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  • Teens, prepare for final exams with our Finals Study Lounge

    Study for your final exams in the Hub and we'll provide brain-powering snacks, laptops and group study areas to help you prepare. Service dogs will be visiting Saturday, December 14 from 2-3 p.m. and Tuesday, December 17 from 4:30-5:30 p.m.

    For high school students only.

    Dates and Times
    Saturday, December 14, noon-5 p.m.
    Sunday, December 15, noon-6 p.m.
    Monday, December 16, 3-9 p.m.
    Tuesday, December 17, 3-9 p.m.
    Wednesday, December 18, noon-9 p.m.
    Tuesday, December 19, noon-9 p.m.

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  • Join us for the Friends of the Library Holiday Sale

    Join the Friends at their annual Holiday Sale! This festive shopping experience features unique, gift-quality books, movies, music and more. Choose gifts for the adults and children on your shopping list from a large selection of cookbooks, leather-bound classic literature, art, history, vintage books, fun games, beautiful puzzles, handmade seasonal greeting cards and journals. Children's items features books and games for all ages. 

    The Holiday Sale is open on Saturday and Sunday only; there is no Friday Member's Night at the Holiday Sale. The Holiday Sale is open to the public. 

    Date and time: Saturday, December 7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m

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  • Are you in your 20s or 30s? We want to hear from you!

    If you are in your 20s or 30s, the library wants to hear from you!

    The library would like our community's input to help inform our special events plans for 2025, especially new programs for customers ages 20-39.

    Please fill out this short survey to share your thoughts. This survey is intended for Arlington Heights residents ages 20-39.

    Thank you so much for your participation. If you would also like to get email news about programs for this audience, click here to sign up.

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NEW TO THE LIBRARY

My darling boy
Cooper, Helen (Helen Mary), 1985-
"A deliciously vengeful and sinister suspense novel, about two older women whose friendship cracks after one son murders the other"--
Hardly strangers
Robinson, A. C.,
"This is the night Shera's been waiting for: She's at a trendy Silver Lake bar to finally get a drink with the handsome, charming filmmaker she's been pining after for months. But when Max King--the alluring and mischievous frontman of an Irish punk band--enters the picture, an electric attraction ignites between them. Shera's evening begins to unfold in ways she never imagined, and she surprises herself by getting swept up in his energy and daring to feel again after past heartbreak. But how does she know their passionate encounter won't expire in the morning? And is she ready to shed some of her hard-earned armor for this disarming stranger?"--
Ne v tomu mist︠s︡i ne v toĭ chas : roman
McAllister, Gillian,
880-03
Unforgotten
Gray, Shelley Shepard,
"Years have passed since an attempted assault and an accidental death forever changed the lives of Bethanne Hostetler and Jay Raber. When an unexpected turn of events gives them an opportunity to make peace with the past, they'll have to make it through yet another dangerous situation before the healing can begin."--
Christmas with the queen
Gaynor, Hazel,
December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father's Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a postwar Britain hungry for change. As preparations begin for the royal Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, old friends--Jack Devereux and Olive Carter--are unexpectedly reunited by the occasion. Olive, a single mother and aspiring reporter at the BBC, leaps at the opportunity to cover the holiday celebration, but even a chance encounter with the queen doesn't go as planned and Olive wonders if she will ever be taken seriously. Jack, a recently widowed chef, reluctantly takes up a new role in the royal kitchens at Sandringham. Lacking in purpose and direction, Jack has abandoned his dream to have his own restaurant, but his talents are soon noticed and while he might not believe in himself, others do, and a chance encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and ambition. As Jack and Olive's paths continue to cross over the following five Christmases, they grow ever closer. Yet Olive carries the burden of a heavy secret that threatens to destroy everything. Christmas Day, December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen's first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver... --
Flint Kill Creek : stories of mystery and suspense
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
"These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink. She finally decides that she will join him when he suggests they meet at his home. A man is so forgetful that his wife panics and yells into his phone, asking where their daughter has gone. A young man is curious to see why sirens have filled the night and the police arrest him, beginning an unimaginable nightmare. A woman resents that a colleague has achieved greater success and thinks she ought to do something about it. It is impossible to know where a story by the creative genius of Joyce Carol Oates will end and what frightening paths will lead to that end"--
Rental house
Wang, Weike,
"Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a "great white" costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ("To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat," says her father). Nate is from a rural, white, working class family that has never trusted his intellectual ambitions or - now - the citizenship status of his "foreign" wife. Nevertheless, some years into their marriage, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations. The results are disastrous and revealing. First in a cozy beach house on Cape Cod, and later in a luxury bungalow in the Catskills, the couple is forced to confront the hidden truths at the core of their relationship. Alongside their giant sheepdog Mantou, Keru and Nate navigate visits from in-laws, a sibling, and surprising new friends, all while trying to determine if they have what it takes to make themselves and each other happy. How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) are needed to make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what does it take to shepherd everyone back together?"--
The legacy of Arniston House
Huchu, T. L.,
Sixteen-year-old ghostalker Ropa works alongside Sir Callander to prevent the return of the dreaded Tall Man, who aims to merge the worlds of the living and the dead
Roland Rogers isn't dead yet
Allen, Samantha (Journalist),
"Adam Gallagher has knocked on thousands of doors. An ex-Mormon and almost-famous memoirist, he is used to sharing his life story with strangers. But this day, this house, is different. For it belongs to none other than Roland Rogers: Hollywood Hunk, and soon to be author. Roland has a story to tell, a decades-old secret to spill, and he's decided that Adam is just the guy to help him do it. Ghostwriting is hard enough, let alone when you're dealing with a real ghost, and so it isn't long before Roland's idea of what his book should be clashes with Adam's vision for what it could be.But the clock is ticking, the ice melting. And as more truths are told, both men soon discover that this experience is less of a coming out, and more of a coming home..."
A dog's purpose
Cameron, W. Bruce,
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives that touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose?
Court of the vampire queen
Robert, Katee,
"Court of the Vampire Queen is a dark and incredibly spicy book that contains dubious consent, blood play, patricide, pregnancy, blood, gore, murder, explicit sex, vomiting (caused by pregnancy), discussions about abortion, abusive parent (father, historical, off-page), attempted sexual assault (alluded to, nongraphic), and attempted drugging." --
Mistletoe season : three Christmas stories
"This Christmas, three couples find themselves under the mistletoe... whether they want to be there or not"--
Rolling toward clear skies
Hyde, Catherine Ryan,
"Maggie Blount, divorced mother of two and California physician, puts her private practice on hold when disaster strikes. Doctors on Wheels takes her and Alex--Maggie's professional and romantic partner--wherever they're needed. After rolling into rural Louisiana in the wake of a category five hurricane, Maggie immediately bonds with two sisters and their puppy, all orphaned by the storm. It's enough to break Maggie's heart, and she's not leaving them behind. Feeling blessed and looking forward to their new foster home in affluent Vista del Mar--a world apart from the one they've known--Jean and Rose are polite, appreciative, and humble. Frankly, they're the polar opposite of Maggie's own self-involved teenage daughters, Willa and Gemma, who resist this intrusion by strangers into their privileged lives. Soon enough, Maggie's new blended family is in chaos. Teaching Willa and Gemma about gratitude and empathy will be hard enough. Maggie must also admit her own role in their entitled upbringing, undo the damage, and anticipate the needs of all four girls and a puppy, all amid faraway natural disasters and those closer to home"--
The broken places
Sheridan, Mia,
The streets of San Francisco aren't as sunny as the city pretends they are. Inspector Lennon Gray has learned this the hard way, and it's starting to wear on her. When a new case plunges her into the depths of the transient community, Lennon must once again face ugly truths about humanity. Her new partner makes things a little easier, though. Agent Ambrose Mars is charming--innocent, somehow, despite his own hard years in the field. The combination leaves Lennon fascinated and disturbed at the same time, and she's even more drawn to him for it. As they investigate the hallucinogenic drug that's forcing homeless citizens into bizarre and dangerous role-plays, Lennon and Ambrose find their relationship intensified with every new twist. But when these revelations begin to uncover secrets she wasn't prepared to know, Lennon will have to decide how much more she can take...before something important is taken from her
Dear Ben : the secret life of Benjamin Franklin
Koski, Michael,
"On his last night, the great man is compelled to tell the true story of his life to his friend and manservant, Bobby, including the unsavory bits history books will gloss over"--Page 4 of cover

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Upcoming Programs

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5
Dec

Stay & Play
- /Full Hendrickson Room

5
Dec

Culture & Conversation (intermediate +)
- /Room I

5
Dec

Beginning ESL
- /ESL/Literacy Office

5
Dec

CANCELED: Using Your Mac: Basics
- /Training Center

5
Dec

Get Help: Connect with Local Government
- /Full Hendrickson Room

5
Dec

Culinary Kids: Cookie Decorating
- /Makerplace - Kitchen
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