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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.
    Thursday, 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"--
Summit's edge
Driscoll, Sara,
"As long as there's hope of finding life, no mission is too dangerous for Meg Jennings and her colleagues in the FBI K-9 unit. But locating the wreckage of a hijacked private plane high in the Elk Mountains of Colorado is treacherous in a multitude of ways-some of them impossible for even a seasoned team to predict. The plane, carrying the board of directors of Barron Pharmaceuticals, crashed on a rocky peak and was cleaved in two. Perilous weather means the rescuers have to ascend on foot, with their dogs unleashed in case of falls. It takes hours to locate the wreckage, but miraculously, Meg and Hawk find half a dozen passengers and crew still alive. The hijacker also survived, and has fled into the wilderness with the CEO's son in pursuit. As soon as day breaks, the K-9 teams set out to find both men, and the dogs quickly pick up a scent trail. Meg has used her connections with an investigative reporter to learn as much as she can about the hijacker, hoping to use it when they apprehend him. But first, they must contend with the mountain's savage fury, and an adversary who will destroy as many lives as possible rather than face justice..."--
I think I was murdered
Coble, Colleen,
"A grieving young widow. The AI program that allows her to continue to "talk" to him. And a message she never expected: "I think I was murdered""--
The story of the forest
Grant, Linda, 1951-
"It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks--an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save them from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family's life, Mina and her eldest brother Jossel, board a ship to England. There, the threat of a different war looms large. When World War I hits, Jossel is sent to the front, where he keeps a severely wounded soldier in his unit alive until morning by telling him tales--including that his sister Mina, will marry him if he survives. The soldier lives and asks for Mina's hand, their marriage uniting two growing trade dynasties. But over time, Mina and Jossel will learn that not everyone in their family has survived the wars and pogroms, even as they and their offspring struggle to build new lives in Liverpool in the midst of ever-shifting discriminations. Based on the author's own family history and legends, The Story of the Forest is a remarkable record of family lore and a meditation on the power of stories to ground us, particularly in the face of life's inevitable losses - told with a keen wit and a sharp eye to the charms and the foibles of family by masterful British novelist Linda Grant"--
The close-up
Drysdale, Pip,
"When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she's falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. And she has writer's block worse than ever before. Now, three years later, Zach is famous and Zoe is...not. She's facing her thirtieth birthday, a dead-end job at a flower shop, and a demanding agent, terrified she'll never get her life back on track. But when she goes to make a flower delivery and Zach is at the address, it's like no time has passed at all. They start casually dating in secret, her writer's block disappears, and Zoe begins to wonder: Zach inspired her first novel, so why can't he inspire her second? But then the inevitable happens and photos are leaked, landing Zoe in the press. Her first novel goes viral, and now everyone seems to know her name. Except the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name-including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe's book, step by step, against her..."--
California sunsets : Erin and Jay
Andre, Bella,
While Erin Davenport pictures her future with someone quiet like herself, full-of-energy Hollywood agent Jay Malone works desperately to attract Erin's attention
Wyluzuj kobieto!
Grochola, Katarzyna,
"Czy da się zachować spokój i dystans kiedy jedyne dziecko opuszcza dom rodzinny? To wyzwanie czeka główną bohaterkę książki "Wyluzuj, kobieto!". Jak sobie z nim poradzi? Życie Wiki toczyło się do tej pory normalnym trybem. Była żoną, matką i artystką ilustratorką. Nie zdawała sobie sprawy z tego, że czas nieubłaganie biegnie do przodu, dlatego przeżyła wielki szok, gdy dogoniły ją nieuchronne zmiany. Jej ukochany, wypieszczony synek Piotruś, który od dawna nie jest już małym dzieckiem, postanowił rozpocząć własne życie. Jednak fakt, że chłopak opuścił rodzinne gniazdo to dopiero początek katastrofy... W życiu Piotrusia pojawiła się Agata i stała się jego narzeczoną. Dlaczego do tego doszło? Przecież kto inny jak nie matka najlepiej wie, co mu jest potrzebne. Nawet lepiej niż on sam. "Wyluzuj, kobieto!" mówią. Ale jak to zrobić już nie powiedzą. Czy pochłonięta nieustanną i nie zawsze konieczną troską o rodzinę kobieta znajdzie w sobie siłę, by wreszcie odpuścić i odetchnąć? A może nadopiekuńczość wygra ze zdrowym rozsądkiem?" --
Before we forget kindness
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-
Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling magic continues as new patrons journey to the past, experiencing reunions, making amends and revisiting memories. "Tucked within a small back alley in Tokyo is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. The regular patrons know the café's legend by heart: if they follow the rules, they'll be allowed the unique opportunity to travel back in time-- as long as they return to the present before their coffee gets cold. In the next novel in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, the mysterious Tokyo café welcomes four new guests: a father who could not allow his daughter to get married, a woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one, a boy who wants to share his smile with his divorced parents, and a wife holding a child with no name"---
Spohady pro n′oho : roman
Hoover, Colleen,
Released from prison, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter, but with everyone against her, she turns to local bar owner Ledger Ward who, risking everything, secretly helps her make amends
Fire on the horizon
Smith, Wilbur A.,
A familiar foe. A battle for the heart of a country at war with itself. South Africa, 1899 - the smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal is about to burst into flame. War is coming and no one can prevent it. Colonel Penrod Ballantyne, hero of Abu Klea and Omdurman, is sent to Mafeking, 'the place of stones', to recruit and train men for the fighting ahead. Amber, his wife, the successful novelist, accompanies him - eager to see more of the country her husband is about to risk his life for. But when war is declared, Amber must flee with their baby son and pray for her husband's survival against impossible odds. Eight hundred miles to the south, in Cape Town, Ryder Courtney - adventurer, maverick, industrialist - is using his wealth and connections to bankroll the British war effort. His artist wife Saffron, frustrated by stuffy Cairo society, has joined him with their three children. There is peace in the Courtney household, or so Saffron believes, until their eldest son, Leon, stows away on a train to the front line, determined to join his distinguished uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, in changing the course of history. Saffron and Ryder have no choice but to leave the safety of the Cape Colony and follow. Leon is convinced that his parents are without honour and courage. Little does he realise that he has no chance of escaping the people they used to be. Two families torn apart, caught up in a battle for the heart of a country at war with itself
Now or never : thirty-one on the run
Evanovich, Janet,
"She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There's Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy. She's also on the trail of Bruno Jug, a wealthy and connected man in the wholesale produce business who is rumored to traffic young girls alongside lettuce and tomatoes. Most terrifying of all is Zoran--a laundromat manager by day and self-proclaimed vampire by night with a taste for the blood of pretty girls. When he shows up on Stephanie's doorstep, it's not for the meatloaf dinner. With timely assists from her stalwart supporters Lula, Connie, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie uses every trick in the book to reel in these men. But only she can decide what to do about the two men she actually loves. She can't hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and she's keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, she's got to make the decision of a lifetime"--
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?"--
Teściowe muszą zniknąć
Rogoziński, Alek,
"Na pozór są z dwóch zupełnie różnych bajek. Kazimiera regularnie zasila konto radia Święta Jadwiga i uważa, że największą zmorą naszego kraju są tęczowi, lewactwo i masoni. Maja regularnie paraduje w Marszach Równości, żyje w konkubinacie, a z rzeczy uznawanych za święte uznaje tylko święty spokój. Nic więc dziwnego, że obie serdecznie się nie znoszą. Problem w tym, że syn jednej z nich i córka drugiej są małżeństwem. W dodatku takim, które wpadło w nie lada kłopoty. Kiedy jedno z ich dzieci zostaje oskarżone o morderstwo, a drugie porwane, Kazimiera i Maja muszą połączyć siły, aby udowodnić ich niewinność. Pytanie - czy same się przy tym nie pozabijają?" --
The temporary roomie
Adams, Sarah, 1991-
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect comes an expanded edition of The Temporary Roomie-a witty and relatable romantic comedy about finding joy in the unexpected, with a never-before-seen chapter. No one said fair trade needed to be "fair" As the owner of Honeysuckle Salon, Jessie Barnes usually has everything managed and on track, but now in her third trimester of an unexpected pregnancy, she feels a bit lost and increasingly desperate after faulty plumbing floods her apartment. Unfortunately, her knight in shining armor is actually Dr. Drew Marshall, her best friend's brother, and also the man she chewed out not too long ago for being a chauvinistic dirtbag. Every moment Drew's had to prove her wrong since then has failed, so Jessie's opinion of him hasn't improved. That remains the case when he agrees to let her stay with him during renovations, under one condition: she pretends to be his girlfriend for upcoming work festivities. For the sake of her brother, Jessie is willing to make the tough situation work, and giving Drew a taste of his own medicine sounds . . . intriguing. But when their rivalry sparks a deeper connection, Jessie's future gets even more unclear, and with a baby on the way-she'll have to make a decision soon"--
Desolation code
Brown, Graham, 1969-
"When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA's findings, forcing a high-speed chase--someone really didn't want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMA's inner workings? Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agency's supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital. The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any they've ever faced--the mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globe's...Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation"--

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Upcoming Programs

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6
Dec

How to Use Your Android Device
- /Training Center

6
Dec

VIRTUAL Culture & Conversation (level: intermediate)
- /Zoom Event

6
Dec

Tween Advisory Group (TAG)
- /Lindsey Room

7
Dec

Friends of the Library Holiday Sale
- /Cardinal Room

7
Dec

Art Play
- /Lindsey Room

7
Dec

Culinary: Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
- /Makerplace - Kitchen
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