The Great American Read LPL

08/19/2018

🙆‍♀️ the feast! 🙆‍♀️

08/06/2018

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Calling all Harry Potter fans...

There's going to be butterbeer.

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Join us for our Literary Feast Saturday, August 18th from 1-3:30 p.m. for this free, tasty (non-alcoholic) treat and so much more!

RSVP "Going" at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2090420721174089/

Programming for The Great American Read is offered as part of a grant from the American Library Association and PBS.

08/02/2018

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“All three of us like chocolate cake for breakfast. Mom had never allowed it with ham and eggs, but Darry let Soda and me talk him into it.” -The Outsiders

They ate chocolate cake for breakfast in The Outsiders so we're going to eat it at our feast! Join us Saturday, August 18th 1:00-3:30 in Conference Room C for cake and so much more 😋

RSVP by selecting "Going" here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2090420721174089/

06/26/2018

Unsure how you can participate in The Great American Read? Here are some ways to get involved!

06/22/2018

Read, read, read! Stop by and peruse the selections of Great American Read books in our free book exchange.

06/13/2018

Thank you to everyone who has liked our page! We hope it will be helpful as we schedule more events :)

Welcome to your home base for all things Great American Read! We’re so excited to have the chance to offer you some great events supporting the PBS documentary special, including before-it-airs screenings, clubs, prizes, and so much more!

06/13/2018

Our Great American Read Raffle (graffle?) prize is one of our biggest ever...

A Kindle Fire 7 AND a $50 Amazon gift card!! 😱 (2nd runner up gets a $50 gift card too)

How?

Participate in "The Great American Read" by reading the books or attending our events (screenings, online book club etc.) Get blue tickets at the circ desk (1 per book, 1 per event).

Find the list of books here: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/ #/

good luck!

Programming for The Great American Read is offered as part of a grant from the American Library Association and PBS.

05/29/2018

Welcome to your home base for all things Great American Read! We’re so excited to have the chance to offer you some great events supporting the PBS documentary special, including before-they-air screenings, clubs, prizes, and more!

05/29/2018

While PBS searches for America's Favorite Book, we'll be looking for Leander's. Come vote at the Library! Select your faves and your ballots count as raffle tickets for an Amazon gift card! (You don't have to have read them all, go with your gut ;)). We'll keep doing book vs. book match ups until we whittle down the list of 100 to one single book.

We'll announce the winner of the first raffle on Friday. New raffle every 2 weeks! Vote as many times as you want.



Programming for The Great American Read is offered as part of a grant from the American Library Association and PBS.

05/24/2018

It's official! Voting for is now open. Explore the full list of novels and discover all the ways to vote for your favorites: https://to.pbs.org/2ILKkvi.

05/23/2018

Who’s watching the premiere? 💗📚

Comment if you’ve been inspired to read one of the books 😊

05/18/2018

Did you know Leander Library has a Goodreads.com book club called Leander Readers? Not only that, we've made a "The Great American Read" section on there to read and discuss all your favorite top 100 novels.

Join today and if you participate in the TGAR section you'll earn Kindle 7 raffle ticket!

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/509837-leander-readers

Leander Readers is an adult book club hosted by Leander Public Library. Each month we will read a book that has been chosen by staff members.Members ne...