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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-05-28/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T153423Z
CREATED:20260519T153423Z
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SUMMARY:Tales Retold Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month\, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. \nOur June pick is a Pinocchio retelling. \nIn the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune \nSummary: \nIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees\, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson\, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine\, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson\, a human\, lives there too. They’re a family\, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP\,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts\, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together\, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission\, or worse\, reprogramming. \nFor more information about this book club click here.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T183000
DTSTAMP:20260529T194012Z
CREATED:20260529T194012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T194012Z
UID:10002748-1781199000-1781202600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor June we will be starting Persuasion. \nSummary:  Anne Elliot\, a thoughtful and kind-hearted woman\, was once persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she deeply loved\, Captain Frederick Wentworth\, due to his lack of wealth and status. Now\, eight years later\, Anne remains unmarried and quietly endures life with her snobbish family.\nWhen Captain Wentworth returns\, wealthy and successful\, their paths cross again. Amidst the intricate social dynamics of Regency England\, Anne must navigate her lingering feelings for him while grappling with the pressures of family\, society\, and her own sense of self-worth.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jane-austen-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T193000
DTSTAMP:20260529T184210Z
CREATED:20260529T184209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T184210Z
UID:10000665-1781199000-1781206200@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for next month. \n  \nOur movie for June is Remarkably Bright Creatures. \n\nSummary:\nThrough unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium\, Tova\, an elderly widow\, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000605-1781254800-1781258400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-06-12/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T194857Z
CREATED:20251021T194856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T194857Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur June selection is Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood. \nBook Summary: \nGrace Adams gave birth\, blinked\, and now suddenly she is forty-five\, perimenopausal and stalled—the unhappiest age you can be\, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic\, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone\, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. \nGrace sets off across London\, armed with a £200 cake\, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall\, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them . . . and\, most important\, remind herself.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-7/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001225-1782406800-1782410400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-06-25/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T180000
DTSTAMP:20260529T181104Z
CREATED:20241119T163855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T181104Z
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SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Sci-Fi Book Club is taking over the spot of Tales Retold Book Club. Meets the first Thursday of every month. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur July book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams \nBook Summery: \nSeconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway\, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect\, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who\, for the last fifteen years\, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. \nTogether this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have”) and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed\, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian\, Zaphod’s girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan)\, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin\, a paranoid\, brilliant\, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig\, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. \nWhere are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don’t forget to bring a towel!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club/2026-07-07/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260709T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260623T153135Z
CREATED:20260623T153135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T153135Z
UID:10002879-1783618200-1783621800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor July we will be watching Persuasion. \nSummary: When Frederick Wentworth — the one who got away — crashes back into Anne Elliot’s life\, she must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jane-austen-book-club-3/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260710T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260710T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000606-1783674000-1783677600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-07-10/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260716T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260716T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T194704Z
CREATED:20251021T194703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T194704Z
UID:10000738-1784221200-1784224800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur August selection is A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch. \nBook Summary: \nTwenty-four-year-old bookseller and New Yorker Naomi Ackerman\, desperate to write a novel\, struggles to find the right story to tell. When\, after years of disastrous Tinder dates\, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all of her quirks—she feels she’s finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. But then Caleb’s ex-girlfriend\, Rosemary\, enters the scene. \nWhen Naomi learns that Rosemary is not safely tucked away overseas as she’d assumed but in fact lives in New York and works in the literary world\, she is fundamentally threatened and intrigued in equal measure. On paper\, Rosemary sounds like a better version of Naomi—but if they both fell for the same man\, they must have something more essential in common. \nDetermined to figure out how their stories intertwine\, Naomi’s casual Instagram stalking morphs into a full-blown friendship under false pretenses. She can’t seem to get herself to quit Rosemary\, in whom she discovers an unexpected confidant—and she can’t stop writing about her either\, having now found a more interesting subject for her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of her control\, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to separate\, Naomi manipulates the most important people in her life—her family\, her friends\, Caleb\, Rosemary\, and\, perhaps most devastatingly\, herself—in pursuit of her craft. Ultimately\, she’s forced to decide who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to write them all the perfect ending.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260730T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260730T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-07-30/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260804T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260804T180000
DTSTAMP:20260728T174236Z
CREATED:20260728T174236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T174236Z
UID:10003507-1785862800-1785866400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the first Thursday of every month @ 5:00. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur August book is All Systems Red by Martha Wells \nBook Summery: \nOn a distant planet\, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests\, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module\, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans\, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. \nBut when a neighboring mission goes dark\, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/sci-fi-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260813T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260813T193000
DTSTAMP:20260728T181151Z
CREATED:20260728T181151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T181151Z
UID:10003637-1786642200-1786649400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for August is Hoppers.\n\nSummary:\nWhen scientists discover a way to transform human consciousness into robotic animals\, Mabel uses the new technology to uncover mysteries of the animal world that are beyond anything she could have ever imagined.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260814T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260814T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000607-1786698000-1786701600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-08-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T200212Z
CREATED:20251021T194408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T200212Z
UID:10000739-1787245200-1787248800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur August selection is Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin. \nBook Summary: \nEddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and loved\, but he has never been kissed. \nA true gentleman and incurable romantic\, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop\, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead\, preserving letters and tokens of love. It is here that he meets Bella\, a troubled young woman who\, at 24 years old\, has just lost the love of her life. \nWhen Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss\, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love\, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and\, they hope\, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life. \nA tale of friendship and kindness that reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-5/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260827T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260827T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001227-1787850000-1787853600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-08-27/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260901T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260901T180000
DTSTAMP:20260728T180902Z
CREATED:20260728T180902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T180902Z
UID:10003634-1788282000-1788285600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the first Thursday of every month. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur September book is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. \nBook Summery: \nRyland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate\, last-chance mission—and if he fails\, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now\, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name\, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very\, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home\, with nothing but two corpses for company. \nHis crewmates dead\, his memories fuzzily returning\, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship\, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away\, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/sci-fi-book-club-3/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T193000
DTSTAMP:20260818T161657Z
CREATED:20260818T161657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T161657Z
UID:10003734-1789061400-1789068600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for September is Project Hail Mary.\nSummary:\nScience teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly returns\, he soon discovers he must solve the riddle behind a mysterious substance that’s causing the sun to die out. As details of the mission unravel\, he calls on his scientific training and sheer ingenuity — but he may not have to do it alone.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-15/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260911T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000608-1789117200-1789120800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-09-11/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260820T235650Z
CREATED:20260820T235650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T235650Z
UID:10003741-1789664400-1789668000@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur September selection is The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer. \nBook Summary: \nAs boys\, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest\, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived. \nFifteen years after their miraculous homecoming\, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile\, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons’ investigator. With his uncanny abilities\, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sister\, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy. \nJeremy alone knows the fantastical truth about the disappearances\, for while the rest of the world was searching for them\, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. He believes it is there that they will find Emilie’s sister. However\, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end as the quest for Emilie’s sister begins. The former lost boys must confront their shared past\, no matter how traumatic the memories. \nAlongside the headstrong Emilie\, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they called home for six months—for only then can they get back everything and everyone they’ve lost.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-11/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260924T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260924T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001228-1790269200-1790272800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-09-24/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260821T170439Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T170439Z
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SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the first Thursday of every month. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur October book is Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Trulove. \nBook Summery: \nDemeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately\, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures\, as her AI medical system\, Steward\, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders\, and they began when one nasty\, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. \nTo keep from getting decommissioned\, Demeter must join forces with her own team: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together\, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula. \nThe queer love child of pulp horror and ​classic ​sci-fi\, Of Monsters and ​Mainframes ​is a dazzling\, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/sci-fi-book-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261008T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261008T183000
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SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor November we will be watching Mansfield Park. \nSummary: Fanny (Frances O’Connor)\, born into a poor family\, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas (Harold Pinter)\, his wife (Lindsay Duncan) and their four children\, where she’ll be brought up for a proper introduction to society. She is treated unfavorably by her relatives\, except for her cousin Edmund (Jonny Lee Miller)\, whom she grows fond of. However\, Fanny’s life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of worldly Mary Crawford (Embeth Davidtz) and her brother Henry (Alessandro Nivola).
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/teen-book-club-22-8-4-2-7/2026-10-08/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261008T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261008T193000
DTSTAMP:20250830T175744Z
CREATED:20250830T175743Z
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SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for September is Moana 2.\n\nSummary:\nAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors\, a strong-willed girl journeys with her crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous\, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6/2026-10-08/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261009T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261009T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
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SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-10-09/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261015T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261015T180000
DTSTAMP:20260821T000157Z
CREATED:20260821T000157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T000157Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur October selection is The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean. \nBook Summary: \nScience is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes\, when obsession gets the better of scientists\, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell\, knowledge isn’t everything\, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science\, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process. \n 
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261020T170000
DTSTAMP:20250830T172250Z
CREATED:20250830T172250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T172250Z
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SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for  Banned Book Club on September 16th @ 5:30 pm \nEvery month we’ll read a book that has been banned or challenged. We’ve picked the first few reads\, but we want your suggestions for what we read going forward! \nBanned Book Club will meet the third Tuesday of each month. \nOur pick for September is This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed \nBook Summary: \nAfter her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home\, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school\, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves. Reeling from being uprooted and deserted\, Noor is certain the key to survival is to keep her head down and make it to graduation.  But things aren’t so simple. At school\, Noor discovers hundreds of books have been labeled “obscene” or “pornographic” and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Even worse\, virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors.  Noor can’t sit back and do nothing\, because that goes against everything she believes in\, but challenging the status quo just might put a target on her back. Can she effect change by speaking up? Or will small-town politics—and small-town love—be her downfall?
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7/2026-10-20/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261029T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-10-29/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260821T172111Z
CREATED:20260821T170529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T172111Z
UID:10003751-1793725200-1793728800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the first Thursday of every month. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur November book is Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes. \nBook Summery: \nClaire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth\, Claire and her team decide to investigate. \nWhat they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora\, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right. \nWhispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora\, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/sci-fi-book-club-5/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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