Readers' Services - Books, Movies and Music - Discover at Cook Memorial Public Library

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Follow us on Goodreads!

Follow Cook Memorial Public Library on Goodreads and find your next favorite book! The library staff posts reviews and rankings of books we recommend. Goodreads also is a handy tool for keeping track of what you have read. The service is free, and easy to join. Follow Cook Library by following this link: http://www.goodreads.com/CookLibrary

If you follow us, you will be entered to win a copy of the fabulous New York Times best-selling nonfiction book, "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' by Cheryl Strayed.

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Follow Us On Pinterest!

Are you a pinner? Come join the library on Pinterest, where you will find recommendations for books, movies and music, as well as other fun library things. You can find us here: http://pinterest.com/cooklib/

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Follow our blog!

Check out our new blog,
Read! Watch! Listen!
Stories come in different formats

The Fiction, Movies and Music staff share their thoughts and recommendations on books, movies and music!

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Featured Database

Novelist
Enter your library card number to use this one. You can look up your favorite authors or titles, or describe the type of books you like to read, and NoveList will provide a list of suggested titles with full text reviews and summaries.

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Welcome to Readers' Services

Readers' Services is dedicated to reading for enjoyment. We can make book suggestions and help you find something new based on books you’ve enjoyed. We’ll try to track down that elusive title or author or the next book in your favorite series.

If you are in a book discussion group or want to join one of ours, choose the Book Clubs tab. We can help you find discussion questions for many titles, offer suggestions for future selections, and provide lists of books that other clubs have found thought-provoking.

Make sure to check out upcoming author visits on this page, and stop by our Authors Out Loud page!

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Authors Coming to Your Library!

Jeff Shaara comes to Libertyville May 31!

We have a number of great authors coming to our libraries in the next few months, including Jeff Shaara, Will Schwalbe and Helene Wecker. Click here for more information!

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Staff Recommendations

Want to know what the library staff is reading?

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Our Favorite Books of 2012

The Fiction, Movies and Music staff and the Reference Staff have compiled their favorite books of 2012. We've broken them down by genre in our Read! Watch! Listen! blog here. A booklet of our picks is available at the reference desk.

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National Book Critics Circle Awards

The National Book Critics Circle Awards for the publishing year 2012 have been announced. The fiction award went to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. The Nonfiction award went to Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon. Robert A. Caro's fourth volume in his Lyndon Johnson study, The Passage of Power, won for biography. The poetry prize went to Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D.A. Powell. We have all four books in our catalog.

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