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Summer Reading Beyond the Beaten Path 2022
June 1–August 31, 2022 Join your friends and neighbors to "read beyond the beaten path." You can: Read or listen to books in new places, such as while camping in your backyard or basking at the beach. Choose a new genre or topic or author. Join a book group or attend an author talk at t...
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Items in the new Accessibility Collections for Youth and Adults are now available to borrow. The goal of the Accessibility Collections is to support Library users of all ages, abilities, and diverse learning and development needs to be successful in the Library and the community. The collection...
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Celebrating New Library Card Holders
We’re showcasing something special on the cover of each issue of the newsletter this year: first-time Lake Forest Library card holders! Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Lake Forest Library table during the December 2021 West Train Station Saturday Market and chatted with us, completed a s...
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New Fiction
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The Carnival Of Ash -
Destiny of the Dead -
The Circus Infinite -
Star Wars: Tempest Runner (The High Republic) -
Deep Water -
Portrait of a Thief -
Overboard -
The Bangalore Detectives Club -
Woman on Fire -
Remarkably Bright Creatures -
Patience Is a Subtle Thief -
Marrying the Ketchups -
Scorpica -
Light Years from Home -
Three Days in April -
Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition) -
House of Sky and Breath -
All That's Left in the World -
Decorum -
Petrograd -
Reminders of Him -
The Diamond Eye -
The Candy House -
Sea of Tranquility -
The Toymakers -
Goliath -
How High We Go in the Dark -
A River Enchanted -
Death in Cornwall -
Front Page Murder -
Night of the Were-Cat -
The Family Chao: A Novel -
One Italian Summer -
Hook, Line, and Sinker -
Love in the Time of Bertie -
The Silent Sisters -
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead -
The Prince of the Skies -
London Bridge is Falling Down -
A Dash of Death -
The Horsewoman -
Mercy -
A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem -
Jane and the Year Without a Summer -
Iranian Love Stories -
The All-Nighter -
Crushing -
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone -
The Every -
The Trees -
Bibliolepsy -
The Family You Make -
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead
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Anatomy: A Love Story -
Reminders of Him
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Weather Girl -
Real Easy -
The Christie Affair -
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections -
Battle of the Linguist Mages -
Isolate -
The Unfamiliar Garden -
Daughter of the Moon Goddess -
The Bone Shard Daughter -
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good) -
Far from the Light of Heaven -
Activation Degradation -
Crown of Cinders -
Designs on the Dead -
Murder Gets a Makeover -
The Cat Who Saved Books -
Forgiving Paris -
The Vanished Days -
Daughters of the Resistance -
The Party Crasher -
Be My Ghost -
Poison for Breakfast -
Down the Hatch -
The Last Chance Library -
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens -
Ice and Stone -
The Nature of Middle-Earth -
The Riviera House -
Noor -
Once More Upon a Time -
Along the Saltwise Sea -
Light From Uncommon Stars -
The Book of Accidents -
A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City -
The Witching Tree -
The Ballerinas -
W. E. B. Griffin Rogue Asset by Andrews & Wilson -
Criminal Mischief -
The Winter Guest -
Sea Hawke -
Oh William! -
The Becoming -
The Postmistress of Paris -
Wish You Were Here -
Songs in Ursa Major -
Then She Vanishes -
Meadowlark -
Shallow Waters -
Crown of Cinders
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A Heart Divided -
Activation Degradation
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The Sentence -
Now Beacon, Now Sea -
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
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Five Tuesdays in Winter -
Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea -
Shadow Life -
Notes from the Burning Age -
The Ninth Metal -
Legacy of Light -
Forgiven
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The Lincoln Highway -
Harlem Shuffle -
The Madness of Crowds -
Matrix -
Million Dollar Demon -
An Indian Among Los Indígenas -
Half Sick of Shadows -
The Dark Net
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We Are Satellites -
Cici's Journal -
First, Become Ashes -
Day Zero -
Honeycomb -
The Night Tiger -
Shadowed Steel -
Semiosis -
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 -
Record of a Spaceborn Few -
An Unkindness Of Ravens -
Murder on Wall Street -
Dead of Winter -
The Whispering House -
Firefly: Blue Sun Rising Vol. 1 -
Afterlift -
Castle Skull -
A Fatal Lie -
Dead Even -
The Queen's Weapons -
Beneath the Keep -
Reflection -
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry -
The Mask Falling -
The Berlin Girl -
Magpie Lane -
Ocean Prey -
The Kindest Lie -
Fresh Water for Flowers -
The Committed -
Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death Volume 1 -
Snapdragon -
Murder at the Mena House -
Knock Knock -
Windhall -
Smoke -
Unfiltered Marketing -
The Mask of Mirrors -
Winter's Orbit -
Remote Control -
The Witch's Heart -
We Could Be Heroes -
The Lost Apothecary -
Klara and the Sun -
The Kitchen Front -
Ocean Prey
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Of Literature and Lattes -
Fangirl, Vol. 1 -
A Side of Murder -
Nighthawking -
An Extravagant Death -
Blood of Elves -
Bright and Dangerous Objects -
The Dark Archive -
Sleep Well, My Lady -
Bloodline -
The House on Vesper Sands -
Bait and Witch -
The Burning God -
Before the Coffee Gets Cold -
King of the Rising -
Sea Wife -
The Short, the Long and the Tall -
The Talented Miss Farwell -
The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics) -
Justice League: The Darkseid War (DC Essential Edition) -
Lazarus -
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer -
The House on Vesper Sands -
Death at a Country Mansion -
How to Raise an Elephant -
D (A Tale of Two Worlds) -
Armada -
The Awakening -
This Time Next Year -
The Law of Innocence -
Perestroika in Paris -
Cardiff, by the Sea -
Plunge (Hill House Comics) -
Wonder Woman: Dead Earth -
The Wicked Hour -
The Night of the Fire -
Snowdrift -
Cold Wind -
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars -
Our Dark Duet -
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep -
The Awakening
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Armada
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The Traveller and Other Stories -
The Lightness -
The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux -
The Death of Vivek Oji -
The Thursday Murder Club -
The Book of Lamps and Banners -
And Now She's Gone -
He Started It -
The End of the Day -
Chosen Ones -
Burning Roses -
Sucker Punch -
Battle Ground -
Goldilocks -
Transcendent Kingdom -
The Lying Life of Adults -
Squeeze Me -
The Exiles -
Troubled Blood -
Anxious People -
One by One -
All the Devils Are Here -
Burn -
A Peculiar Peril -
Burn Our Bodies Down -
Three Hours in Paris -
Hit List -
A Good Neighborhood -
Walk the Wire -
Redhead by the Side of the Road -
Masked Prey -
Simon the Fiddler -
Godshot -
One Fatal Flaw -
The Book of Lost Friends -
The Other Lady Vanishes -
My Struggle -
Chances Are ... -
The Outsider -
Leverage in Death -
Inland -
Alternate Side -
Field of Bones -
Things You Save in the Fire -
Florida -
I Owe You One -
Ask Again, Yes -
Grist Mill Road -
A Place for Us -
Never Tell -
The New Iberia Blues -
Hellbent -
CIRCE -
The Age of Light -
Big Bang -
The Great Alone -
The Favorite Sister -
The Border -
The War Outside -
The 17th Suspect -
There There -
The Chef -
Criss Cross -
After Anna -
The Great Believers -
The Girl in the Glass Box -
The Confession Club -
The Family Gathering -
Conan Doyle for the Defense -
The Huntress -
The Revisioners -
Twenty-One Days -
Lake Success -
The Lost Man -
The Starless Sea -
The Female Persuasion -
Crudo -
A Better Man -
The Accomplice -
Adjustment Day -
Your Duck Is My Duck -
Contraband -
The Andromeda Evolution -
The Perfect Mother -
Transcription -
The Last Widow -
The Family Upstairs -
High Tide Club -
The Wildlands -
The Return of the Key -
A Christmas Gathering -
Love and Ruin -
Ponti: A Novel -
The Nickel Boys
New Nonfiction
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MenuPause -
The Upgrade -
How To Draw Animals For Kids -
Arabiyya -
The Lazy Genius Kitchen -
I Can Run -
Coach K -
What's So Funny? -
Crochet in a Weekend -
Every Good Boy Does Fine -
The Lost Bank -
Oceans of Grain -
Once a Bitcoin Miner -
On the Line -
The Shame Machine -
Illogical -
Everyday Sisu -
Never Give Up -
Whole Earth -
My Badly Drawn Life -
Edith -
The Nazis Knew My Name -
An Enemy Such As This -
Easy Beauty -
How to Be A Woman Online -
Indelible City -
Ripple -
When Women Kill -
The Listeners -
Get Messy Art -
Every Good Boy Does Fine
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In the Shadow of the Mountain -
Rise -
The First, the Few, the Only -
CEO Excellence -
The Bond King -
The Man Who Solved the Market -
Hedged Out -
The Secret to Love, Health, and Money -
Everyday Sisu
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Already Enough -
Surrounded by Setbacks -
Illogical
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Black on Both Sides -
Who Do I Think I Am? -
Home in the World: A Memoir -
Never Give Up
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High-Risk Homosexual -
Banana breads, loaf cakes & other quick bakes -
Origin -
Putin and Russia -
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American -
Policing the City -
We Are the Middle of Forever -
Easy Beauty
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After the Romanovs -
The Nazis Knew My Name
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Greed in the Gilded Age -
Sandy Hook -
Black Ops -
Tell Me Everything -
The Listeners
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The Where, the Why, and the How -
Architects of an American Landscape -
Harry Potter: Knitting Magic: More Patterns From Hogwarts and Beyond -
News and How to Use It -
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial -
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart -
I Came All This Way to Meet You -
The Woman Beyond the Attic -
Civil Rights Queen -
I Was Better Last Night -
Run Towards the Danger -
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards -
Face the Music -
Dilla Time -
Restoring Your Historic House -
Architects of an American Landscape
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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race -
Beyond Digital -
The Founders -
The Revolution That Wasn't -
How Are You Going to Pay for That? -
Surrounded by Setbacks
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The Awesome Human Project -
The Good Life Method -
Putin and Russia
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Dear Sophie, Love Sophie -
My Badly Drawn Life -
Moon 52 Things to Do in Chicago -
Ways and Means -
Fugitives -
Hell's Half-Acre -
The Naked Don't Fear the Water -
Foreverland -
Secrets of the Sprakkar -
Ahead of the Curve -
Social Justice Parenting -
Bread Book -
The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2022 -
The Pioneer Woman Cooks--Super Easy! -
Meet Me in Bombay -
The Fifties -
South to America -
Villa Air-Bel -
Mala's Cat -
Heiresses -
Worn -
Admissions -
New York's Finest -
The Transcendentalists and Their World -
The Eye Test -
Surrounded by Setbacks
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How to Break Up with Your Friends -
1% Better -
Price Wars -
The Revolution That Wasn't
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The Mind of the Leader -
How to Talk to Your Boss About Race
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Beyond Digital
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How to Win The Bachelor -
Soled Out -
American Comics: A History -
Trail Running Illustrated -
It's Better to Be Feared -
Manifesto -
Bright Lights, Prairie Dust -
Apparently There Were Complaints -
George V -
Free -
The Heroine with 1001 Faces -
If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk -
Names for Light -
Yours Cruelly, Elvira -
Tiger King -
Sea State -
David Copperfield's History of Magic -
American Comics: A History
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows -
The First 21 -
This Long Thread -
The Mind of the Leader -
The Business Writer's Handbook with 2020 APA Update -
A Bigger Picture -
The Privatization of Everything -
Flying Blind -
Find Your Unicorn Space -
Peak Mind -
I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye -
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage -
The Baseball 100 -
Running Smart -
The Beatles: Get Back -
10-Minute Sourdough -
The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day -
The Fifties -
A Conspiratorial Life -
Seeing Red -
Twice Forgotten -
American Injustice -
A Deeper Sickness -
Tiger King -
I Take My Coffee Black -
Real Estate -
Forever Young -
Act Like You Got Some Sense -
The First 21
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Major Labels -
The Boys -
How Magicians Think -
The Lost Art of Running -
Bringing Up the Boss -
The Future of Money -
The Chinese Question -
Career and Family -
The Burnout Epidemic -
Feeling and Knowing -
Anything Is Possible
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 -
On Tyranny Graphic Edition -
The Secrets of Chocolate -
The Art of Sushi -
The President and the Freedom Fighter -
The Best Cruise Destinations -
Looking for the Good War -
The Real Anthony Fauci -
New York's Finest
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American Injustice
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Run -
Murder Book -
Leonard Cohen -
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage
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Midnight in Washington -
Brothers in Arms -
Watching Darkness Fall -
Imperfect Democracies -
Pure Narco -
Boys Enter the House -
Atlas of the Heart -
Everything I Have Is Yours -
Pessoa: A Biography -
Cheated -
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme -
Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall -
Power, for All -
Good Business -
The Contrarian -
The Complete Guide to ETF Portfolio Management: The Essential Toolkit for Practitioners -
Gold, Oil and Avocados -
Being You -
Being a Human -
Courage Is Calling -
Call Us What We Carry -
The New York Times Book Review -
The New Yale Book of Quotations -
Around the World in 80 Books -
The Age of AI -
The House of Fragile Things -
A Land As God Made It -
The American Story -
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces -
Menopause -
The End of Bias: A Beginning -
The Genome Defense -
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court -
How the Other Half Eats -
We're Going to Need More Wine -
The Cost of Living -
The Two Kinds of Decay -
The Next Everest -
A Spectator Is an Artist Too -
Glory Days -
Flamin' Hot -
Let Them Lead -
Go Where There Is No Path -
Happy Not Perfect -
The No-Nonsense Meditation Book -
The Extended Mind -
Mental Floss: The Curious Reader -
What Just Happened -
Baggage -
These Precious Days -
Orwell's Roses -
How to Live. What to Do -
The Sinner and the Saint -
Graceland, at Last -
Cranial Fracking -
When You Wonder, You're Learning -
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents) -
The Art of Preserving -
At the Chinese Table -
Seed to Dust -
The Ecological Gardener -
Sitting in the Shade -
Horse Girls -
The Ultimate Guide to Running with Your Dog -
What Is a Dog? -
Counting Down with You -
We Have Always Been Here -
Mean...moody...magnificent! -
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be -
Things I Learned From Falling -
Inside Pee-Wee's Playhouse -
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited -
Boyz N the Void -
The Digital Darkroom -
Unraveled -
Payoff -
The Genius Zone -
A Radical Awakening -
Full Spectrum -
A River Runs Again -
In a Different Key -
Between Hope and Fear -
Growing Flowers -
How to Catch a Mole -
How to Cook That -
Zoë Bakes Cakes -
Sweet Nature -
Poole's -
Paris Without Her -
Mean...moody...magnificent!
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I Ain't Studdin' Ya -
Fierce Poise -
Nöthin' But a Good Time -
What Made Maddy Run -
The Ultimate Guide to Hiking -
How Boards Work -
Be Exceptional -
Addiction by Design -
The Truth About Lies -
Body Talk -
Heart of Fire -
Paris Without Her
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Lilyville -
Rethinking Competitive Advantage -
Risk Management -
Believe IT -
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing -
The Inevitable -
Notes on Grief -
Between Hope and Fear
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On Extinction -
The Plague Cycle -
The Premonition -
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life -
Come on Over -
The No-Fuss Family Cookbook -
World Travel -
Poole's
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Mother Grains -
The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge -
Give Them Lala -
Sacrifice -
The Price of Peace -
Women in White Coats -
Get Big Things Done -
The Carrot Principle -
The Reindeer Chronicles -
Every Conversation Counts -
Wintering -
The Way of Integrity -
The Quarter-Life Breakthrough -
How to Do the Work -
Bringing Up Race -
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen -
Driven -
Thomas Day -
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro -
The Mighty Bean: 100 Easy Recipes That Are Good for Your Health, the World, and Your Budget (Countryman Know How) -
Kill Shot -
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism -
How to Be Animal -
How to Feel -
What Do I Eat Now? -
Marbles -
The Secret to Superhuman Strength -
The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food -
Hard Line -
Murder at the Mission -
The Wisdom of Crowds -
We Are Each Other's Harvest -
The Art of Punch Needle Embroidery -
Runner's World Run Less Run Faster -
The Musical Human -
Light in the Dark -
Atlas of a Lost World -
Bee People and the Bugs They Love -
Brave Green World -
Into the Deep -
Ida B. the Queen -
Mixed Plate -
Think Like a Breadwinner -
Resetting the Table -
Don't Go Broke in Retirement -
One Decision -
When Nietzsche Wept -
This Book Will Make You Kinder -
My Houseplant Changed My Life -
SAM -
Liftoff -
When Your Child Has a Chronic Medical Illness -
My House Is Killing Me! -
The Food of Oaxaca -
Oasis -
The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes -
Simplicity at Home -
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
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Our Team -
The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright -
My Year Abroad -
The Iconic American House -
Brave Green World
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Children Under Fire -
Quantum Reality -
The Wise Men -
Under Our Roof -
Betting on You -
Kings of Crypto -
The Devil You Know -
Black Boy Out of Time -
Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life -
I'm Judging You -
Like Streams to the Ocean -
The Complete Practical Woodworker -
Wild Sweetness -
Beautiful Salads -
The Last Course -
Already Toast -
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine -
Breath Taking -
Stampede -
Blood and Treasure -
Let's Pretend This Never Happened -
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
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The Black Panther Party -
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction -
Life's Edge -
The Dialogues -
Space Atlas -
Hole in My Life -
Comeback Season -
Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy -
Empowered Embroidery -
Abstract Art -
Your Fully Charged Life -
The Happiness Hypothesis -
Be My Guest -
Julian Bond's Time to Teach -
The Unusual Suspect -
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice -
The IPO Playbook -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book -
The Best of Me -
Plunder -
The Girl Explorers -
Grace & Steel -
What's My Teenager Thinking -
Parenting While Working from Home -
What Cats Want -
In Praise of Walking -
The End of Illness -
Eat Smarter -
Decluttering For Dummies -
Mend it, Wear it, Love it! -
Sewing Face Masks, Scrub Caps, Arm Slings, and More -
The Great British Baking Show -
100 Cookies -
Homemade Yogurt & Kefir -
The Book Tour -
Into the Streets -
Math Without Numbers -
Extraterrestrial -
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology -
Probable Impossibilities -
The Spirit of Music -
Crossing the Line -
42 Today -
Dog's Best Friend -
How to Sleep -
The Future of Nutrition -
Yoga Where You Are -
The Growing Season -
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden -
Adventures in Eden -
The Great British Baking Show
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The Flavor Equation -
Even Better Brownies -
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard -
Consent -
American Wolf -
Set the World on Fire -
Code Name: Lise -
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias -
Loved and Wanted -
We Gather Together -
Creativity -
How to Have Impossible Conversations -
Magic: A History -
Sunny Rolls the Dice -
The World Between Blinks #1 -
Stuck -
The Anxiety First Aid Kit -
White Hot Light -
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds -
Wear, Repair, Repurpose -
At Home with Dogs -
The Art of Training Your Dog -
The Rise -
Eat a Peach -
Pie Academy -
Chaat -
The Vegucated Family Table -
Ottolenghi Flavor -
The Book on Pie -
Solutions and Other Problems -
Notes on a Thesis -
Wild Minds -
Craft Your Own Happy -
Mini Amigurumi Animals -
From Hang Time to Prime Time -
Our Livable World -
The Grizzly in the Driveway -
Black Hole Survival Guide -
Fossils and Fossil Collecting, the Illustrated Guide To -
Wake Up Grateful -
The Secret Gratitude Book -
Happiness Becomes You -
The Crown in Crisis -
Dog Flowers -
The Night Lake -
Happiness in This Life -
The Little Book of Life Skills -
Sewing Machine Reference Tool -
Darning -
Cooking for One -
FOOD52 Your Do-Anything Kitchen -
Christmas Baking -
The Front Steps Project -
Can't Slow Down -
The Mutant Project -
Future Sea -
Mudlarking -
Eleanor -
The Loop -
Mediocre -
Unsinkable -
Wintering -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean -
Cult Writers -
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way -
Oak Flat -
What Cats Want -
Punch Needle Embroidery for Beginners -
Adventures in Eden
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Rugged Access for All -
The 99% Invisible City -
Metazoa -
Ghostways -
Fossil Men -
A Series of Fortunate Events -
The Zealot and the Emancipator -
Begin Again -
Agent Sonya -
When You're Not OK -
This Just Speaks to Me -
Magic: A History -
Good Guys -
Subprime Attention Crisis -
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future -
Relax and Renew -
Storey's Curious Compendium of Practical and Obscure Skills -
Simply Living Well -
Pieometry -
New World Sourdough -
Winging It: Stop Thinking, Start Doing -
Better, Not Perfect -
Craigslist Confessional -
Conditional Citizens -
This Is All I Got -
Good Time Party Girl -
Brag Better -
Power Your Profits -
Dying for an IPhone -
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List 2 -
The Daughters of Yalta -
Is This Anything? -
Stakes Is High -
Cross of Snow -
Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel -
A Fish Growing Lungs -
Here We Are -
The Fifth Risk -
Caste -
An American Summer -
Being Mortal -
Between the World and Me -
Superman's Not Coming -
His Truth Is Marching On -
The Smallest Lights in the Universe -
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes -
Vesper Flights -
Beauty in the Broken Places -
Successful Aging -
Dark Towers -
Open Book -
You're Not Listening -
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me -
Do Nothing -
The Splendid and the Vile -
Our House Is on Fire -
This Is Big -
Joy at Work -
Build Your Dream Network -
Crushing It! -
Rocket Men -
The Poison Squad -
Into the Planet -
Look Alive Out There -
The Good Neighbor -
Travel Light, Move Fast -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind -
The Comeback -
The Last Ocean -
How to Change Your Mind -
A Very Late Story -
Vern Yip's Vacation at Home -
Robin -
Shoot for the Moon -
Amazing Decisions -
The Perfectionists -
Girl, Stop Apologizing -
Barnum -
Calypso -
Zucked -
The Book of Delights -
The Year of Less -
Becoming -
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge -
The Monk of Mokha -
Sick -
Gmorning, Gnight! -
Acid for the Children: A Memoir -
Tell Me More -
And Then We Danced -
Homebody -
Dear Girls -
When -
Small Fry -
Dare to Lead -
All Blood Runs Red -
Brave -
Fashion Climbing -
Parkland -
Finding Chika -
Everything Happens for a Reason -
The Real Lolita -
The Bold World -
Edison -
Blink -
The Spy and the Traitor -
The Source of Self-Regard -
Facism -
Dopesick -
Coventry -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads -
Billion Dollar Whale -
How to Be an Antiracist
New Movies
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West Side Story -
Marry Me -
The King's Man -
One Night in Miami -
Belfast -
Belfast
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House of Gucci -
Respect -
My Salinger Year -
Eternals -
King Richard -
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally -
Then Came You -
The Misfits -
Six Minutes to Midnight -
Driveways -
The Truffle Hunters -
Blithe Spirit -
12 Mighty Orphans -
A Dark Foe -
City of Lies -
The Suicide Squad -
Don't Breathe 2 -
Free Guy -
Here Today -
In the Heights -
Joe Bell -
Old -
Peter Rabbit 2 -
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins -
Those Who Wish Me Dead -
The Protege -
Stillwater -
French Exit -
The Courier -
Lady of the Manor -
Son of the South -
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar -
Judas and the Black Messiah -
The Little Things -
The Marksman -
Nomadland -
The Nest -
Our Friend -
The Informer -
Above Suspicion -
Supernova -
Guest Artist -
Misbehavior -
A Rainy Day in New York -
Honest Thief -
Bad Education -
Mulan -
The Irishman -
Made in Italy -
Unhinged -
The Times of Bill Cunningham -
Midway -
Richard Jewell -
Bombshell -
1917 -
The Turkey Bowl -
Pain and Glory -
Joker -
Parasite -
Fighting with My Family -
The Farewell -
The Mustang -
The Art of Racing in the Rain -
Hotel Mumbai -
The Art of Self Defense -
Killers Anonymous -
Yesterday -
Book Club -
The Hustle -
Operation Finale -
Tolkien -
Vice -
The Command (Kursk) -
If Beale Street Could Talk -
Styx -
Mary Poppins Returns -
Armstrong -
Free Solo -
Rocketman -
Dragged Across Concrete -
The Biggest Little Farm -
On the Basis of Sex -
The Professor and the Madman -
The Mule -
Red Joan -
Apollo 11 -
Deadwood -
Isn't It Romantic -
Wild Rose -
They Shall Not Grow Old -
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Upcoming Events
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Feature Film Friday: "All the President's Men"
3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Bookmark Design Contest
All Day 6/1 - 6/30
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Summer Reading: Read Beyond the Beaten Path
All Day 6/1 - 8/31
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Self-Guided StoryWalk® on the Library Lawn
All Day 6/3 - 6/11
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StoryWalk® on the Lawn led by a Librarian
11:00am - 11:30am
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Feature Film Friday: "Nightmare Alley"
3:00pm - 5:00pm
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See upcoming sessions of MYSTERY BOOK GROUP
Indulge your inner detective and discuss titles from popular mystery series with us.
See upcoming sessions of NONFICTION AT NIGHT BOOK GROUP
Explore critically acclaimed nonfiction books with us. Find out for yourself that sometimes fact truly is stranger than fiction.
See upcoming sessions of AFTERNOONS WITH JUDY LEVIN
Dive deeper into fantastic books with renowned book reviewer and discussion leader Judy Levin.
See upcoming sessions of 20s & 30s BOOK GROUP
Calling all millennials to read and discuss Adult fiction and YA fiction crossovers!
See upcoming sessions of BUSINESS BOOK GROUP
Enhance your business acumen and join us in reading and discussing an engaging business or finance book each quarter.
See upcoming sessions of GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP
Read classic and contemporary essays, short stories, plays, and poems selected by the Great Books Foundation, then enjoy a stimulating discussion of ideas. For upcoming reading assignments and to join the group, contact the group leader.
See upcoming sessions of THE POETRY GROUP
Do you like poetry, but aren't always sure what to make of it? Immerse yourself in verse during interactive presentations that inspire you to spend quality time with excellent works of poetry.
See upcoming sessions of GREAT DECISIONS DISCUSSION GROUP
Join us to discuss and debate foreign policy issues and complete a national opinion ballot to communicate our views to Congress and the White House. Discussion led by the League of Women Voters of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Area.
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Popular Databases
In Library use only: Go to ANCESTRY
https://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com
What you can do with it
Search family histories using census, marriage, birth, death, and military records from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more. International records continue to grow.
User Guide
Go to CITY LASERFICHE
https://laserfiche.cityoflakeforest.com/WebLink/?dbid=0&repo=Lake-Forest
What you can do with it
Access thousands of pages of historical City of Lake Forest public documents including agendas, minutes, ordinances, and resolutions.
How to access
| ⬤ | Works in the browser on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
Go to CLOUDLIBRARY
https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/lakeforestlibrary/Featured
What you can do with it
Borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks, especially new and recently published titles.
User Guide
Getting Started with the cloudLibrary app
Amount
5 checkouts at a time
Loan Period
2 weeks
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "cloudlibrary" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets, Kindle Fire, Nook ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
| ⬤ | No, does not work on Kindle eInk reader |
What you can do with it
View expert ratings from Consumer Reports magazine, which includes evaluations of hundreds of products from appliances to cars to electronics.
User Guide
Go to CREATIVEBUG
https://www.creativebug.com/lib/lakeforestlibrary
What you can do with it
Choose from more than 1,000 award-winning art and craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
User Guide
Getting Started with the Creativebug app
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "creativebug" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
Go to FREEGAL
https://lakeforestlibrary.freegalmusic.com/home
What you can do with it
Download Sony Music songs to keep forever.
User Guide
Getting Started with the Freegal app
Amount
3 downloads per week
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "freegal" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
Go to HOOPLA
https://www.hoopladigital.com
What you can do with it
Borrow and stream movies, music, eBooks, eAudiobooks, comics, and TV shows.
User Guide
Getting Started with the Hoopla app
Amount
- 7 Instant Borrows per month (total for Hoopla plus Hoopla Kids Mode)
- Use a single borrow to get a BingePass which gives you unlimited access to select streaming content for 7 days (such as eMagazines, The Great Courses, or Curiosity Stream documentaries): hoopladigital.com/browse/binge
- Bonus Borrows are a curated collection of popular titles available for unlimited borrowing without using up your monthly borrow limits
Loan Period
3 weeks for eBooks, eAudiobooks, and Comics
3 days for Movies and TV shows
1 week for Music
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "hoopla" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
| ⬤ | Works with Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku |
Go to KANOPY
https://lakeforestlibrary.kanopy.com
What you can do with it
Watch a wide range of on-demand streaming videos including selections from the Criterion Collection, foreign films, classic cinema, documentaries, and more.
User Guide
Getting Started with the Kanopy app
Amount
10 per month (total for Kanopy plus Kanopy Kids)
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "kanopy" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |
| ⬤ | Works with Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku |
Go to LIBBY / OVERDRIVE / DLIL
https://nsls.overdrive.com/nsls-lakeforest/content
You can either use the Libby app or
sign in to your LIBBY account on the Digital Library of Illinois page
What you can do with it
Borrow from a vast collection of eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines.
User Guides
Getting Started with the Libby app
How to Download eBooks to a Kindle
Amount
- 10 eBook/eAudiobook checkouts at a time
- No limit on eMagazines
Loan Period
7, 14, or 21 days (you choose in Settings or when checking out an item)
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "libby" or "overdrive" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets, Kindle Fire, Nook ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works on Kindle eInk readers ... just choose Kindle format when checking out an item |
| ⬤ | Read or listen to titles on a computer with an internet browser: dlil.info or lakeforestlibrary.org/dlil |
Go to LINKEDIN LEARNING
https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/go/lakeforestlibrary
What you can do with it
Be a lifelong learner with free tutorials from the industry leader in technology training. Enhance and expand your business, technology, and creative skills. (Formerly Lynda.com.)
User Guide
Getting Started with the LinkedIn Learning app
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "linkedin learning" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |