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Upcoming Events

Computer Basics Lab

10:00am - 12:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Family Story Time @ Cook Park

10:00am - 10:30am

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Nonfiction Book Club

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Social Services Consultations

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Hyacinth in Watercolor: A Spring Floral Workshop

10:00am - 12:00pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Spring Craft Swap: Donor Early Access

11:00am - 12:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Spring Craft Swap: General Admission

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Hyacinth in Watercolor: A Spring Floral Workshop

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Family Maker @ the Library! Dancing Droids Session 1

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Great Decisions

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Family Maker @ the Library! Dancing Droids Session 2

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Nintendo Club: Player's Choice

4:15pm - 5:00pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Studio Workshop: Cricut Demonstration

7:00pm - 7:30pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Classics Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

ESL Class

9:00am - 12:15pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Chair Yoga for Everyone

9:00am - 10:00am

Off-Site

English Conversation Cafe

10:00am - 11:30am

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Service Craft: DIY Fleece Crafting

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Needle Felted Sheep

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

Spin & Share: Vinyl Night at the Library

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Aspen Drive Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Studio Workshop: Photo and Image Conversion

7:00pm - 7:30pm

Aspen Drive Library, Vernon Hills

Tai Chi 101

9:00am - 10:00am

Off-Site

DAR Genealogy Workshop

10:00am - 1:00pm

Cook Park Library, Libertyville

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Erica’s Pick of the Week: This Story Might Save Your Life

These days, it’s rare for a book to keep me up late – in large part because I love sleep almost as much as I love reading. It takes a truly gripping title to disrupt bedtime. But thanks to its twisty plot, breakneck pacing, and appealing leads, Tiffany Crum’s debut, This Story Might Save Your…

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April Highlights

Interrupting cow by Jane Yolen

Piranhas dont eat bananas by Aaron Blabey

Theres a dragon in my dinner by Tom Nicoll

Fun hacks by Lisa M. Bolt Simons

Frogs are funny by the Muppets with Brandon T. Snider

Yotsuba by Kiyohiko Azuma

Youth Group by Jordan Morris

The comediennes guide to pride by Hayli Thomson

This will be funny someday by Katie Henry

Creepy Cat by Cotton Valent

Bossypants by Tina Fey

John dies at the end by David Wong

Will my cat eat my eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty and Dianne Ruz

Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris

Dungeon crawler Carl by Matt Dinnima

Farrah rocks new beginning by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Dear new friend by Taraneh Matloob

Mama Shamsi at the bazaar by Mojdeh Hassani and Samira Iravani

Saffron ice cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh

These olive trees by Aya Ghanameh

You started it by Jackie Khalilieh

Man o war by Cory McCarthy

All American Muslim girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney

Here to stay by Sara Farizan

As long as the lemon trees grow by Zoulfa Katouh

The dream hotel by Laila Lalami

Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

What will people think by Sara Hamdan

The true true story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine

The day the river caught fire by Barry Wittenstein

Black beach by Shaunna and John Stith

Green Jolene and the neighborhood swap by Wendy Mass

Nate the great and the Earth Day robot by Andrew Sharmat

Earth day and the environment by Kate Messner

The reality of recycling by Stuart A. Kallen

How to manage your eco-anxiety by Anouchka Grose

Earth Day and the global environmental movement by Christy Peterson

Fighting in a world on fire by Andreas Malm

Urgent message from a hot planet by Ann Eriksson

Zen and the art of saving the planet by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Earth by Elsa Panciroli

How to prepare for climate change by David Pogue

A life on our planet by David Attenborough

The oldest rocks on Earth by Simon Lamb

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