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Here at the Des Plaines Public Library Reader Services department, we encourage your group to read whichever book they would like at any given time.

We understand each book group has a unique path that it charts from title to title.

We work hard to acquire multiple copies of a book that a group has chosen instead of making it choose from a predetermined, and limited, set of titles

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Last year my family spent 10 days in various stores to get their back to school supplies and fashion set.

That's alot of time in a store instead of the park. What a headache!

There has to be a better way- and I'm determined this year will be different.

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