Books & Media
Searching for something to read, listen to or watch_ We will be happy to help find material to meet your interest. In addition, try our online services that offer assistance, recommendations and online reading opportunities for our patrons.
Check the listing of Audio Visual materials to see new additions.
Online Book Clubs
Join an Online Book Club and start receiving books in your daily e-mail. Monday through Friday we’ll deliver a five-minute selection from a book. After emailing two or three complete chapters, we’ll start a new book. Just give us your e-mail address and start reading tomorrow. If you like a book, you can finish it at our library.
Sign up for one or all of our six online book clubs: Fiction, Non-fiction, Business, Audio, Teen and Good News.
Book Discussion Groups
The library has openings in three adult book discussion groups. Please call the library for meeting times and current book selections at 708.366.5205 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 708.366.5205 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Recommended titles for book discussion groups include:
* The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
* A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
* All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
* Palace Walk by Najib Mahfouz
* Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
* The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
* Present Value by Sabin Willett
* The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
* Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
* The Quiet American by Graham Greene
* The Human Stain by Phillip Roth
* The Hours by Michael Cunningham
* Empire Falls by Richard Russo
* Atonement by Ian McEwan
* Moonstone by Wilke Collins
* The Dubliners by James Joyce
* The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
* Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
* Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
* Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
* My Antonia by Willa Cather
* The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
* Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
* The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
* Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
All of these titles can be found at the Library.
Staff Book Reviews
Staff have selected and reviewed some of their favorite picks.
Adults
* Fall 2004 Picks
* Spring 2004 Picks
* Winter 2003 Picks
* Fall 2003 Picks
Young Adults
* Fall 2004 Picks
* Spring 2004 Picks
* Winter 2003 Picks
* Fall 2003 Picks
* Summer 2003 Picks
Children’s
* Spring 2004 – Books Boys Really Like: 4th-6th Grade
* Fall 2003 Picks