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The Best Books This Winter

If you need some reading suggestions or gift ideas for yourself or someone else this winter, check out our list of new favorite titles. With everything from holiday romance to cozy mysteries to celebrity biographies, there’s something for everyone. All titles are linked to our catalog, but feel free...

Stay Tuned for Lake Forest Reads 2025

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3D Print Assistive Tools

Request assistive tools to be 3D printed at the Digital Media Lab. Our print models are provided by Makers Making Change. Learn more....

Give the Gift of Your Library

Discover all the ways the Library helps you with your winter holidays....

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Treemendous Library Card Campaign: LOG ON

Season 1 was ROOT. Season 2 is LOG ON! Sometimes you can’t get to the Library building, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use your Library! That’s why the arboreal theme for our second installment of “5 Seasons of Library Card Love & Prize Drawings” is LOG ON! This season we are happy to celebra...

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Friends Winter Quarterly 2024–2025

Book Sale Highlights The Friends would like to thank the 2,610 shoppers who visited the 48th Annual Book Sale last September. We had a record 2,436 sales and numerous new Friends memberships resulting in $120,545.13 total revenue! The book sale was possible thanks to ... 57 Friends book sor...

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated each November. It started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions made by Native Americans and has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. Illinois legislators enacted an ...

Listen with Playaways

The Library has a great selection of audiobooks for your listening pleasure. We have the traditional audiobooks on CDs, but we also have another way to listen to books that you may not know about: Playaways! Playaways are small devices with pre-loaded audiobooks that you can plug your headphones int...

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Birds of a Feather Read Together Winter Reading 2024–25

Gather your flock and strengthen good reading habits. We're reading together and earning prizes. How to participate Winter Reading programs run from December 15, 2024–January 31, 2025. Track your reading and earn prizes in one of two ways: On our paper log sheets
Paper logs are ava...

The Best Books This Fall

If you need some reading suggestions for this fall, check out our list of new favorite titles. With everything from science fiction to mysteries to memoirs, there’s something for everyone. All titles are linked to our catalog, but feel free to stop by the Adult Reference Desk for help finding a book...

Stay Tuned for Summer Reading 2025

June 1–July 31, 2025 Summer Reading is a great way to build and reward reading habits. Join us for good books and fabulous prizes! All formats count: You can read printed books, read aloud to youngsters, and listen to audiobooks. All ages count: You can participate from birth onward. We...

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For the Fall Foodies to Wrap Up Your Year

From fall to winter, cozy days to holidays, and feasts to leftovers, we've got it all for you to make, explore, watch, and read! For example, did you know that there are more than 2,000 cookbooks on the shelves at the Library? Where to begin?! How about with your Librarians' recommendations below...

TREEmendous Library Card Campaign: ROOT

Season 1 of 5: ROOT We don’t need to go out on a limb to say that library cards are fantastic. Like sunshine brightening a forest, library cards enrich and empower the Lake Forest community with resources to facilitate literacy, resilience, and growth. That’s why we’re inviting you to celebrate ...

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Your Pool of Available Library Items Is Now Even Larger with Find More Illinois

When you use the Lake Forest Library Catalog at www.lakeforestlibrary.org/catalog, under “Search Options,” limiting your search by “Lake Forest Materials” restricts your results to items in our collections housed in the building. It’s like dipping your toe into the shallows of all the library items ...

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Friends Fall 2024 Quarterly

Join us for the 48th Annual Book Sale by the Friends at Lake Forest Recreation Center, 400 Hastings Rd. It’s time for the Friends’ biggest book sale of the year! Browse and purchase gently used, bargain‑priced books. This popular community event is one of the largest book sales in the Midwest. Wi...