to all series from Scooby-Doo to Nancy Drew and a huge tip of the hat to the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton, Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero is a delight.
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Seventeen year-old Cassandra wants to become a writer like her father, but one without his ten-year writer’s block. The money from his first book is tied up in a crumbling castle where Cassandra lives with her sister Rose and stepmother Topaz.
In the 1960s a scientist named James V. McConnell was researching memory and planarian worms. He know these worms could regenerate when injured. Cut one in half and the head grows a new tail while the tail grows a new head. The weird part is that the two new worms have the same memories.
For the six weeks before LitWorks we’re going to spotlight one of the authors and artists you’ll have a chance to meet at this year’s LitWorks Teen Book Fest. This week, it's Julie Buxbaum, author of What to Say Next, Tell Me Three Things, and more.
With the Black Panther movie hitting theaters, there are a few things in the story line that grab my attention. I grew up in a town called Wauconda, which shares the same pronunciation as the Black Panther's mythical home country of Wakanda. My Wauconda doesn't have a stash of vibranium, nor is it home to a fabulously-powered, cool-costumed superhero, but it is funny to hear its name in popular culture.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 1:30 PM.
Every month The Page to Screen Club watches a movie and discusses the book from which it was adapted.
Congratulations to all of the teams for a very close scoring Battle 2.
We look forward to seeing what everyone can do during Battle 3. See you next week!
Congratulations to all of the teams for a very close scoring Battle 2.
We look forward to seeing what everyone can do during Battle 3. See you next week!
I first noticed the sweet cover art. Then I saw that this book was written by one of my favorite children’s book authors, who recently died, with her young adult daughter. Amy Krouse Rosenthal was a favorite because she was a real person – I got to see her read, speak, and share joy a few times. She lived in Chicago. She will be missed.
Tuesdays, March 13, 2:00 PM &March 27, 6:00 PM.
Twice a month, the Modern Times Film Series showcases new additions to the library’s movie collection. This month's movie will be The Beguiled. During the Civil War, a wounded Union soldier’s arrival at a girls school in Virginia leads to jealousy and betrayal. 2017. Rated R. 1h 33m.
One of the most harrowing moments in astronaut Scott Kelly’s memoir of a year spent on the International Space Station (ISS) comes as he recounts his first spacewalk.
For the next six weeks we're going to spotlight one of the authors and artists you'll have a chance to meet at this year's LitWorks Teen Book Fest. This week, it's S.K. Ali, author of Saints and Misfits.
If you want to make a premiere picture, you might as well steal from Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, a film widely considered to be the best of all time.
Journalist Lorena "Hick" Hickok gave up the Eleanor Roosevelt news beat in 1933 to document the Great Depression for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. She did not, however, give up Eleanor Roosevelt. Instead, she moved into the White House to serve as "First Friend."
Friday, March 09, 2018, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.
We're keeping the library open after hours just for teens. Bring your friends, to watch a movie, eat some pizza, and make a craft. Watch Beverly Hill High School student, Cher, survive the ups and downs of adolescent life in Clueless and then make your own essential oil spritzers said to reduce stress and increase focus.
If you like your heroines vicious and clad in a habit, please read Red Sister, the first in the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence.
Robert Plant continually manages to change up the sound of his music without compromising quality. While he may not have the vocal range he once did, it does not detract from this album.
