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Checkout the following teen books featured on Publishers Weekly’s Best Children's and YA Books 2018. The list includes multiple National Book Award finalists and this year's winner, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. Click on the title to see if a book is available at our library and to place a copy on hold. The Assassination of… [...]

Start off the new year with one of the following books releasing in January. You will find plenty of suspense and thrillers like An Anonymous Girl, The Burglar, The Dreamers, and Judgment. Also watch out for fantasy fiction from Seanan McGuire and S.A. Chakraborty. Click on the title to place a book on hold and be… [...]

For a view of dystopian society, today’s movie offering is Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam in 1985. The story revolves around Sam Lowry, a low-level government employee in a bureaucratic society, and his hunt for a woman who comes to him in his dreams. When he finds her to be a real person, he follows… [...]

Below are the 2018 goodreads readers' choice awards. Have you read any of the winners? If you haven't come check one or three out from the library. [caption id="attachment_25897" align="alignnone" width="160"] Fiction[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25898" align="alignnone" width="160"] Mystery & Thriller[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25901" align="alignnone" width="160"] Historical Fiction[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25902" align="alignnone" width="160"] Fantasy[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_25933" align="alignnone" width="160"]… [...]

Today we visit the Young Adult realm where we witness the convergence of young love and music. First up is Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (DVD COMEDY NIC). Nick is reeling from a breakup with his girlfriend when he sees her at a club with a new guy. That same night he meets Norah, a… [...]

Now for something lighter! Trainwreck (DVD COMEDY TRA) is a 2015 romantic-comedy about a 23 year old hard-drinking party girl who is living by the words of her father: “monogamy is not realistic.” She does not want to be pinned down to just one man, but when she interviews a sports doctor for the men’s… [...]

After an exhaustive list of releases in November, December is short on new books. Nonetheless, here are some of the popular titles to look forward to in December. Click on the title to place a book on hold and be notified when it is available for you to checkout. The Boy by Tami Hoag “When… [...]

The 2013 movie 12 Years a Slave (DVD DRAMA TWE) is the true story of Solomon Northup, based on his 1853 memoir. Northup, a free African American man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, works as a farmer and a violinist. When two white men offer him work playing the violin, he travels with them… [...]

As we get close to Halloween, here are a couple of classics to scare and entertain you. For the movie we go to the 1931 Tod Browning film Dracula (DVD HORROR DRA), starring Bela Lugosi in the titular role. Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to London with a man named Renfield, who has been put… [...]

Read books nominated for the National Book Awards before winners are announced on November 14th. The following list includes fiction and nonfiction books in our collection at the Villa Park Public Library. You can visit the National Book Foundation's website for a complete listing of books selected for the longlist and finalists for the 2018 awards.… [...]