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  • Celebrate the Makerplace's 4th Anniversary

    Join us from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 21 for a fun-filled day as we mark the Makerplace's 4th Anniversary with the very first Mini Makerfaire: 


    • Turn Yourself into a Sticker: Makerplace staff will show you how to use the sticker printer to create a sticker of you! 

    • 3D Printing Demos: Watch the new 3D printers in action and see the future of making unfold. 

    • Origami Bookmark Workshop: Get creative and craft your own unique origami bookmark. 

    • Community Art Project: Contribute to a collaborative art piece and leave your mark on Makerplace history. 

    • Chef Brian's Cooking Demo: Enjoy delicious snacks prepared by Chef Brian
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  • Join us for One Book, One Gala: an After-Hours Event at the Library


    The library is hosting a gala-style celebration—and you're invited! Join us on September 27 from 7–9 p.m. throughout the library for One Book, One Gala, an evening inspired by The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis, this year’s One Book, One Village selection, which partly takes place at New York City's iconic Met Gala.

    Join us for an after-hours event celebrating art, culture and fashion. Show off your creativity with your best red carpet-ready look and immerse yourself in a library transformed. Guests will enjoy live music from Nahum Smith of El Rey Music Center, a dessert table from Soha's

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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 at these upcoming events.

    Visit the bookmobile at the Farmers Market
    Saturdays, September 6 and 20, October 4,
    8 a.m.–noon / Farmers Market / North Vail Commuter Lot
    N. Vail Ave. & W. Fremont St.

    Visit the bookmobile at the Arlington Heights Farmers Market every other Saturday this fall. Pick out some books and learn about what's new at the library. Special pop-up events at the market are from 9-11 a.m. on Saturdays and include:
    September 13:

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NEW TO THE LIBRARY

The battle of the bookshops
Alexander, Poppy,
"A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition-which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals"--
Everything is probably fine
London, Julia,
"New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances perfect for fans of The Wedding People and The Husbands. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she's going with her life--even if it means revisiting all the places she wishes she hadn't been. It'll be fine. Probably. Maybe"--
People like us : or The other continent, or Johnny Wordcount stumbles into a high-end croissant bar on the Seine in search of The Kid & orders the big dream
Mott, Jason,
"The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book"--
Mendell Station
Hwang, J. B
"A tender debut that follows a woman who, after her best friend's death, loses her faith and quits her job to join the postal service, quickly becoming an 'essential worker' as the city shuts down. It's January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. Then her faith in God--in everything, really--follows suit. Her job teaching Scripture at a private Christian school suddenly seems untenable, so she quits. Thankfully, the postal service is hiring. While Miriam finds comfort in her route, the mail truck can hardly outpace the memory of her lost friend and eroded faith. She finds herself composing letters to Esther that she will never deliver, reflecting on their shared childhoods and deep understanding of each other's difficult families. Mendell Station depicts one woman's deliverance through the peculiar rhythms of work, and the beauty found in small details and gestures, those quotidian labors of love." --Amazon
My other heart
Strenner, Emma Nanami,
"A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home"--class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends. In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Japanese, half American, and interracially adopted by white well-to-do parents. Sabrina is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant single mother who brandishes strict household rules to hide her own secrets. During that last summer before college, Kit travels to Tokyo, determined to uncover her Japanese identity. Her dizzying weeks in Tokyo offer her a critical distance from everything she holds dear--and a taste of first love that refines her understanding of what it means to belong. Sabrina had hoped to take a similar trip to China, but money is tight. Her disappointment quickly subsides, however, as her bold, uncompromising boss becomes a mentor, prompting Sabrina to ask questions she's avoided all her life. Meanwhile, Mimi purchases a plane ticket to Philadelphia. She finally has a lead to renew her search in the country where she and her daughter were parted. When Mimi, Kit, and Sabrina come face to face at the end of this transformative summer, they will confront the people they truly are, dismantling their own assumptions about belonging and the importance of blood ties"--
A game in yellow
Piper, Hailey,
"A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you'll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor's euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare's edge. As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her."--Amazon
Lime juice money
Morey, Jo,
"With the sultry atmosphere and ratcheting tension of The White Lotus, The Mosquito Coast, and Nine Perfect Strangers, Lime Juice Money is an intoxicating, sensuous debut that follows a woman trapped in an increasingly volatile relationship 5,000 miles from home in a Central American jungle. A woman losing herself. A brutal relationship. And a jungle full of secrets. When disaster strikes, hearing-impaired Laelia Wylde leaves London with her new partner, Aidrian, and her young children, hoping for a fresh start in the verdant jungle of Belize. There, she can be closer to her botanist father, get away from her sister, and maybe find a way to open the restaurant she's always dreamed of. While the jungle is mesmerizingly beautiful, it is also unforgiving and brutally hot, filled with deadly creatures and sinister magic. Laelia's fragmented recollections of the past are increasingly bewildering, the gunshots she hears at night through her worsening tinnitus seem to be getting closer, and she still doesn't understand why her father tried to turn her against Aid when they first met -- though maybe she just misheard. Uncovering long-buried secrets that threaten to derail everything, Laelia must somehow find the courage and resilience she needs to survive. Or is she destined to disappear into the shadows, like the orchid her father named her after? Lime Juice Money is a twisty, searing journey of raw love, betrayal, corruption, and greed in a shaken paradise, pulsating with danger both inside and outside the door." --
The locked ward
Pekkanen, Sarah,
"Was it... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause -- and everyone has a theory -- it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here." Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved, murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator? Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen's The Locked Ward, a shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood-and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point. Some doors in the Locked Ward should never be opened."--
The end of the world as we know it : new tales of Stephen King's the Stand
Set during and after the events of The Stand, this authorized anthology gathers original stories from acclaimed writers who expand on the novel's apocalyptic world, exploring survival, morality, and human resilience amid civilization's collapse and the uncertain rebuilding that follows
The book of lost hours
Gelfuso, Hayley,
"A spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the "time space," a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life"--
Black flame
Felker-Martin, Gretchen,
"One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin. A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret. The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer--deeply closeted and pathologically repressed--begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her--and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control. Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can't answer but can't get out of her mind. Do you want it? More than anything? Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin: Manhunt Cuckoo."-- Provided by publisher
La suerte de los idiotas
Martínez Guzmán, Roberto,
"Lastrado por una última misión policial en Madrid que no acabó de la mejor manera, el policía Lucas Acevedo regresa a Galicia para poner en orden su cabeza. Cuando cree que lo ha conseguido, una noche conoce a una mujer que le hará plantearse la solitaria existencia que ha llevado hasta entonces. Sin embargo, pronto se complican sus planes. Mucha gente comienza a morir en su entorno y, en el momento en que se da cuenta de que él también está en el punto de mira, se verá obligado a librar una batalla de la que no conseguirá salir indemne"--Page 4 of cover
Asylum hotel
Blackwell, Juliet,
"An architect photographing an abandoned hotel-once rumored to be haunted-finds herself pulled into a dangerous murder investigation of decades-old unsolved deaths in the property's complicated past in the new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell. Aubrey Spencer loves photographing classic old buildings and the abandoned places that hold old secrets. Hotel Seabrink, perched on a cliff overlooking the sea, is one such place. Currently abandoned but scheduled for a major renovation, it has a torrid history. Back in the 1920s it hosted A-list celebrity clientele, and now the locals insist it is haunted by the ghost of two young women who died there. When Aubrey goes to photograph the site before renovation begins, she bumps into a man named Dimitri Petrov, a minor online celebrity who shares her fascination with old buildings, Hotel Seabrink in particular. When he is found dead the next day at the base of a cliff, the police are quick to call it accidental. But Aubrey is deeply unsettled by the locals' claims that it was murder-and that all the deaths are tied to the hotel. As she digs deeper into its dark history (and its origins as an asylum) and Dimitri's professional rivalries, she becomes mired in an unsolved murder case from several decades earlier, one with eerie parallels to the contemporary case. But someone is determined to keep her from discovering the truth-at any cost"--
Shadow play
Driscoll, Sara,
"Chicago physical therapist Krista Evans finds that her clients rely on her life and love advice just as much as on her hands-on work, so why not share it on the live-streaming platform Twitch? Her friend Hailey Swanson, an inveterate gamer, is willing to help Krista build her presence and cohost a biweekly show. A Word from the Wise is born... Taking real-time questions from chat participants proves more popular than Krista thought possible, and their follower count--and income--grow. But not all attention is wanted, as she soon discovers. An account with the username Chase547 becomes enraged when Krista and Hailey suggest he stop pursuing a woman who constantly rebuffs him. He amps up his efforts, even when he's piled on by other followers, throwing their chats into chaos. Unnerved by Chase547's obsession, Krista turns to law enforcement, but the little information she's able to give the Chicago PD isn't enough to start an investigation. Soon, Krista notices things missing at home and feels as if she's being watched. And when Chase547 begins to leave clues in real life proving what he's capable of, she begins to fear for her safety. Chase547 has more than one way to make his presence known--and this time it won't be from behind a screen..."--
The break-in
Faulkner, Katherine,
"After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns, from the author of the "deliciously twisted thriller" (People) The Other Mothers. Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a playdate with friends at her upscale London home when a disturbed man breaks in. With her child in the next room, Alice panics and kills him-an act later ruled to have been in self-defense. Everyone tries to encourage Alice to move on with her life-but with strange comments appearing online, a mysterious phone call telling her all is not as it seems, and her husband, nanny, and friends behaving strangely, Alice finds herself drawn to the mystery of who her intruder really was. As she digs deeper, she discovers a trail of dark secrets that spiral closer to home than she ever could have imagined"--

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Upcoming Programs

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20
Sep

Illinois Secretary of State Mobile DMV
- /Cardinal Room

21
Sep

Makerplace’s 4th Anniversary Party!
- /Makerplace Building

22
Sep

Kids' Time
- /Lindsey Room

22
Sep

Play Time
- /Kids' World

22
Sep

Kids' Time
- /Lindsey Room

22
Sep

Excel: Charts and Graphs
- /Training Center
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