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Wauconda Area Community Calendar
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With school starting, don't forget to check the Wauconda Area Community Calendar for community events!

Have an event to promote?
If you belong to a community organization in the Wauconda Area Public Library District and have the group's permission, you can share your event on the community calendar for all to see. Click "Learn More" below to see examples of groups that could contribute.

Looking for an event to attend?
Remember hearing about a community event and aren't quite sure when it is happening? Make the  community calendar your first stop. If you don't see the event posted, contact the organization and ask them to post their events!
ADULT | ADULT OFFERINGS
Join us Tuesday at 6:00p to l earn how LinkedIn manages your professional identity by building your network and promoting your experience. 

Join us Saturday at 2:00p when Professor Gary Midkiff will lead a nonpartisan conversation about the most important foreign policy issues facing America today.

Great Decisions booklets are available at the Adult Help Desk. 

Listen as certified staging professional and licensed real estate broker Mary Zentz provides tips and best practices to get the highest price for your family home.

The Novel Thoughts Book Club will meet Tonight at 7:00p in the Lincoln Room.

Join us for discussion of:

We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Tired of paying an overpriced bill? Join us Saturday at 11:00a for an informative presentation on why and how you might be able the “cut the cable cord” in favor of using popular streaming subscriptions like Netflix, Hulu and more.  


KID CITY | CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
Don't forget that Jammin' in my Jammies is TOMORROW at 7:00p. We'll see you there.

Contact the library to learn more
WELL READ | BOOKS WE LOVE
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai

Submitted by Terri S.
The Great Believers is a powerful and tender story of friendship, love and redemption set in Chicago in the 1980’s and Paris in 2015. This is one of those novels that really pulls the reader in, with deep feeling and affection for the characters and a storyline that just won’t let go. I will carry this story, these characters with me for a long time, and I think probably this is my favorite book, so far, this year. (Adult Fiction) 

Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman

Submitted by Kelly F.
Thor is all the rage in movie theaters these days. Read about him, his brother Loki, and father god Odin in this future classic by Neil Gaiman. Spend time in the frozen North with the Norse pantheon and marvel at the cunning, the crazy bravado, and the rough beauty of these tempestuous characters. Gaiman has gone deep into source material to craft this book of pure entertainment, with mythological roots as strong and old as Thor himself. (Adult Fiction)

Cottage by the Sea
by Debbie Macomber

Submitted by Kelly K.
As we wind down the summer, there is still time to make room for a satisfying beach read.  Cottage by the Sea is heartfelt and appealing, a reliable and rewarding story. Sometimes predictable is just what we want – happy endings and resolutions that remind us all things (especially good things) are indeed possible. (Adult Fiction)

Finding Jake
by Bryan Reardon

Submitted by Kim S.
How well do you ever really know your kids? When there is a school shooting and you can't find your son, your entire life and all the decisions that led you to this point flash before you. A hauntingly poignant modern tale of a parent's worst nightmare. Told from the perspective of a father who wants to think the best of his son, but fears the worst and questions what he could have done to make things turn out differently. (Adult Fiction)