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Perry Nelson

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August 30, 2023

Library Art: View from McCormick

Like many of the works in the library’s permanent art collection, View from McCormick was a donation from our community, and this one has stronger connections to our community than most.

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Andrew Hazard

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June 13, 2023

Beginner's Guide to Mystery Fiction

Stories about uncovering hidden crimes (with or without supernatural assistance) go back a long way in many cultures. A Sophocles play from about 425 BCE–Oedipus the King–was an early example.

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Perry Nelson

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March 27, 2023

Indigenous People in Chicagoland

Skokie Public Library is built on the homeland and trading ground of many Native American people and tribes, including the Council of Three Fires (the Ojibwe, the Potawatomi, and the Odawa), and many other nations, including the Menominee, the Ho-

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Skokie Advisory Staff

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August 16, 2022

Beginner's Guide to Horror Fiction

Autumn is often called the spooky season, and people naturally gravitate toward reading horror novels during the fall. I contend that horror should be read year round and my coworker Liz agrees!

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Skokie Advisory Staff

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October 8, 2020

Beginner's Guide to Thrillers

When I was a young adult, I was mostly all about movies. The only books I read were the Sweet Valley High series. My English-lit-major mother tried to introduce other types of books, to no avail.

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Skokie Advisory Staff

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February 13, 2020

Beginner's Guide to Romance Books

I’m not going to lie—I used to roll my eyes at the thought of reading romance. I thought it was all fluff and cheesy innuendos without any substance (shirtless Fabio, anyone?). Many friends and colleagues felt otherwise, and they weren’t alone.

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Jane Hanna

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April 7, 2017

Bookmobile 60th Anniversary

Sixty years ago, on Tuesday, November 11, 1957 at 10 am, the Skokie Public Library bookmobile made its first scheduled stop at Estes and Leclaire Avenues with a load of roughly 2,500 “adult and juvenile titles.”
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