Library Closed through April 8

Due to an abundance of caution and the Governor’s stay-at-home order, all Palatine Public Library District facilities will remain closed through April 8. Please do not return your Library materials until the Library reopens. There will not be any late penalties. Watch the website and social media for updates.

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New Books

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    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.

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    The City We Became

    N. K. Jemisin

    The City We Became

    N. K. Jemisin

    Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

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    The Shape of Family

    Shilpi Somaya Gowda

    The Shape of Family

    Shilpi Somaya Gowda

    From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy.

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    The Mountains Sing

    Que Mai Phan Nguyen

    The Mountains Sing

    Que Mai Phan Nguyen

    “An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . .

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    The Glass Hotel

    Emily St. John Mandel

    The Glass Hotel

    Emily St. John Mandel

    From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coa

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    Darling Rose Gold

    Stephanie Wrobel

    Darling Rose Gold

    Stephanie Wrobel

    "In her compulsive, sharply-drawn debut, Stephanie Wrobel peels back the layers of the most complicated of mother-daughter relationships.

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    Grown-Up Pose

    Sonya Lalli

    Grown-Up Pose

    Sonya Lalli

    Telling her conservative Indian parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing Anu Desai has ever done - and she's still dealing with the fallout.

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    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    “If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?” England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.

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  • Cover image for The Night Watchman

    The Night Watchman

    Louise Erdrich

    The Night Watchman

    Louise Erdrich

    Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North

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    Hour of the Assassin

    Matthew Quirk

    Hour of the Assassin

    Matthew Quirk

    "Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this ...

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Coming Soon: Movies

  • Cover image for Little Women

    Little Women

    Greta Gerwig

    Little Women

    Greta Gerwig

    In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris.

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    Cats

    Tom Hooper

    Cats

    Tom Hooper

    A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

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    Dolittle

    Stephen Gaghan

    Dolittle

    Stephen Gaghan

    After his wife's death, Dr. John Dolittle (Robert Downey, Jr.) decided to hide from the world with his beloved animals.

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    Just Mercy

    Destin Daniel Cretton

    Just Mercy

    Destin Daniel Cretton

    A powerful and thought-provoking true-story, "Just Mercy" follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice.

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  • Cover image for The Last Full Measure

    The Last Full Measure

    Todd Robinson

    The Last Full Measure

    Todd Robinson

    Thirty-four years after his death, Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr. ("Pits") is awarded the nation's highest military honor, for his actions on the battlefield.

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    The Gentlemen

    Guy Ritchie

    The Gentlemen

    Guy Ritchie

    An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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    The Turning

    Floria Sigismondi

    The Turning

    Floria Sigismondi

    A young woman quits her teaching job to be a private tutor (governess) for a wealthy young heiress who witnessed her parent's tragic death.

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    Distant Constellation

    Shevaun Mizrahi

    Distant Constellation

    Shevaun Mizrahi

    A Tarkovskian dream-like landscape, featuring the inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home where pranksters, artists and old casanovas seduce us to confront the true nature of time.

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Coming Soon: Fiction

  • Cover image for Chosen Ones

    Chosen Ones

    Veronica Roth

    Chosen Ones

    Veronica Roth

    "The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face eve

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    Afterlife

    Julia Alvarez

    Afterlife

    Julia Alvarez

    A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * Vogue * Bustle * Buzzfeed * The Millions * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature Th

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  • Cover image for Simon the Fiddler

    Simon the Fiddler

    Paulette Jiles

    Simon the Fiddler

    Paulette Jiles

    The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ra

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  • Cover image for Girl Gone Viral

    Girl Gone Viral

    Alisha Rai

    Girl Gone Viral

    Alisha Rai

    In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-shy ex-model, shoving her into the spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she'd been pining

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  • Cover image for How Much of These Hills Is Gold

    How Much of These Hills Is Gold

    C. Pam Zhang

    How Much of These Hills Is Gold

    C. Pam Zhang

    An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home.

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  • Cover image for Pretty Things

    Pretty Things

    Janelle Brown

    Pretty Things

    Janelle Brown

    Two wildly different women--one a grifter, the other an heiress--are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.

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  • Cover image for The Book of Lost Friends

    The Book of Lost Friends

    Lisa Wingate

    The Book of Lost Friends

    Lisa Wingate

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst

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Coming Soon: Non-Fiction

  • Cover image for How to Eat

    How to Eat

    Mark Bittman, David Katz

    How to Eat

    Mark Bittman, David Katz

    Easy-to-understand rules for eating right, from food expert Mark Bittman and Yale physician David Katz, MD, based on their hit Grub Street article

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  • Cover image for Rocco's Keto Comfort Food Diet

    Rocco's Keto Comfort Food Diet

    Rocco DiSpirito

    Rocco's Keto Comfort Food Diet

    Rocco DiSpirito

    "The #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrity chef shows you how to lose up to fifteen pounds in fifteen days by eating gourmet, keto versions of the comfort foods you love.

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  • Cover image for Untamed

    Untamed

    Glennon Doyle

    Untamed

    Glennon Doyle

    "There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends.

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  • Cover image for Tower of Skulls

    Tower of Skulls

    Richard Frank

    Tower of Skulls

    Richard Frank

    The first book in a new three-volume history of the Asia- Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal.

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  • Cover image for Long, Strange, and Wondrous Trip

    Long, Strange, and Wondrous Trip

    Neil Shubin

    Long, Strange, and Wondrous Trip

    Neil Shubin

    The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our pr

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