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Read, Watch & Listen: Miner Recs October 2024
Here's what DPPL's Readers' Advisory staff recommends you read, watch, or listen to this month!
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Miner Recs Newsletters & Podcasts
Here's what DPPL's Readers' Advisory staff recommends you read, watch, or listen to this month!
Continue Reading "Read, Watch & Listen: Miner Recs October 2024" →
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Calling all ghosts and ghouls! Do you like to write?
Then creep your way into our Wicked Good Writing Contest!
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Illinois Libraries Present and Erika Sánchez, award-winning author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Cynthia Pelayo.
Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award finalist, and Tomás Rivera Award winner. Recognized by Time as one of the best YA novels of all time, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter has also been adapted for the stage at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and is being made into a film directed by America Ferrera.
(This program originally aired over Zoom on October 9, 2024 and will be available until October 24, 2024.)
Spotlight
This October 14th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a time where we celebrate and honor the complex histories and many cultures of the Indigenous people of the United States.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes Native Americans as the original inhabitants of the land.
See the official Land Acknowledgement from the Forest Preserves of Cook County HERE.
As Indigenous nations still face inequity and discrimination, we all must share the duty of educating ourselves and continuing the spirit of care and community.
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We open at 9:00am today.