Monday, December 26, 2022, 7:00 PM .
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching the low budget sci-fi movie, Doomsday Machine.
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.
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.
Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards.
Monday, December 19, 2022, 7:00 PM .
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching the comedy of errors, Misbehaving Husbands.
We could all name a ton of movies set on most holidays. Christmas movies are probably the easiest with Halloween a close second. But what about Thanksgiving? How many come to mind? You probably thought of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So did I? I thought of a few slightly more obscure ones, too. Check 'em out.
In honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, this month's task for our 2022 Reading Challenge is to read a thriller that does not feature women as victims. Below you'll find a few recommendations to meet the task, but for even more suggestions, give us a call at 708-867-7828. Your librarians are here to help.
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2021 were announced during the World Fantasy convention in New Orleans.
Monday, December 12, 2022, 7:00 PM .
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, and Walter Pidgeon in The Last Time I Saw Paris.
In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
In a ceremony at the Austin Central Library, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of their ninth annual Kirkus Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature.
Monday, December 05, 2022, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching John Huston's adventure comedy, Beat the Devil.
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles won the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award, a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It is named after author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award in 1987.
Congratulations to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for The House of Rust.
November, 2022.
Join us in the Eisenhower Library Book Club Group on Facebook, a place to read and discuss books with our community. We'll choose a new book every month and share discussion questions, author interviews, recommended read-a-likes, and anything else we can think of to enhance your reading experience.
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Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night, moves in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 6:30 PM.
Escape the ordinary with monthly discussions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas. This month we'll discuss We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
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.
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise.
July 13 – 27, 2022.
We’re excited to join libraries and readers across the country in the Big Library Read, a reading program that connects readers around the world with the same ebook at the same time without any wait lists or holds.
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.
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach.
