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Has Miki fallen too hard? It’s summer, and Miki Yoshida is learning all about love. Her senior year has blossomed with promise ever since she gained Hiro Sakurai’s confidence. Now, she’s resolved to keep his trust as he reveals more about his secret mission and warns:  “Don’t get involved!”"But Miki

Briony committed a crime. She killed her stepmother and made her twin sister, Rose, sick. Briony’s guilt is a cloak that she wraps herself and now can’t imagine not wearing it. To escape from her burden, she goes to the swamp where she tells stories to the Old Ones, the spirits who haunt the marshes

Princess Margrethe has been hidden away while her kingdom is at war. One gloomy, windswept morning, as she stands in a convent garden overlooking the icy sea, she witnesses a miracle: a glittering mermaid emerging from the waves, a nearly drowned man in her arms. By the time Margrethe reaches the sh

Delphine Khanum fantasizes about rekindling her relationship with her father-in-law Zaki, whom she loved long before she met and married his son. But as she discovers in this richly layered, multi-generational tale, the closer one’s dreams become, the more risk there is of losing sight of what reall

    A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood’s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked

Library Assistant – Part Time The Lake Bluff Public Library is seeking two energetic and customer-focused individuals to work as Library Assistants! Duties include circulation services like checkout, renewals, reserves, and fine payment. Other duties include locating and recommending materials, prov

Library Assistant – Part Time The Lake Bluff Public Library is seeking two energetic and customer-focused individuals to work as Library Assistants! Duties include circulation services like checkout, renewals, reserves, and fine payment. Other duties include locating and recommending materials, prov

In rural India, where only sons matter, a young woman saves her daughter’s life by placing her in an orphanage.  Moving between two worlds and two families, one struggling to survive in the fetid slums of Mumbai, the other grappling to forge a cohesive family despite their diverging cultural identit

Join librarians Carlen DeThorne and Eric Bailey to hear about books that will grab your interest, are found in our library, and may have fallen under your radar tonight from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm! Carlen and Eric will highlight 4-6 books that appeal to adults in a 30 minute book talk. Tonight’s focus w