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If you love audiobooks or even if you are just discovering them, the SYNC audiobook program provides interesting titles with professional narration.

This program is targeted toward teens, but anyone over 13 years old can access. 

Each week the SYNC program provides two thematically paired audiobooks for checkout and use with the Sora app. Sora is the student reading app from Overdrive. 

Once the titles have been downloaded to your shelf in Sora, you can listen to them again and again.

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Here's what DPPL's Readers' Advisory staff is reading this month, and suggest you do as well!

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Hey, Kiddos! It's time for DPPL Storytime!

This week, Miss Zoe will present a felt story based on White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker.

Don't forget, you can follow us on Facebook or Instagram to see more virtual programming like this.

National Poetry Day was founded in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate the art of poetry and its impact on our lives. This year, the Des Plaines Library will be celebrating National Poetry Day by inviting our staff to read some of their favorite poems. These videos will be shared on our Facebook, Instagram and TikTok pages, and you can also watch them in the player below:

 

On this episode, Charlie, Angelo, Nina and Maureen discuss Jennette McCurdy's bestselling memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, as well as some other recently-released and revelatory celebrity autobiographies and documentaries.

(Please note: this episode does contain discussions of traumatic childhood events and abusive behavior.)

Listen to their conversation in the player below:

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