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Freedom to Read: Read for Your Rights

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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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A Tender Age

The True Meaning of Love

Under the Falls

The Unknown

God's Country

Adversary to the Villain

The Women in White

Delusional : A Michael Bennett Thriller

Daggerbound

Dreamland

The Boat House

Not a Word

Big Little Truths

The Castle in the Glen

Etna

When Lemons Give You Life

Meet Me in the Garden

Time Travel for Beginners

The Wild Beneath

Back for Blood: Never Whistle At Night part II

A Trade of Blood

Take What You Can

See You at the Sunset

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die Quietly

Alpha

The drama

Michael

Agatha Christie Murder is Easy

Dead man's wire

Fantasy life

The love that remains

Yes

Deep water

Amrum

Obsession

Murdoch mysteries. Season 19.

The Christophers

All you need is kill

Departures

Grantchester. The complete eleventh season

Patience. Season two

Pressure

Dan da dan. Season two

Omaha

In the grey

The paper. Season one

Calle Malaga = Malaga Street

Fuze

Seasons greetings from Cherry Lane ; Happy holidays from Cherry Lane ; Deck the halls from Cherry Lane

Kiss of the spider woman

The mastermind

I swear

Normal

Lee Cronin's The mummy

Animal farm

Is God is

Lupin the IIIrd : the movie. The immortal bloodline

Queen of the ring

The devil wears Prada 2

Mortal kombat II

Magic hour

Art from the garden : create 25 beautiful botanical projects

Children of Abraham : the 1,400-year history of Jewish-Muslim relations

AC Barbeque : the husky and handsome guide to grilling

Scandinavian everyday : vibrant, simple meals from Northern Europe

Handbook for the revolution : building a more perfect union for the twenty-first century

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

Hyperadaptive : rewiring the enterprise to become AI-native

The great book of chocolate : the chocolate lover's guide with more than 50 recipes

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

Spanglish : recipes & stories

Radical duke : how one aristocrat-- and the American Revolution-- transformed Britain

The plunge : maverick swimmers, an unlikely quest, and the transformative power of cold water

The place between our pains : a memoir of what joy can survive

Nature's echo : harnessing ancient feedback loops to heal a changing planet

A century of Hitchcock : the man, the myths, the legacy

Empire and liberty : the tied histories of two American landmarks

The first All-Star Game : Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the crossroads

Fashioning Hitchcock : stories behind the costumes from The Lodger to Marnie

All summer long : conversations with the Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE

The traveler : one man's quest for humanity from the South Seas to revolutionary Paris

What grows in weary lands : on Christian resilience

Force of nature : understanding evolution's deepest logic--and putting it to use

Scrap book

Just plain filthy : the story behind book banning's trial of the century

Lucky creatures

Starting from Paterson

What I made for dinner : a memoir

Autoimmunity & the good girls : how permission to put ourselves first has the power to keep us well

The Amalfi curse

Amity

Cage of Souls

Children of earth and sky

A dog's way home

Gentlemen of the road : a tale of adventure

Haven : a novel

In the distance

Last one at the party

The library of legends : a novel

Life's too short

Loot

Million mile road trip

My year abroad

The north line : a novel

On the Camino

Outlawed : a novel

The Paris novel

Remote control

Service model

A short walk through a wide world : a novel

Sky full of elephants

Small game : a novel

Things I wish I told my mother

This tender land : a novel

The view from Lake Como : a novel

Girl Juice

Look Back

My Favorite Thing is Monsters. Book one

Upgrade Soul

Woman, Life, Freedom

Snotgirl. Vol. 1

Search and Destroy

You & a Bike & a Road

Jim Henson's Tale of Sand

Tomie

Woman World

The Last Ronin

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Blue in Green

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration

Talk to My Back

My Brilliant Friend

Tongues. Book 1

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Buddha. Vol. 1

Ultimate X-Men. 1

Monica

Tokyo These Days. 1

Eight Billion Genies. Vol. 1

The Jellyfish

The Nice House on the Lake. Volume one

Y: The Last Man. Book one

20th Century Boys. Vol. 01

Public Domain. Vol. 1

In the Land of Simplicity

Do Admit!: The Mitford Sisters and Me

Shanghai Noon

Near Dark

No Country for Old Men

True Grit

The Homesman

Slow West

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Salvation

Bone Tomahawk

3:10 to Yuma

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

There Will Be Blood

Meek's Cutoff

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Django Unchained

Dances with Wolves

Lawrence of Arabia

Unforgiven

The Proposition

Serenity

El Mariachi

Brokeback Mountain

Wild Wild West

The Sisters Brothers

The Hateful Eight

Hell or High Water

Logan

Back to the Future: Part III

The Power of the Dog

Nope

Cowboys & Aliens

Bacurau

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Crazy Rich Asians

Bad Times at the El Royale

Macbeth

The Florida Project

Rules of the Game = La règle du jeu

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Grey Gardens

Knives Out

Howards End

The Witches of Eastwick

Murder by Death

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

The Favourite

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu = Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Green Knight

Hotel Artemis

Labyrinth

Something's Gotta Give

1408

Hotel Mumbai

Lost in Translation

Barton Fink

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