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  • Celebrating three years of making, sharing and building community

    From preparing food in a cooking class to engraving a cutting board, repairing household appliances to creating artwork to display in your home, the opportunities to create and learn are endless at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Makerplace. 

    Now celebrating its third year, the Makerplace is the place where Arlington Heights and area residents can learn skills and gain experience to make almost anything. 

    The library will celebrate with the community at an Anniversary Party on September 22, from noon-3 p.m. at 112 N. Belmont Ave., where visitors can stop by and explore the free opportunities available, including using the

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  • Find out all that fall has to offer - and register for September programs

    As summer draws to a close, the library looks forward to fall, and welcomes you to explore the new September library newsletter, featuring the return of the popular One Book, One Village all-community read initiative. Discover the book all of Arlington Heights will be talking about, and register now for programs from live music to Mahjong-playing, movies to Speed Friending, a live author event and even a Bonfire at the Museum. 

    Learn about exciting programs for all ages highlighting Hispanic Heritage Month, with concerts, salsa dancing and more. Meet some of the participants from the library's monthly book discussion

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  • "The Collected Regrets of Clover" named One Book choice for 2024

    It's official! The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer has been selected by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library as its 2024 book for its annual community read, One Book, One Village (OBOV). The title was revealed on Friday evening, August 23 during a kickoff party in the library's Hendrickson Room. 

    Programs and Exhibits manager Jennifer Czjaka welcomed attendees by saying, "We can't have a community read without readers so thank you for joining us!" With a nod to OBOV celebrating its 11th anniversary, Czjaka shared an entertaining look back at the ten books previously chosen by the library since

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NEW TO THE LIBRARY

Frequent fliers
Kirwan, Noué,
Lanie Turner lives a little life. Between her job as an anonymous administrative assistant and her small circle of friends, Lanie only truly feels like herself when she travels to England on her annual vacation to reunite with her exuberant extended family--and her longtime boy-next-door crush, Jonah (aka her grandma's neighbor). But this year, Lanie's favorite cousin, Gemma, is engaged to Jonah...and the couple wants Lanie to be the maid of honor and best mate at their wedding. How can Lanie say no? This turns Lanie into a frequent flier, commuting from NYC to London on a semi-regular basis to help with wedding prep--and sadly, to check in on her ailing grandmother. Luckily for Lanie, she often has a handsome Dr. Ridley Aronsen, who travels just as regularly as Lanie for his work. The two quickly realize their chemistry and plan their commutes so they can travel together. But Ridley hasn't told Lanie that he's a widower and a single father now--opening up to love again is harder than he realizes. A steamy layover in Amsterdam convinces him otherwise, especially once Lanie invites him to be her plus-one for the wedding. Feeling more independent than ever, Lanie is emboldened to expand her she promises herself she'll move on from Jonah, move away from home and go back to school to study for her dream job. After all, life's problems seem tiny from thirty-one thousand feet in the air.
Morbidly yours
Fairbanks, Ivy,
"An opposites-attract romantic dramedy about a shy, demisexual Irish mortician who must marry by his 35th birthday to keep his beloved family business, and the Texan widow escaping her past who moves in next door"--
Jimi Hendrix live in Lviv
Kurkov, Andreĭ,
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the source of the city's "anomalies." Meanwhile, across Lviv, Taras, a cab driver, ferries kidney-stone patients over cobblestone streets in his ancient Opel Vectra. He's wooing Darka, a woman who works nights at a currency exchange. The young lovers don't know it, but their fate depends on the two lonely old men, relics of a bygone era, who will stop at nothing to save their city--Back cover
The thirteenth husband
Macallister, Greer,
"Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-life heiress Aimee Crocker blazed an unbelievable trail of public notoriety, private pain, and the kind of strong independent woman the 1880s had never seen. Her life was stranger than fiction and brighter than the stars, and she whirled through her days as if she was being chased by something larger than herself. Greer Macallister brilliantly takes us into her world and spins a tale that you won't soon forget"--
The devil wears scrubs
McFadden, Freida,
"Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact."--Page 4 of cover
The trap
Glass, Ava, 1974-
"Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning--but they have no idea who the target is. Surrounded by the world's most powerful political leaders in a gridlocked city, Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait. With time running short, Emma faces the most perilous mission of her career. How far will she go to catch the killer?"--
The accomplice
Jackson, Curtis, 1975-
"Author S.A. Cosby meets Netflix blockbuster Money Heist in the first novel by New York Times best-selling author and global superstar Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, who confidently charts the journeys of Nia Robinson, a Texas ranger who is on the hunt for wily bank robber Desmond Roberts in this high-tension, fast-moving page turner about power, equity, and revenge"--
Prime time romance
Robb, Kate,
"Newly divorced on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Brynn is sick of heartbreak. She thought she had found her happy ending, but now she's now living with a roommate, Josh, to afford her mortgage and trying to adjust to her new single life. At least she's got Carson's Cove to binge, her beloved 2000s teenage soap. The show ended unexpectantly on a cliffhanger after five seasons, and the two main characters, Sloan and Spencer, never got to declare their love for one another. The show is still perfect in Brynn's eyes; despite all the drama that goes down, things always have a way of working out in Carson's Cove...unlike her own life. So when a birthday cake surprisingly shows up on her and Josh's doorstep, Brynn makes a wish for the one thing she always wanted (but failed to achieve herself): a happily-ever-after. The next morning, she doesn't wake up in her apartment. She's in Carson's Cove...and Josh is there too. Everyone seems to know them, except they're not Brynn and Josh; they're Sloan, the sweetheart of Carson's Cove, and Fletch, the town's bad boy. And to get home, they have to make Brynn's wish come true by ensuring Sloan and Spencer, the hometown heartthrob, end up together at last. But as they spend more time together, Brynn and Josh realize that Carson's Cove might not be as perfect as seen on tv...especially when they start developing feelings for each other in a plot twist nobody expected. Will they stick to the script, or will real love change the story forever?"--
Polak
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
"Spotykają się w Barcelonie - polski pianista i hiszpańska mecenaska sztuki. W pierwszej chwili nic nie zapowiada, że połączy ich coś więcej niż tylko jeden wspólny wieczór. Powoli rozkwitająca znajomość zmienia się w zderzenie żywiołów. I choć Beatriz nie rozumie, dlaczego ulega Witoldowi, nie potrafi oprzeć się zachwytowi, który dostrzega w jego oczach. Widzi i czuje, że dla kogoś jest najważniejsza na świecie. Kameralna, subtelna opowieść o dwojgu samotnych ludzi wibruje i iskrzy od niedopowiedzeń. Prowokuje pytania o to, skąd bierze się fascynacja, kiedy rodzi się namiętność i wreszcie: czym jest miłość."--
The madness
Kurtagich, Dawn,
In the Welsh countryside, Mina Murray receives an unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, and soon Mina's carefully curated life is turned upside down
Till death do us part
Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth
"Ten years ago, June's beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient, supportive man named Kyle. She's excited to finally begin a new chapter in her life and start a family. But out of the blue, she sees him--Josh, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt June carries about finally moving on, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place? June tries to forget about this vision, chalking it up to grief and nerves, but soon enough, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who's already worried she hasn't quite left her past behind, June secretly flies to Napa for answers. But she's not prepared for all the secrets she's about to unlock because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie"--
The queen's lies
Clements, Oliver, 1972-
"The latest in the thrilling Agents of the Crown series follows John Dee and his wife working together in an act of espionage that may turn out to be treason"--
Before we were us
Hunter, Denise, 1968-
"Before We Were Us is a cozy, autumnal, opposites-attract Hallmark movie mixed with 50 First Dates. Denise Hunter weaves a charming romance between a woman who can't remember her own love story and the man who couldn't forget her even if he wanted to. The perfect escape into a happily-ever-after"--
Errands & espionage
Tschida, Sam, 1979-
"After being recruited to pose as a secret agent, a single mom finds herself on an unexpected adventure in this fast-paced and deliciously witty spy romcom, perfect for fans of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. Meet Gabby Greene: Housewife. Glorified taxi driver and maid. Burner of meatloaf. Recently divorced Gabby Greene spends most of her days listening to self-help books while wrangling her loving yet erratic kids. Having been married for over a decade, Gabby has shoved aside her career and ambitions to make room for mountains of laundry, running errands, and investigating the case of the missing socks. Her number one suspect: their horny Bichon Frise, Mr. Bubbles. All that changes when a secret government agency comes knocking on Gabby's door. At first, she thinks some reality show is pranking her, but the truth hits home when they announce they need her to go undercover and finish a mission that one of their-now-dead-agents started. While she can't deny the uncanny resemblance to her apparent doppelgänger, taking agent Darcy Dagger's place won't be easy, though, and hilarity and hijinks soon ensue as Gabby contends with juggling her responsibilities and trudging through a crash course in Spy 101 with a handsome James Bond-type who has secrets of his own. As Gabby embarks on a dangerous mission involving money laundering, a Russian oligarch, and an unfortunate incident with a prosthetic nose, she begins to realize that she is far from the invisible housewife she once believed herself to be, and that maybe, just maybe, she might be capable of saving the day"--
The trial of Mrs. Rhinelander
Bryce, Denny S
"New York, 1924. Born to English immigrants who've built a comfortable life, idealistic Alice Jones longs for the kind of true love her mother and father have. She believes she's found it with Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the shy heir to his prominent white family's real estate fortune. Alice too, is "white", though she is vaguely aware of rumors that question her ancestry - gossip her parents dismiss. But when the lovers secretly wed, Kip's parents threaten his inheritance unless he annuls the marriage. Devastated but determined, Alice faces overwhelming odds both legally and in the merciless court of public opinion. But there is one person who can either help her - or shatter her hopes for good: In the 1940s, her estranged niece, Roberta Brooks, must put aside her disdain for her infamous aunt to combat an unexpected new Rhinelander legal assault. And in the 1920s, reporter Marvel Cunningham lives to chronicle the social change and the Harlem Renaissance's fiery creativity, but when Alice's story dominates the headlines, Marvel's job is to cover it. At first, Marvel and Roberta, in different decades, see Alice's legal entanglements as tabloid sensations generated by a self-hating woman who failed to 'pass'. But the deeper they investigate, the more they will learn about the reasons behind Alice Jones's behavior and what the three women have in common." --

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Upcoming Programs

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22
Sep

Makerplace’s 3rd Anniversary Party!
- /Makerplace Building

22
Sep

Teen Advisory Board (TAB)
- /Cardinal Room

22
Sep

Music in the Stacks
- /First Floor

23
Sep

Kids' Time
- /Lindsey Room

23
Sep

Play Time
- /Kids' World

23
Sep

Kids' Time
- /Lindsey Room
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