by Scotto Moore Isobel is the undisputed “Queen of Sparkle Dungeon” largely due to her diva-spellcasting. . . That is: in this disco-themed, VR game-world, spells are cast and enemies vanquished via the singing of complex vocal tones and rhythms. Isobel’s aptitude and standing at the top of the leaderboard earn her a recruitment call from …
Join us for the 10th Annual ATLAS Multi-Library Geocaching Event! All library patrons are invited to use clues and geographic coordinates to find hidden “geocaches” at numerous participating area libraries. Due to Covid-19 we will continue to go virtual again. For each listed geocache you discover, you earn a chance to win a $25 Gift …
Pick up a sketchbook from the Reference Desk to participate in our Sketchbook Project. All sketchbooks will be scanned and archived to build a collection of Blue Island Public Library artists’ sketchbooks. A link to the sketchbooks will appear once we start receiving them.
by Min Jin Lee I recently read the book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. It’s a multigenerational story focusing on the life of a Korean woman, Sunja. Sunja grows up in the period of Japanese occupation in Korea and paints life in the time in great detail. It also talks about the lives of her …
by Dan Jones As someone who often thought, through my formative years, that I was born in the wrong age, and should have been allowed to grow up swinging a sword or war-hammer and charging another armored idiot on horseback with a shield and a lance, Dan Jones’ Power and Thrones was both an engrossing …
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By Becky Chambers Simple, quiet little story in which not much happens, but satisfying like a good dessert. In some far distant future/planet humans live in balance with nature after all machines and robots took into their heads to leave the human world and live apart in the wilderness. Its not clear how this utopian …
Blue Island Public Library is proud to announce the award of $10,000 in funding through the ALA to assist in bringing humanities programming to the Blue Island community. Check our events calendar this summer for outreach activities to populations throughout Blue Island! Thank you to the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association …
RESCHEDULED!!! Calling local artists – what does the Calumet Region mean to you, and what does Calumet Heritage look like in paint and ink and canvas and paper? Submit your work to hang in the Blue Island Public Library through the month of July. Submissions due by 5PM, June 17. – All work must be …
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