The Mature Reader — April 2024
Loyalty Day Parade

Come join us at the Loyalty Day Parade on Sunday, May 5! The parade starts at 2 PM.
 
Loyalty Day Parade

Celebrating One Year of Senior Coffee Breaks!
 
This past Spring we revamped our Senior Coffee with a brand new name and format! It's now called Senior Coffee Breaks. We have played Bingo and classic TV Game Shows. We have learned about navigating Medicare, where to find local community resources and discounts for seniors, and how to stay youthful at any age… and we are only getting started!
 
Senior Coffee Breaks
Seniors
Thursday, May 2
10:30 AM - 12 PM
Meeting Room AB
 
Take your mid-morning break at the library with discussion, socializing, and, of course, plenty of coffee! Each coffee break will have a short talk or activity to get us started. This month's activity is DIY Bug Repellent Luminaries with Kelli Jean. Get all the supplies to make an outdoor mason jar luminaries with natural bug repellents like citronella, eucalyptus, lemon, and bay leaves. 
 
Registration encouraged, now open.
 
OverDrive / Libby News: The Next Big Library Read
Available 5/9-5/23 with no holds or waitlists
 
Readers also have a chance to win a BLR prize pack including Beats Headphones, a Stanley French Press Travel Mug, a copy of Wild New World, and 50 trees planted in their honor through the Arbor Day Foundation! Simply use #biglibraryread on social media from May 9-23 to enter! Winners will be selected on May 23, 2024.
 

New in Audiobook
 
George Harrison : The Reluctant Beatle
by Philip Norman

Based on exhaustive research and access to inside sources, the longtime Beatles biographer returns with a revealing portrait of George Harrison, long known as the most mysterious and misunderstood member of the group. Illustrations.
UFO : The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—And Out There
by Garrett M. Graff

This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II
by Daniel James Brown

Draws on extensive interviews with the families of four soldiers to chronicle the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe while their parents were forced to surrender their homes and submit to life in concentration camps on American soil
New Lenox Public Library District
120 Veterans Pkwy
New Lenox, Illinois 60451
(815) 485-2605
https://www.newlenoxlibrary.org/