Adult Blog Entries
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.
Boundless App To Be Discontinued
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Learn more about when the Boundless app will be discontinued and what's coming next.
Upcoming Events
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Library Branch:
Helen Plum Library
Room:
Studio 411
Age Group:
Adult,
Seniors
Program Type:
Maker
Event Details:
Choose between four projects on a holiday-themed craft menu to create. Materials and instructions will be provided. One project per person.
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Helen Plum Library
Room:
Adult Library Services
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Adult,
Seniors
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From Sat, Dec 6 through Fri, Jan 9, enjoy a winter photography exhibit by Dan Pollack. The beauty of the season is captured in these stunning photographs, viewable on the 2nd Floor during Library open hours.
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Jingle Bell Jubilee
2:00pm–6:00pm
Youth,
Birth to Preschool,
Elementary School,
Middle School,
High School,
Adult,
Seniors
Library Branch:
Helen Plum Library
Age Group:
Youth,
Birth to Preschool,
Elementary School,
Middle School,
High School,
Adult,
Seniors
Event Details:
Get in the Jubilee spirit at the Library – we’re just a trolley ride away! We’ll have a wintery photo op, holiday lights glasses for all ages (while supplies last), a scavenger hunt, and crafts for kids.
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Library Branch:
Helen Plum Library
Room:
Computer Lab
Age Group:
Adult
Program Type:
Technology Classes
Registration Required
Event Details:
Explore what ChatGPT is and learn some practical applications for using it successfully.
This event is in the "Adult" group
This event is in the "Seniors" group
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!
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...
