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15 Ways Your Lake Forest Library Card Can Save You Thousands

1. Get Discounts at Museums and Parks Lake Forest Library is a part of the Museum Adventure Pass program which offers discounts to suburban Chicago museums and parks. Some of the passes include 2 free passes to the Brookfield Zoo, half off parking at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and BOGO tick...

What to Read Next: Daniel Silva Edition

Daniel Silva is one of our most popular authors here in Lake Forest. He is considered one of the greatest American spy novelists. Silva's first novel in 1997, The Unlikely Spy, was a bestselling novel. However his fourth novel,The Kill Artist introduced us to the art restorer and somet...

(Contest closed) GoPro Kits and Movie Fest

GoPro Movie Fest Once you've checked out a GoPro Kit (see details below) and captured stunning stills and videos, edit and polish them for viewing during the GoPro Movie Fest on November 15. Submit your video by completing the form on this page, and we will notify you if we plan to show it during ...

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin Book Club Guide

Why we chose this title: This was a really well-done story in my opinion. It made me think about my own mortality, and whether or not I would want to know my death date. It was interesting to see how the information about the characters' death dates influenced the rest of their lives. T...

Stay with Me book discussion guide with book covers

Stay With Me Discussion Guide

Why we chose this title: Stay With Me is one of the best books I've read in a long time! I could not put it down. Everyone that I have recommended it to has also loved it. (I've been pushing it on everyone I talk to). It is such an intense story, and I really empathized with ...

What to Read Next: All We Ever Wanted edition

What to Read Next: All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin Edition

All We Ever Wanted: All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin has landed itself as number two on the New York Times Best Seller List this week and has been quite popular with the residents of Lake Forest. If you liked this book or looking for something similar to read while you wait for it, yo...

10 Books on Friendships

In honor of #BestFriendsDay we wanted to share ten of our favorite books about friendships- all kinds of friendships, the good, the bad, and the complicated. Who are some of your favorite literary friends? My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante This is a rich, intense and g...

(Survey closed) Sunday Hours Survey

Thank you to everyone for sharing your thoughts about the Library's Sunday hours. The survey is now closed. We are working to be available to you at the optimal times and will keep you informed of any changes to our operating hours. ...

18 Books You Need to Read this Summer

FICTION: The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Four young friends navigate the cutthroat world of music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love in...

Rebecca Makkai and The Great Believers book cover

Author Spotlight : Rebecca Makkai

About Our Book Club Reception with Rebecca Makkai: We had a great event with Rebecca Makkai here at the Library on June 1st for our Book Club Reception! Rebecca discussed one of the most anticipated books of this summer, her new novel, The Great Believers, how to get authors t...

What to Read Next: Before We Were Yours Edition

Our readers can't get enough of Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours. This well written historical fiction novel is based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals, in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy famili...

What to Read Next: The Great Alone Edition

Kristin Hannah has been a popular author for many years, but established herself as an author of more serious novels with her 2015 novel, The Nightingale, a story of two sisters in Nazi occupied France. Her latest novel, The Great Alone, follows a family of three trying to make i...

What's knot to love?

Do you love pretzels as much as Stanley from The Office? We do, too! Celebrate National Pretzel Day with us with these books to read while snacking! In Pretzel by Margaret Rey, Pretzel finds that being the longest dachshund in all the world is not enough to win the favor of Greta, the little ...

Cooking with Addie Gundry

A little bit about Addie We're so excited to host Addie Gundry here at the Library on April 25th and we still have some spots left if you want to register! Addie will prepare samples of recipes from her cookbook, No-Bake Desserts, as well as discuss her culinary training, working for Martha ...

National Small Business Week Apr 29-May 5

Small Business Week at the Lake Forest Library

National Small Business Week (NSBW) is April 30 to May 5 where SCORE and the Small Business Administration (SBA) celebrate small business. NSBW started in 1963 as a way to promote the growth and development of small enterprises and to draw attention to small businesses nationwide. The initiative...