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  • Library transforms for Met Gala-inspired "One Book, One Gala" 

    the tiemOn Saturday, September 27, the Arlington Heights Memorial Library welcomed over 200 guests for One Book, One Gala, a special after-hours event inspired by New York City’s iconic Met Gala. The celebration was designed to reflect one of the key settings in this year’s One Book, One Village selection, The Stolen Queen by New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis. It marked the second gala in the library’s history, with the first being the Fairy Tale and Fantasy Gala held in 2016. 

    Guests were greeted with a red-carpet experience with cameras flashing as attendees posed for photos in a scene

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  • Online Learning at Your Library - Ace that Class with Your Library Card

    Whether you're in middle school, high school or college, the school year brings research assignments - and the library has a great selection of online tools that let you find reference and magazine articles, detailed overviews, and even one-on-one live tutoring when you need help with a class or topic. Find these sources and more under Research>Databases.

    Summon & Summon Research Assistant
    Magazine, journal, newspaper and reference articles from multiple databases and vendors at once. The new "Summon Research Assistant" link leads to an AI-powered tool that summarizes articles based on natural-language questions, based on published articles.

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  • Visit the Library in the Community this Fall

    Enjoy the many community events in Arlington Heights and make the most of your fall! Mark your calendars and join the Arlington Heights Memorial Library around town.

    Harmony Fest   
    Friday, October 3, 5–8 p.m. / Harmony Park, Campbell Street & Vail Avenue 

    Autumn Harvest  
    Saturday, October 11, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. / North School Park, N. Arlington Heights Road & E. Eastman Street   

    Digital Inclusion Week  
    October 6–10  
    Arlington Heights Memorial Library is marking Digital Inclusion Week by engaging with our community to raise awareness of digital access and equity. We're committed to expanding our digital services and are actively

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NEW TO THE LIBRARY

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Once upon a Christmas carol : a Christmas novella
Carlson, Melody,
"Being born on Christmas and growing up in dysfunction has turned Carol Langstrum into a modern-day Scrooge. Her plan: to escape this holiday in the Bahamas, but storms reroute her flight to Michigan. Amid the snowy landscape, Carol discovers the magic-and romance-of Christmas"--
Robert Ludlum's the Bourne escape
Freeman, Brian, 1963-
"The death of a lover plunges Bourne into a maelstrom of violence and deceit in this latest installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He's happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again. As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe. He teams up with his spy chief, Shadow, who reveals the shocking secret that Bourne's surrogate father--David Abbott, the founder of Treadstone--is alive and missing. Together they must find Abbott before his enemies do. But Shadow is a master of manipulation who won't hesitate to betray Bourne to get what she wants. With his memory returning in bits and pieces, Jason discovers that the explosion that stole away his identity is part of a deadly game being played among powerful adversaries from Moscow to Washington. It's a game with no winners--because even if he finds David Abbott, Bourne may still find himself with no way out and everything to lose"--
I become her : a thriller
Hart, Joe (Novelist),
"A wife's search for her husband's true identity spirals into a nightmare of fear and paranoia"--
The secret of secrets
Brown, Dan, 1964-
"Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon--a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful organization and hunted by a chilling assailant sprung from Prague's most ancient mythology. As the plot expands into London and New York, Langdon desperately searches for Katherine . . . and for answers. In a thrilling race through the dual worlds of futuristic science and mystical lore, he uncovers a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind."--Dust jacket flap
The glass man
De la Motte, Anders, 1971-
Detective Leonore Asker investigates a mutilated body found on her estranged father's farm while writer Martin Hill uncovers eerie legends at a remote estate, their paths converging as a mysterious figure known as the Glass Man emerges from the shadows
Love at first sight
Williams, Laura Jane (Author),
"A young, hapless mother gets lost in the idea of love-at-first-sight, after she feels an "instant connection" with the man of her dreams in an unexpected meet-cute"--
They fear not men in the woods
McNeil, Gretchen,
"Seven years ago, Jen Monroe left behind her hometown of Barrow, Washington after her father, a forest ranger passionate about protecting old trees from the aggressive logging business that runs their small town, vanished seemingly into thin air. She vowed never to return...until she gets a text from her estranged mother. Her father's remains have been found. It seems impossible to Jen who has always believed her father is still alive, and she returns home, determined to find out what really happened. When her ex-boyfriend proposes a camping trip into the woods in her father's memory, it feels like the opportunity Jen had been hoping for: to find her father. To find the truth. But what she finds lurking in the forest may be deeper, darker and deadlier than she could have ever imagined. And it has no intention of letting her leave. Unsettling, tense, and atmospheric, this is a feminist suspense novel for those who have always known there's something hungry waiting in the woods."--
By a thread
Score, Lucy,
Dominic was staring at me like he couldn't decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me. Dominic I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there's nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job ... in my office ... after being hired by my mother. So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father. She's working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn't feel like sharing with me. And I'm going to fix it all. Don't accuse me of caring. She's nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette. Ally Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face. Author's Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss's sexy vests
An introvert's guide to life and love
Appelbaum, Lauren,
"Mallory Rosen takes her remote tech job seriously. She values routine with predictability and minimum contact with others. So the last thing she wants are any surprises that force her to leave her comfortable Seattle apartment. Surprises like inheriting her late grandmother's seaside cottage in Florida...with the requirement that she keeps her newly widowed grandfather company. With no vacation days left, Mal will have to quickly check on her grandfather, sell the cottage, and return to her structured life before her boss even knows she left. But when she gets to Gramp's new independent living community, it's not so simple. The cottage needs expensive maintenance fixes with a much too charming property manager. Her grandfather constantly interrupts her Zoom meetings. The WiFi drops at the absolute worst times. It all feels too much like déjà vu--the kind that reminds her of when she was fired from her last remote job and was forced to live with her parents. But right when she's about to call it quits, she starts finding the unexpected: making friends at the senior citizen yoga, getting to know Gramps as a person (rather than just a stubborn boomer), and exploring the tight-knit small town. It doesn't help that she keeps running into her hot property manager who seems to know everyone. Just when she finally feels alive, connected to others, and like she has a chance at love, she gets the (almost) worst notice ever: All employees must return to the office"--
Schronisko które spowijał mrok
Gortych, Sławek,
"Schronisko, które spowijał mrok" to oparta na prawdziwych wydarzeniach historia kryminalna rozgrywająca się w owianej tajemnicami Strzesze Akademickiej. W marcu 2007 r. do schroniska w Karkonoszach przybywa pisarz Tomasz Wilczur. Pragnie stworzyć opowieść inspirowaną losami Andrzeja Czerwińskiego, który zginął pod lawiną w Sylwestra 1991 r. Im bardziej zagłębia się w tę sprawę, tym więcej sekretów poznaje. Pisarz dowiaduje się, że Czerwiński przed śmiercią szukał informacji na temat swojej rodziny. Szczególnie ojca Stefana, dawnego zarządcy Strzechy Akademickiej, gdyż mężczyzna przed laty zaginął w dziwnych okolicznościach. Wilczur odkrywa również, że te sprawy mogą mieć coś wspólnego z wydarzeniami z Cieplic z września 1947 r. Przez młodzieńczą głupotę Franek Kostowski ściągnął na siebie oskarżenie o zamach na radzieckiego dygnitarza i był zmuszony do ucieczki." --
Coffin moon
Rosson, Keith (Novelist),
"It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon, after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger and keep his drinking in check, keep his young marriage intact, and keep the nightmares away. Things get even more complicated when his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with Duane and his wife Heidi. But slowly, carefully, guided by Heidi's love and patience, the three of them are building a family. Then Minor crosses the wrong man: John Varley, a criminal with a bloody history and a trail of bodies behind him. Varley, who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. The two of them are left united by only one thing: the desire for vengeance. As their quest brings them into the dark orbit of immortal, undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men drawn to Varley's ferocity, Minor and Julia follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of 1970s Portland to the desolate highways of the Northwest and the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota-only to have Varley turn his vicious power back on them. Who will prevail, who will survive, and what remains of our humanity when our thirst for revenge trumps everything else?"--
Circle of days
Follett, Ken,
"Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family live in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. Joia, Neen's sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. Joia's vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life's work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders - and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare.."-- Provided by publisher
Grommets
Remender, Rick,
"Grommets is both an authentic look at '80s skate culture--a snapshot of the generation that turned skating into a worldwide phenomenon--as well as a heartfelt coming-of-age story following two friends from troubled homes navigating their damage in an era when no one cared. The series' title springs from skater slang, a "grommet" is a commonly used term for a young up-and-coming skater or surfer. Since the '60s it's been used to describe the next generation of kids who, with youthful exuberance, love the sport but want to put their spin on it."--Amazon.com
The devil's code
Wood, Michael (Crime fiction writer),
When Isaac McFadden is found with the dismembered body of a young man in the boot of his car, it's an easy conviction for the jury. But, then a notebook is discovered in Isaac's house, and the police believe they have a serial killer on their hands. Within the pages of the notebook is a chart written in a code, which DI Linus Sutton believes holds the location of more bodies. Made up of seemingly random words, numbers and symbols, and with a suspect who is refusing to talk, Sutton enlists the help of forensic psychologist Dr Olivia Winter to unlock the code

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6
Oct

Genealogy Gumshoes: Family History Discussion Group
- /Shackley Room

6
Oct

Hablemos Español (Let's Speak Spanish)
- /ESL/Literacy Office

6
Oct

Read to Learn (District 214)
- /Cardinal Room

6
Oct

PowerPoint: Basics
- /Training Center

6
Oct

Committee of the Whole Meeting
- /Makerplace Building

7
Oct

Read to Learn (District 214)
- /Cardinal Room
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