WPL Book Blog
Hispanic Heritage Month – Books From Mexico
To continue with our focus on Hispanic books and authors, here are a few well known (and not-so-well-known) books from Mexico. Click on a cover or a title to place a hold! Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel FICTION ESQUIVEL “Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico […]
Hispanic Heritage Month
Friday, September 15th marked the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month – a time to come together to celebrate the different traditions and achievements of Hispanic Americans. The Waukegan Public Library will be hosting multiple events to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, including a Loteria night, a traditional Mexican dance class, and our popular sugar skull […]
Read Harder 2017: Poetry in Translation (No Love Poems Allowed!)
This week’s Read Harder challenge is another doozy: Read a collection of poetry in translation, and it has to be about a subject other than love! To help you on your way, we dug deep into the catalog and found a few titles for you to try. Click on a cover to place a hold! […]
Indie Next List: August 2017
Here are just some of the titles selected for the August 2017 Indie Next List! Click on a cover to place a hold, and click here to view the list in its entirety. If you see a book on the list that we don’t already own, you can make a purchase suggestion! […]
Library Reads: August 2017
Here are the featured titles from the August edition of the Library Reads list! Click on a cover to place a hold! Happy reading! — Katie, Adult Reference Save
Read Harder 2017: Collection of Stories by a Female Author
For readers who are still following along with the Read Harder Challenge of 2o17, we have just a few more challenges to cover here on the blog! This week, the challenge is to read a collection of stories by a female author. Click on a title or a cover image below to place a hold! […]
September 11th – A Reading List
It’s hard to believe, but today marks the 16th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers. As with many difficult issues, sometimes the best way to understand is to read about it, and so we’ve pulled together a short reading list. Click on a cover to place a hold, and for a longer reading […]
Indie Next List: July 2017
Here are just some of the titles selected for the July 2017 Indie Next List! Click on a cover to place a hold, and click here to view the list in its entirety. If you see a book on the list that we don’t already own, you can make a purchase suggestion! […]
Library Reads: July 2017
Here are the featured titles from the July edition of the Library Reads list! Click on a cover for more information and to place a hold! Happy reading! —Katie, Adult Reference Save
Summer Reading Program Favorites
Our Summer Reading Program for adults and teens wrapped up on August 19th, and I must say, this has been one of our most successful reading programs to date! We had approximately 250 people sign up, and we had 650 raffle entries submitted over the course of the summer! That’s 650 books read by our […]