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Celebrate National Library Week at HPL

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National Library Week is coming! We're inviting you to HPL to enjoy programs, books, and even a few surprises from Mon, Apr 20-Fri, Apr 24.
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Celebrate Women's History at HPL

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From America's favorite fictional sleuth to groundbreaking female songwriters, we're celebrating trailblazing women this March (and beyond!) at HPL.
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Upcoming Events

Exhibit - Lombard Garden Club Centennial

All Day 4/25–4/30
Adult, Seniors
Library Branch: Helen Plum Library
Room: Adult Library Services
Age Group: Adult, Seniors
Event Details:

The Lombard Garden Club is known for its annual Lilac Sale and meetings on a variety of horticultural and conservation topics, to which Club members and the public are welcome.

Advanced Excel

10:00am–11:30am
Adult
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Helen Plum Library
Room: Computer Lab
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Technology Classes
Registration Required
Event Details:

Practice your learned skills and take them to the next level with absolute references, advanced formulas, and macros.

 

Drop-In Studio Hours

10:00am–8:00pm
Adult, Seniors
Library Branch: Helen Plum Library
Room: Studio 411
Age Group: Adult, Seniors
Program Type: Maker
Event Details:

Get creative during drop-in Studio 411 hours. Use the makerspace equipment to sew, laser cut, record a podcast, customize with Cricut, and more!

Israel Blackburn: A Journey from Enslaved Person to Founder of Downers Grove

7:00pm–8:00pm
Adult, Seniors
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Helen Plum Library
Room: Plum Meeting Rooms (Combined)
Age Group: Adult, Seniors
Program Type: Featured, Genealogy
Registration Required
Event Details:

Israel Blackburn, born into slavery in 1818 in Kentucky, moved to Downers Grove after serving with the Union forces in the Civil War.

English Language Learning Classes

6:00pm–8:30pm
Adult
Library Branch: Helen Plum Library
Room: Plum Meeting Rooms (Combined)
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: ESL ELL ELA
Event Details:

The College of DuPage is offering free English language learning classes at the Library. Develop your reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for work, education, and everyday communication.

Adult Services Staff Recommendations

Daisy Jones & The Six
it was amazing
Daisy Jones & The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
If you're looking for a historical fiction novel with a more contemporary feel, Daisy Jones and the Six is the book for you! Set in the 1970s, this novel, told in an interview format, delves into the lives of the members of the famous ba...
tagged: historical-fiction, courtney-r, adult-fiction, 1970s, and music
11/22/63
it was amazing
11/22/63
by Stephen King
If you could change the course of history, would you, no matter the cost? That’s the question Jake Epping must ask himself in this time-traveling thriller. When Jake’s friend Al shows him a portal back in time, he has one goal: to stop t...
tagged: historical-fiction, science-fiction, stephanie-h, alternate-history...
The Glass Hotel
really liked it
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
This is a twisty tale involving a bartender, her brother, her husband, a shipping executive, and a Ponzi scheme. To say any more would give away the intricacies of this book but I can say that it’s nothing like I expected it to be. As al...
tagged: stephanie-h, adult-fiction, literary-fiction, ghosts, isolation, an...
 
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