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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 November is Dog Man.\n\nSummary:\nWhen a police officer and his faithful police dog get injured in the line of duty\, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together — and Dog Man is born. As Dog Man learns to embrace his new identity\, he must stop feline supervillain Petey the Cat from cloning himself and going on a crime spree.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6-3/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251114T100000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
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/2025-11-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
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-4-7/2025-11-18/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T173535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T173535Z
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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 November selection is Clover Hendry’s Day Off by Beth Morrey. \nBook Summary: \n\n\n\n\nToday is not the day to mess with Clover Hendry. \nClover hasn’t said “No” a day in her life. Until today. Normally a woman who tips her hairdresser even when the cut is hideous\, is endlessly patient with her horrendous mother\, and says yes every time her boss asks her to work late—today\, things are going to be very different. Because Clover is taking the day off. Today\, she’s going to do and say whatever she likes\, even if it means her whole life unravels. \nWhat made Clover change her ways? Why doesn’t she care anymore? There’s more to this day than meets the eye. \nClover Hendry’s Day Off is a joyful\, raging\, galvanizing story about putting life on pause\, pleasing yourself\, and getting your own back. Whatever it takes. Because when Clover stops caring\, she can start living.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T161122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T161122Z
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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 December pick is a Three Musketeers Retelling. \nOne for All by Lillie Lainoff. \nSummary: \nTania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak\, nothing but “a sick girl”; even her mother is desperate to marry her off for security. But Tania wants to be strong\, independent\, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. \nThen Papa is brutally\, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie des Mariées\, Tania realizes\, is no finishing school. It’s a secret training ground for a new kind of Musketeer: women who are socialites on the surface\, but strap daggers under their skirts\, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets\, and protect France from downfall. And they don’t shy away from a swordfight. \nWith her newfound sisters at her side\, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose\, like she belongs. But then she meets Étienne\, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. He’s kind\, charming\, and breathlessly attractive—and he might have information about what really happened to her father. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion\, Tania will have to lean on her friends\, listen to her own body\, and decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-16/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251211T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251211T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T173222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T173223Z
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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-22-8-4-2-7/2025-12-11/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251211T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T175743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T175744Z
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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-10-2-6/2025-12-11/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T100000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000599-1765530000-1765533600@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/2025-12-12/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T200007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T200007Z
UID:10000731-1766077200-1766080800@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 December selection is The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. \nBook Summary: \nThe Wind in the Willows is a children’s novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame\, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole\, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-54/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260106T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T160937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T160937Z
UID:10001464-1767718800-1767722400@hallettlibrary.org
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 January pick is a King Lear Retelling. \nFool by Christopher Moore. \nSummary: \nA hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester\, Pocket.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-15/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260108T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260108T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T173222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T173223Z
UID:10001652-1767893400-1767897000@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 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-22-8-4-2-7/2026-01-08/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260108T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260108T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T175743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T175744Z
UID:10000660-1767893400-1767900600@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 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-10-2-6/2026-01-08/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T100000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000600-1767949200-1767952800@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/2026-01-09/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T195707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T195707Z
UID:10000732-1768496400-1768500000@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 January selection is The Night Ship by Jess Kidd. \nBook Summary: \n1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia \, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous\, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck\, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. \n1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where his late mother once resided. There\, on the tiny reef-shrouded island\, he discovers the story of an infamous shipwreck…
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-53/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251113T224233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T224233Z
UID:10002114-1768924800-1768928400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Banned Book Club will meet the third Tuesday of each month. \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! \nOur pick for January is Sold by Patricia McCormick \nBook Summary: \nLakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor\, but her life is full of simple pleasures\, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat\, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops\, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. \nHe introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help\, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. \nAn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family’s debt—then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. \nLakshmi’s life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still\, she lives by her mother’s words—”Simply to endure is to triumph”—and gradually\, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision—will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life?
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7-3/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001220-1769706000-1769709600@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-3/2026-01-29/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T160651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T160651Z
UID:10001465-1770138000-1770141600@hallettlibrary.org
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 February pick is a Beauty and the Beast Retelling. \nUprooted by Naomi Novik. \nSummary: \nAgnieszka loves her valley home\, her quiet village\, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border\, full of malevolent power\, and its shadow lies over her life. \nHer people rely on the cold\, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years\, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. \nThe next choosing is fast approaching\, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful\, graceful\, brave Kasia\, all the things Agnieszka isn’t\, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. \nBut Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes\, it is not Kasia he will choose.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260117T205937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260117T205937Z
UID:10001653-1770917400-1770921000@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 February we will be watching Emma. \nSummary: Following the antics of a young woman\, Emma Woodhouse\, who lives in Georgian- and Regency-era England and occupies herself with matchmaking – in sometimes misguided\, often meddlesome fashion – in the lives of her friends and family.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/teen-book-club-22-8-4-2-7-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260117T210152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260117T210153Z
UID:10000661-1770917400-1770924600@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 February is How to Train Your Dragon.\n\nSummary:\nHiccup is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk\, where fighting dragons is a way of life. His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit\, despite the fact that his father is chief of the clan. Tossed into dragon-fighting school\, he endeavors to prove himself as a true Viking\, but when he befriends an injured dragon he names Toothless\, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people’s future.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T100000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
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/2026-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260124T165803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260124T165805Z
UID:10002115-1771344000-1771347600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for  Banned Book Club on February 17th @ 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 February is Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram \nBook Summary: \nDarius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi\, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s about to take his first-ever trip to Iran\, and it’s pretty overwhelming—especially when he’s also dealing with clinical depression\, a disapproving dad\, and a chronically anemic social life. In Iran\, he gets to know his ailing but still formidable grandfather\, his loving grandmother\, and the rest of his mom’s family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab\, the boy next door who changes everything. \nSohrab makes sure people speak English so Darius can understand what’s going on. He gets Darius an Iranian National Football Team jersey that makes him feel like a True Persian for the first time. And he understands that sometimes\, best friends don’t have to talk. Darius has never had a true friend before\, but now he’s spending his days with Sohrab playing soccer\, eating rosewater ice cream\, and sitting together for hours in their special place\, a rooftop overlooking the Yazdi skyline. \nSohrab calls him Darioush—the original Persian version of his name—and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he’s Darioush to Sohrab. When it’s time to go home to America\, he’ll have to find a way to be Darioush on his own.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7-5/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20251021T195546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T195546Z
UID:10000733-1771520400-1771524000@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 February selection is The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood. \nBook Summary: \nIf she wasn’t dead already\, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger\, she’s also now standing in her “sparkle and shine” nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her. \nAs they start to chat\, everything else becomes background noise. That is\, until someone comes running through a door yelling something about a huge mistake and sends the dreamy stranger back down to Earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife. \nWhen Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to Earth and reconnect with the mysterious man\, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But to find him in a city of millions\, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart\, learn to ask for help\, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind. . . .
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-52/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260226T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001221-1772125200-1772128800@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-3/2026-02-26/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260303T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20250830T160350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T160351Z
UID:10001466-1772557200-1772560800@hallettlibrary.org
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 March pick is a Mansfield Park Retelling. \nThis Motherless Land by Nikki May. \nSummary: \nQuiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother\, her professor father\, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes\, she’s sent to England\, a place she knows only from her mother’s stories. To her dismay\, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated\, the food tasteless\, the weather grey. Worse still\, her mother’s family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv. \nFree-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin\, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. \nBut the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history\, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward\, separated by country\, misunderstanding\, and ambition.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-13/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260221T175613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260221T175613Z
UID:10001654-1773336600-1773340200@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12th @ 4:30 pm \nThe Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor March we will be starting Northanger Abbey. \nSummary: Catherine Morland\, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend\, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney\, who invites her to visit his family estate\, Northanger Abbey. Once there\, Catherine\, a great reader of Gothic thrillers\, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry’s mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry\, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events\, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/teen-book-club-22-8-4-2-7-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260221T175359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260221T175400Z
UID:10000662-1773336600-1773343800@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 March is Bad Guys 2. \n\nSummary:\nReformed criminals Mr. Wolf\, Mr. Snake\, Mr. Piranha\, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are trying very hard to be good. However\, they soon find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes heist that’s masterminded by a new team of delinquents they never saw coming — the Bad Girls.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6-5/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T100000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000602-1773392400-1773396000@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/2026-03-13/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260317T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260317T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260307T170352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T170352Z
UID:10002116-1773763200-1773766800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Every 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 March is The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley. \nBook Summary: \nIt’s 1993\, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin\, she wonders if she’ll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike\, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all\, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all\, live..
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20260221T175015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260221T175016Z
UID:10000734-1773939600-1773943200@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 March selection is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. \nBook Summary: \n\n\n\n\n\nPiranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite\, its corridors endless\, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues\, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases\, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. \nThere is one other person in the house—a man called The Other\, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores\, evidence emerges of another person\, and a terrible truth begins to unravel\, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-10/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260326T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T110207
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001222-1774544400-1774548000@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-3/2026-03-26/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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