Adult Blog Entries
Introducing Palace Project: A New App for eBooks and Audiobooks
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We're happy to announce our newest digital reading and listening app, Palace Project. Learn more about this new service.
HPL Wrapped 2025: Lombard's Most Borrowed Books
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It's that time of year again! Take a look at the most-borrowed books and movies of the year.
Adult Winter Reading BINGO 2025
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It's time to cozy up with some good books this winter! We're bringing back the Adult Winter Reading BINGO Challenge for 2025 with new challenges and prizes.
HPL Staff Recommends: Books We Loved 2025
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From tried-and-true classics to under-the-radar new releases, here are our favorite books we read in 2025.
Upcoming Events
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Helen Plum Library
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Adult Library Services
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Enjoy a vibrant mixed media art exhibit by mother-daughter duo Dixie Lee Hadley and Darlene "Weeze" Edwards on the 2nd Floor of the Library.
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Computer Lab
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Technology Classes
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Have a tech question? Join us for a Tech Help session. Bring your questions and your device! Registration is required.
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Studio 411
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Fiber art crafters including cross stitchers, knitters, and crocheters are invited to join this drop-in social group to work on individual projects or learn from their peers.
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Helen Plum Library
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Studio 411
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Adult,
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Get creative during Studio 411 Drop-in Hours. Use the makerspace equipment to sew, laser cut, record a podcast, customize with Cricut, and more!
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Helen Plum Library
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Computer Lab
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Adult
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Technology Classes
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Learn the ins and outs of creating pivot tables, sorting files, and filtering Excel spreadsheets.
Adult Services Staff Recommendations
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...
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...
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...
