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Latest News and New Services

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Preview the New Catalog

A redesigned library catalog is launching this August, and a preview is now available to help you discover a smarter way to search, browse, and find a favorite read.

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Freedom to Read: Read for Your Rights

Every time you visit the library, you take part in something powerful: the freedom to read!

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Village Community Connections Center and Library South Branch Moving to 1601 E. Algonquin Rd.

The Village of Mount Prospect purchased a building at 1601 E. Algonquin Rd. to expand the Community Connections Center that houses the Human Services Department and Mount Prospect Public Library South Branch.

August-September 2026 Newsletter.

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Country People

Sea of Charms

The Country Road Murders

This Changes Everything

Cool Machine

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Dead Men Don't Play Fetch

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The Romance Revival

Vera Stein is Fine

Meet Me in Paris

Getting Away with Murder

The Subtle Pleasures of Indiscretion

The Half Life

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Ransom

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Fabulous Bodies

Killer Vibes

Falling Into You

It Will Come Back To You

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Crime 101

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The Complete First Season

Ready or Not 2 : Here I Come

It Was Just an Accident [Persian]

They Will Kill You

Doctor Who. Season Two.

You, Me & Tuscany

You. The Complete Fifth Season

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She Dances

Nirvanna : The Band, the Show, the Movie

The Jane Mysteries : A Deadly Prescription

A Magnificent Life

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Death in Paradise. Season Fifteen

Dark Winds. Season 4.

Migrant heart : essays about things I can't forget

The new vegetarian : 500+ recipes for a lifetime of great meals.

Forest of the sea : the remarkable life and imperiled future of kelp

Art from the garden : create 25 beautiful botanical projects

This is me : a reckoning

The last of the old breed : an oral history of the final Marines from World War II

Bad religion, good news : an honest guide for the spiritually disappointed

The tribe and I have spoken : the definitive (unofficial) lore and legacy from the game's smartest surviving loser

Dig in! : over 100 easy, delicious, and stress-free recipes to make on repeat

Ammazza! : culinary adventures from New York to Italy and back again

Infinite awakening : a guide to nondual wisdom and the pathless path

The Martha way : essential principles for mastering home and living

A bird's IQ : innovation, intelligence, and problem solving in the avian world

The echoing universe : how radio astronomy helps us see the invisible cosmos

A perfect coincidence : the extraordinary friendship and astonishing deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

God forgives, brothers don't : the long march of military education and the making of American manhood

Renaissance of a boss : notes from a creative reawakening

Enter the villa : the (unauthorized) reality behind Love Island

Fight ready : an MMA coach's guide to losing weight, getting strong, and kicking ass

Here for all the reasons : why we watch The Bachelor

Evidence of the extraordinary : discoveries from the series The proof is out there

Birth vibes : stories and strategies for an empowered birth

Dekonstructing the Kardashians : a new media manifesto

Rookie : my public, private and secret life

How to rule the world : an education in power at Stanford University

Last Summer on State Street

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An unconventional illustrated history of New York City

Babel: An Arcane History

Loveboat, Taipei

Roaming

The City We Became

The White Album

Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

A Gentleman in Moscow

Chicken with Plums

The Stolen Queen

The Poet X

The Great Believers

Sleepless in Dubai

The House on Mango Street

The Devil in the White City

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories

Midnight's Children

After Dark

The Joy Luck Club

The Property

The Sun is Also a Star

Six of Crows

Blackouts

The Priory of the Orange Tree

The Strange Library

True Biz

Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats its Own Leg

Death in the Clouds

Art after Stonewall: 1969-1989

House of Leaves

Blind Spot

American Dirt

One for My Enemy

Katabasis

Lost Gods

Paperbacks from Hell: The twisted history of '70s and '80s horror fiction

The Fifth Season

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

City of Saints and Madmen

Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between heaven and hell in contemporary Japanese art

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Black Leopard, Red Wold

The River Has Roots

The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again

Clark and Division

Blk Art: the audacious legacy of black artists and models in western art

The Sun and the Void

Diane Arbus: Documents

The Final Strife

Ninth House

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Lagoon

The Eye of the World

Lost in Translation

Una Noche

Philomena

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Trip to Italy

Wild

Grandma

Easy Rider

Into the Wild

The Bucket List

In Bruges

Encounters at the End of the World

The Way Back

Little Miss Sunshine

Two for the Road

The Way

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Almost Famous

Touching the Void

Thelma & Louise

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Under the Tuscan Sun

The Straight Story

Central Station

Midnight in Paris

Green Book

Nomadland

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

20 days in Mariupol

All the beauty and the bloodshed

American movie

Amy

Dear Zachary : a letter to a son about his father

Four daughters

Free solo

Grizzly man

I am not your negro

Kedi

Man on wire

Minding the gap

Original cast album, Company

Soundtrack to a coup d'etat

Stop making sense

Stories we tell

The act of killing

The kingdom of dreams and madness

The mole agent

The September issue

Three identical strangers

Tower

Visages villages = Faces places

When we were kings

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