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The Prospect Heights Public Library's Annual Magazine Giveaway will be held on Friday September 12 from 10am-6pm and Saturday September 13 from 10am-5pm. Due to the Library's limited space, older magazines are given away to those who can use them. Browse through hundreds of issues and take home those ... (more)that interest you. All magazines are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Prospect Heights Public Library's Annual Magazine Giveaway will be held on Friday September 12 from 10am-6pm and Saturday September 13 from 10am-5pm. Due to the Library's limited space, older magazines are given away to those who can use them. Browse through hundreds of issues and take home those ... (more)that interest you. All magazines are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Did your imagination ever take you to a secret place that no one else had ever been? Follow the innocent and lovely Katherine from the beginning to the end of her formative years. Magical entities seem to watch and protect her and lead her into a secret world.

The first three of our eight titles for the 2008-2009 Book Discussions focus either on other places, other times, or both. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the tale of a Chicago man who is afflicted by chrono-displacement disorder. That is, he is unavoidably whisked around in time and place.

The new Men’s Book Discussion will kick off with a discussion of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. This novel depicts the lives included in three previous generations of the Reverend John Ames’s family. As he approaches the hour of his own death, the seventy-six year old Reverend chronicles these ... (more)stories in a letter to his son. This book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Join the Library at the Bensenville Theatre for a showing of 3:10 to Yuma. In Arizona in the late 1800s infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling ... (more)to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma" –– a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail - and dangers at every turn - the mission soon becomes a violent impossible journey toward each man's destiny. Based on the story by Elmore Leonard, this suspense-filled Western is a remake of the 1957 classic starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Admission to the show is free. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Join the staff of the Library for Book Brunch on Wednesday, September 24, at 10:00 a.m. to discuss The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery. Book Brunch meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. Books are available at the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call the Library at (630) ... (more)766-4642.

Join our fiction experts on Thursday, September 25, at 7:00 p.m. for a sneak peek at what will be coming out this Fall for fiction readers. We’ll have food and a variety of fun surprises. Don’t miss the fiction event of the Fall!

Thousands of gently used books, videos, audiobooks, and more for sale. Profits used to help the Library purchase items not in the annual budget.

Hundreds of gently used books, videos, audiobooks, and more for sale. Profits used to help the Library purchase items not in the annual budget.

Hundreds of gently used books, videos, audiobooks, and more for sale. Profits used to help the Library purchase items not in the annual budget.

Town House Books & Café is honored to host Julia Glass, recipient of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction. She has also been awarded three Nelson Algren Fiction Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award for her first novel, Three Junes. Ms Glass will be signing copies and reading from her new novel, ... (more)I See You Everywhere.