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Get information about the COVID-19 Emergency Housing Assistance Program. More Info
The Reading to Dogs session on Thursday, May 13, 4:00 p.m. with Chinn Park Library is cancelled. Details
Prince William Public Libraries (PWPL) is seeking the public’s feedback through a short, six-question survey. Take Survey
Friends book sale at Chinn Park Library May 20-24. Closed Sunday, May 23. DETAILS
Graduation Day for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten on May 13. DETAILS
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Visit this page if you're a local author or a reader who wants to explore works written by authors in the greater Prince William community.
An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Using author, title, subject and keyword access the user can access over 90,000 titles in the NoveList database.
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100 Books Before College | Amazing Space | Coretta Scott King (2/2020) | Digital Library by Subject (3/2021) | Going Green | Caldecott Winners | Newbery Winners | Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction (8/2018) | Printz Winners | Ramadan and Jajj Booklist | Smart Money Reading Challenge for Adults (2/2021) | Smart Money Reading Challenge for Youth (2/2021) | Starting a Business (9/2019) |YA for Adults | U.S. Historical Fiction Through World War II
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PRINCE WILLIAM PUBLIC LIBRARIES BOOKSHELF: READ
If you enjoyed the television series The Americans and/or Homeland, take time to read Need to Know, preferably when you will not be interrupted. Karen Cleveland’s book centering around a CIA analyst and her family in Bethesda is one of t...
tagged: suspense and fiction
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter is preparing to go into his second year at Hogwarts, a school for witchcraft and wizardry. But before he can escape his aunt and uncle’s house, a house elf named Dobby visits him d...
tagged: childrens, young-adult, adventure, juvenile-fiction, middle-grade, ...
by Diana Biller
A wonderful debut novel with a little bit of everything. Secrets, an old house, a ghost, blackmail, romance, and a quirky loveable hero. The Widow of Rose House is an engaging quick read historical romance with a gothic flair. It has wel...
tagged: adult, fiction, historical-fiction, and romance
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee wrote an outstanding book on communication entitled "We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter." Because I found that book so compelling, I was excited to find out that she’d written another book. "Do Nothing...
tagged: adult, nonfiction, self-help, and psychology
by Laura Ruby
York: The Clockwork Ghost, by Laura Ruby, picks up a couple of months after its predecessor, The Shadow Cipher ended. Theo, Tess, and Jamie are all settled into their new lives after their determination to learn the truth ended with the ...
tagged: adventure, childrens, fiction, juvenile-fiction, mystery, and middl...
See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog
The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award-winning See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog is a very clever riff on the classic easy reader formula. You know you’re in for a real treat from the first pages, in which the text states ‘See the Cat’ and...
tagged: childrens, award-winners, and easy-readers
Thursday, the second wife of a polygamist, is the unreliable narrator of this psychological thriller. The relationships are unlike those where the entire group lives together with the participants referring to themselves as “sister-wives...
tagged: fiction and suspense
