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4613 N Oketo Ave, Harwood Heights, IL 60706 | 708-867-7828
Mon – Thur: 9AM to 9PM
Fri – Sat: 9AM to 5PM
Sun: 1PM to 5PM
4613 N Oketo Ave
Harwood Heights, IL 60706
708-867-7828

4613 N Oketo Ave, Harwood Heights, IL 60706 708-867-7828

Mon – Thur: 9AM to 9PM | Fri – Sat: 9AM to 5PM | Sun: 1PM to 5PM

Virtual Bus Trip: The Art Institute of Chicago

Wednesday, May 06, 2020.

We can't take bus trips right now but, thanks to the internet, we can explore the world from the comfort of our homes. Every Wednesday, we're presenting a series of links to cultural institutions in Chicago and beyond. Today visit the The Art Institute of Chicago.


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May 2020 LibraryReads List

Every month at libraryreads.org, librarians across the county nominate their favorite upcoming books. Whichever books get the most nominations go onto the monthly list. Place holds now to get these sure-to-be popular books as soon as possible after they're released.


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The Beekeeper of Aleppo Wins 2020 Aspen Words Award

During a virtual daylong celebration on April 16th, Christy Lefteri was announced as the winner of the third annual Aspen Words Literary Prize for her novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo. "We see wars on our screens and cross paths with the survivors in new lives in our neighborhoods, but we don't see them," Esmeralda Santiago, who served on the prize jury, said. "Lefteri brings us closer so we can, without fear."


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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

If the title of leads you to think this is going to be a fun loving, tongue in cheek, romp of a vampire tale you're only half right. Grady Hendrix has written a down-right scary story full of gory violence, female empowerment, racial politics, capitalist critique, and then, a little fun loving rompiness.


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Excited About Kanopy?

I have known about Kanopy for awhile, as a video streaming service, and I am actually SO EXCITED that we are now to our patrons it at the library!


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Virtual Bus Trip: The Library of Congress

Wednesday, April 29, 2020.

We can't take bus trips right now but, thanks to the internet, we can explore the world from the comfort of our homes. Every Wednesday, we're presenting a series of links to cultural institutions in Chicago and beyond. Today visit the Library of Congress and explore its digital collections.


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Five Books for Earth Day

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event.


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Animal Tails, Human Tales

Charming animal characters can be a lovely stand-in for the humanity in all of us. Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad in The Wind and the Willows, our WE ALL READ book selection, express all kinds of human sentiments and behaviors.


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Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman

Fifty-year-old formerly famous childrens’ book author Judy Vogel is anxious. Separated from her anxious, failed musician husband, they still live in the same house in order to support their anxious thirteen-year-old Montessori school attending son.


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What We Do in the Shadows

With the premiere of season two of What We Do in the Shadows on FX and Hulu, fans can enjoy the continuing misadventures of Nandor, Nadja and Laszlo as they navigate modern day Staten Island…as vampires.


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Get Crafty

Thanks to help from my wife, Jessica, I'm spending a little bit of my stay-at-home time learning how to knit. My first project, a scarf, should be finished today and sent off to my brother for his birthday.


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Virtual Film Series: 1924

On Monday evenings in May we're celebrating the best films of 1924 with online Watch Parties on our Facebook Page. A Facebook Watch Party is a new way to hold live screenings online. Anyone can watch and comment on the videos at the same time to create a shared viewing experience.


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Get Out of the House With Atlas Obscura

If you're like me, and a lot of others around the world, you've been working from home for the past few weeks and you're starting to really feel cooped up. So I wanted to tell you about a book that will give you a feel for getting out in the world, Atlas Obscura.


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The Host

Directed and co-written by Parasite filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, released in 2006, this film follows a three-generation household as they fight for survival from a monster sighted in Seoul, South Korea. A monster that was created accidentally and irresponsibly by American military personnel trying to dispose of toxic chemicals down the sewer lines into the Han River.


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