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The Main Library is closed due to an unexpected power outage. The library expects to reopen Thursday, February 20.
FanFest, Saturday, February 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For all ages.
Library Mini Golf Fundraiser, for all ages. Saturday, March 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Brought to you by the Mount Prospect Public Library Foundation.
Our Favorite Children's Books of 2024
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Resources for Tax Season

The filing deadline to submit 2024 tax returns and pay tax owed or to request an extension is Tuesday, April 15, 2025. The library has many resources and commonly used state and federal tax forms available for patrons, and staff can assist with printing additional forms as needed.

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Free Printing and Copying

Free printing and copying credits added to Mount Prospect Public Library accounts reset annually. As of January 1, cardholders in good standing will have credits for 200 pages of black and white printing and copying, or 80 pages of color printing and copying, or a combination of black and white and color. Printing and copying can be done at…

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New Catalog

The Mount Prospect Public Library has joined CCS (Cooperative Computer Services), a group of over 30 area libraries that share an online catalog! You can find more information and Frequently Asked Questions on our Updates page.

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Our Staff Recommends…

  • New Fiction in February
  • New Movies & TV in February
  • New Nonfiction in February
  • Celebrating Black Voices
  • Black Visual Artists
  • Anti-Racism
  • Lighthearted or Happy
  • Fantasy Films

New Fiction in February

Back After This
Battle Mountain
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Blood Ties
Bonded in Death
Close Your Eyes and Count to 10
Deep End
A Dragon of Black Glass
Famous Last Words
Harlem Rhapsody
Isola
A Killing Cold
Last Twilight in Paris
Midnight Black
Nemesis
Open Season
Queens of Crime
Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets
Show Don't Tell
Three Days in June
We all Live Here

2025 Movie Bingo: Fantasy

The Boy And The Heron
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Unicorn Wars
The Spine of Night
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Nine Days
Hellboy
Kimi no na wa = Your Name
Princess Mononoke
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Age of Adaline
Into The Woods
47 Ronin
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Maleficent
Time Bandits
The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
Conan the Barbarian
Trollhunter
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Forbidden Kingdom
Stardust
Constantine
The Mask
Big Fish
Being John Malkovich
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Highlander
Edward Scissorhands
Army of Darkness
A Monster Calls
Labyrinth
The Green Mile
The Shape of Water
The Princess Bride

New Nonfiction in February

Before Elvis : the prehistory of rock 'n' roll
The bonus family handbook : the definitive guide to co-parenting and creating stronger families
Bright shining : how grace changes everything
Crush your money goals : 25 smart money habits to save, invest, and fast-track your financial freedom
Cult following : the extreme sects that capture our imaginations--and take over our lives
The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever
Do you still talk to grandma? : when the problematic people in our lives are the ones we love
The dreamcatcher in the wry
Falling in love at the movies : rom-coms from the screwball era to today
The food and feasts of the Apostle Paul : inside the early church--with menus and recipes
Good nature : why seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching plants is good for our health
The illusionist : the true story of the man who fooled Hitler
I'm sorry for my loss : an urgent examination of reproductive care in America
Long Live : the definitive guide to the folklore and fandom of Taylor Swift
Money for couples : no more stress, no more fights, just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together
My Pisces heart : a Black immigrant's search for home across four continents
Pan y dulce : the Latin American baking book
The secret history of the rape kit : a true crime story
Sisters in science : how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history
Star-spangled Jesus : leaving Christian nationalism and finding a true faith
The thinking heart : essays on Israel and Palestine
A town without time : Gay Talese's New York
The Victorians and the Holy Land : adventurers, tourists, and archaeologists in the lands of the Bible
Zahav home : cooking for friends & family

New Movies & TV in February

Absolution
Friends & family Christmas
Hallmark Channel 2-movie collection. Falling in love in Niagara ; A whitewater romance.
Here
The return
Rumours
Saturday night
Smile 2
The substance
Thelma
Things will be different
Venom. The last dance
Vienna blood. Season 4
When calls the heart. Season 11.

Celebrating Black Voices

Beloved
Harlem Shuffle
Let Us Descend
Between the World and Me
The Late Americans
Last Summer on State Street
Come and Get It
The Sweetness of Water
The Vanishing Half
People Person
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Here For It, or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
The Violin Conspiracy
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
Bluebird, Bluebird
Wow, No Thank You: Essays
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Hell of a Book
The Reformatory
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Take My Hand
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Everything Inside: Stories
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
It's Not All Downhill from Here
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
We Lie Here
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Homegoing
The Life of Herod the Great
One of Us Knows
All the Sinners Bleed
Great Expectations
James
Blackheart Man

2025 Book Bingo: Lighthearted or Happy

Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond
Big Chicas Don't Cry
Big Gay Wedding
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
The Bookshop Sisterhood
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Dial A for Aunties
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Harry's Trees
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The House in the Cerulean Sea
How to Age Disgracefully
I Hope This Finds You Well
Jackpot Summer
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
The Life Impossible
Love and Hot Chicken
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Marrying the Ketchups
My Boyfriend is a Bear
My Mother Cursed My Name
Nosy Neighbors
Project Hail Mary
Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
The Switch
A Thousand Miles to Graceland
Tired Ladies Take a Stand
Unlikely Animals
Quietly Hostile: Essays
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

Black Visual Artists

Love & justice : a journey of empowerment, activism, and embracing Black beauty
African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century
Eye dreaming : photographs by Anthony Barboza
Young, gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Kehinde Wiley : a new republic
The Obama portraits
In the Black fantastic
Faith Ringgold : American people
Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful
The new black vanguard : photography between art and fashion
Black ivy : a revolt in style
Black Hollywood : reimagining iconic movie moments
Black artists in America : from the Great Depression to civil rights
I too sing America : the Harlem Renaissance at 100
Black art : a cultural history
The art of Winold Reiss : an immigrant modernist
Invisible men : the trailblazing Black artists of comic books
We are here : visionaries of color transforming the art world
Nonconformers : a new history of self taught artists
Bronzeville nights : on the town in Chicago's Black metropolis

Anti-Racism

How to be an antiracist
We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival
Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
And still I rise : Black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology
Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
Between the world and me
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? : and other conversations about race
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir
So you want to talk about race
The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
The devil you know : a Black power manifesto
Anti racist ally : an introduction to action & activism
Grieving while Black : an antiracist take on oppression and sorrow
Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
You'll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism
This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism
Against civility : the hidden racism in our obsession with civility
Raceless : in search of family, identity, and the truth about where I belong
Fear of black consciousness / Lewis R. Gordon.
The diversity gap : where good intentions meet true cultural change / Bethaney Wilkinson.
Do better : spiritual activism for fighting and healing from white supremacy / Rachel Ricketts.
The conversation : how seeking and speaking the truth about racism can radically transform individuals and organizations : a science-based approach / Robert Livingston.

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