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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 Nonfiction in April
  • New Fiction in March
  • New Movies & TV in March
  • Celebrating Arab American Voices
  • Novel in Verse or Poetry
  • Featuring Science or Nature
  • Action or Adventure Films
  • Movies About Natural or Unnatural Disasters

New Fiction in March

Sunrise On the Reaping : A Hunger Games Novel
Ward D
Far From Home
High Tea and Misdemeanors
The Jackal's Mistress
Kills Well With Others
The Summer Guests
Beach Vibes
One Good Thing
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave
Saltwater
The Paris Express
Wild dark shore
The Girl from Greenwich Street
Twist
Lethal Prey
A Map To Paradise
The Story She Left Behind

New Nonfiction in April

Seven social movements that changed America
Hope I get old before I die : why rock stars never retire
One day, everyone will have always been against this
Propaganda girls : the secret war of the women in the OSS
Sucker punch : essays
When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance
Mellon vs. Churchill : the untold story of treasury titans at war
World eaters : how venture capital is cannibalizing the economy
What your body knows about happiness : how to use your body to change your mind
These strange new minds : how AI learned to talk and what it means
Booster shots : the urgent lessons of measles and the uncertain future of children's health
Money, lies, and God : inside the movement to destroy American democracy
Jesus wept : seven popes and the battle for the soul of the Catholic Church
The man nobody killed : life, death, and art in Michael Stewart's New York
Murder the truth : fear, the First Amendment, and a secret campaign to protect the powerful
On air : the triumph and tumult of NPR
Warbody : a Marine sniper and the hidden violence of modern warfare
The fishwife cookbook : delightful tinned fish recipes for every occasion
The crossing : El Paso, the Southwest, and America's forgotten origin story
Jane Austen's bookshelf : a rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend
Naples 1944 : the devil's paradise at war
We tell ourselves stories : Joan Didion and the American dream machine
The art of uncertainty : how to navigate chance, ignorance, risk and luck
Thirty below : the harrowing and heroic story of the first all-women's ascent of Denali
No less strange or wonderful : essays in curiosity
What's a Christian, anyway? : finding our way in an age of confusion and corruption
Justice abandoned : how the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution and enabled mass incarceration
The last manager : how Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball

New Movies & TV in March

Across the river and into the trees
Azrael
Funny woman. Season two
In the summers
Juror #2
Legend of the lost locket ; For love and honey ; Pearl in paradise.
Miss Scarlet. Season five
Nosferatu
Oh, Canada
The Order
5-Sep
Sometimes I think about dying
V/H/S/Beyond
Werewolves
Wicked. Part I

Celebrating Arab American Voices

Against the Loveless World
Between Two Moons
The Coin
Abbott
Arabs of Chicagoland
Evil Eye
Dearborn: Stories
The wild fox of Yemen: Poems
What Strange Paradise
Scorched Grace
The Stardust Thief
The Beauty of Your Face
You Exist Too Much
Love is an Ex-Country: A Memoir
The Other Americans
Salt Houses
Rouge
The Thirty Names of Night
Bride of the Sea
Amreekiya
A Pure Heart
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Behind You is the Sea
Towelhead
Dimiter
Throne of the Crescent Moon
Lifted by the Great Nothing
The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir
The Twenty-Ninth Year: Poems
Empire of Lies
River Spirit
The Woman Upstairs

2025 Movie Bingo: Action or Adventure

John Wick
Mad Max. Fury road
Baby Driver
Stardust
Shoot 'Em Up
Crank
Drive
Dredd
Fu Chou : Vengeance
Haywire
Shi Mian Mai Fu = House of Flying Daggers
Gong Fu = Kung Fu Hustle
The Raid : Redemption
Unleashed
Atomic Blonde
Ready PlayerOne
Hobbs & Shaw
Greenland
Nobody
The Northman
Prey
Sisu
Monkey Man
Boy Kills World
The Fall Guy
Kill
District B13
Fantastic Mr. Fox

2025 Book Bingo: Novel in Verse or Poetry

1919: Poems
Eye Level: Poems
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
Pilgrim Bell: Poems
Black Girl, Call Home
Sharp Teeth
Soft Science
American Melancholy: Poems
Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
An American Sunrise: Poems
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love
Song of My Softening
Triangles
The Symmetry of Fish
So to Speak
Charlotte
So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018
Blue Horses
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
Blue in Green
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
Trickster Feminism
Crush
The Odyssey
Deaf Republic: Poems
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992
Cutlish
Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
Ghost Of

2025 Book Bingo: Featuring Science or Nature

The Canopy Keepers
The Overstory
All Rhodes Lead Here
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Machine
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
The Berry Pickers
Birds of Maine
The Wood at Midwinter
Braiding Sweetgrass
The Calculating Stars
Real Americans
The Covenant of Water
Genesis
H is for Hawk
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us
Love on the Brain
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
North Woods
Our Wives under the Sea
The River
Second Tide's the Charm
The Seed Keeper
The Seeds: A Graphic Tale in Four Acts
Speak
State of Wonder
The Terror
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
What Moves the Dead
The History of Bees
Annihilation
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

2025 Movie Bingo: Natural or Unnatural Disasters

9/11
Adrift
After Earth
The Wave
Contagion
Crawl
The Day After
The Day After Tomorrow
Deepwater Horizon
The Disaster Artist
Elemental : Reimagine Wildfire
Geostorm
Greenland
The Happening
How to Survive A Plague
The Impossible
Infinite Storm
Killer Floods
Miracle Mile
Moonfall
The Burning Sea
Only the Brave
Outbreak
Emergency Declaration
Pompeii: The Last Day
The Quake
Afire
Salt and Fire
San Andreas
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Sherpa
Twisters
Vertical Limit
It's a Disaster
Chernobyl Diaries
The Birds
Melancholia
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The Cabin In The Woods
Train to Busan
Snakes On A Plane

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