Visit the Fiction/AV/Teen Desk at the Library and draw from our jar of music suggestions.  Check out the CD and listen at home.  Circle your opinion (Loved it, Hated it, or It was OK) and be entered to win cool prizes!  Open to adults and teens.

Support the Mount Prospect Public Library Foundation and enjoy celebrated book dramatist Barbara Rinella!  Empress Michiko, the first nonaristocratic woman to marry into the Japanese royal family, is vividly brought to life in The Commoner. Tickets are $18 and must be purchased by October 4. Click here for more information.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedoms to choose or to express one's opinion, even if that opinion might be unorthodox or unpopular.  Check out the display of challenged books located in the MPPL lobby, and enter to win a T-shirt or bookbag!

Support the Mount Prospect Public Library Foundation and enjoy celebrated book dramatist Barbara Rinella!  Empress Michiko, the first nonaristocratic woman to marry into the Japanese royal family, is vividly brought to life in The Commoner. Tickets are $18 and must be purchased by October 4. Click here for more information.

Bestselling author Bret Nicholaus and experienced literary agent Joe Durepos will provide an insider’s glimpse into the publishing world. Authors and would-be authors will learn what it takes to get a book published in today’s competitive environment. Register now.

Take a virtual trip to the world beyond Mount Prospect through books, movies, and music.  You are just five steps away from being eligible for our prize drawings, which include a GPS, luggage, and our World Literacy Prize basket.  Register now. 

Join us for an exotic adventure as book dramatist Suzanne Hales transforms herself with authentic accent, costume, and African flair into Precious Ramotswe, the heroine of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.  Register here.