Events

Please join us online where we will discuss Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. This selection is available for check out at West Pullman Branch. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling…

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect…

Join the Beverly Branch for an exciting book discussion, Identity by Nora Roberts. This book explores one man's ice-cold malice and one woman's fight to claim her life.

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Join the Rogers Park Branch as we read and discuss Marjane Satrapi's Woman, Life, Freedom.

"Marjane Satrapi brings together a sweeping anthology of political essays in comics form that takes its title from the protest chant of the feminist…

Please join us for a lively discussion of our latest book title. The discussion will take place at Palermo's of 63rd Pizza and Restaurant, 3751 W 63rd St, Chicago, IL.

Copies of the book are available through our website or by…

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect…

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Únete a nuestro club de lectura para adultos y descubre No siempre es un valle de lágrimas de Pascuala Herrera. Una conmovedora historia sobre la resiliencia y el poder de la esperanza.

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Join our book club for a discussion of a different book each month. Our book this month is Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad.An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood…

A reading social for kids. Let’s take turns reading, laughing and talking about beginning reader books such as King and Kayla and Princess in Black, followed by a related activity.

For kids 7 to 10.

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Join us once a month to talk about books! Discuss what you've been reading recently and get recommendations from your peers and YOUmedia librarians. Snacks will be provided!

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Join Hall Branch for a discussion of Killers of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn. 

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum,…

Come join the South Shore Branch for a virtual book discussion of Jawbone by Monica Ojeda.

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of…

Join West Belmont Branch for a discussion of The Unsinkable Greta James, a moving story about a 30-something rock star and her father attempting to enjoy an Alaskan cruise in the wake of the sudden death of their…

Please join the Richard J Daley Library in Bridgeport for a book discussion of Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

Tokarczuk's captivating novel, following her renowned Flights (2018), opens with narrator…

Please join us for a lively discussion of Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize Winning story, long listed for the National Book Award in Fiction.

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt…

Join West Loop Library staff at Time Out Market to discuss "Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty.

Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless…

This month the Sulzer Regional Library will be reading Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots.

Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job.  But when she finally gets a…

Join us for our monthly Books and Brews book discussion. For March, join West Town librarians and others in our community to discuss Bottoms up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley.

Place a hold or pick up a copy of the book at the West…

Logan Square's new monthly book discussion 'Cook The Book' (meeting on the last Tuesday of each month) will explore the world of food found in cookbooks classics & new. We'll gather in the community room to enjoy the fruits of our labor.

In this small group program for kids, we read together and practice our early literacy skills.

We read books such as Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems, Fox the Tiger by Corey R. Tabor and Ty's Travels by Kelly…