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What's going on this month?
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Last Minute Gifts Running out of time for finding the right gifts? Well, we gotcha! Come on in and make a variety of gifts perfect for the people in your life! Tuesday, December 17, 6:30pm |
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Crazy Good Book Club Love good books? How about CRAZY good books? How about pizza? Yeah to all three? Then you need to join us in reading amazing books and enjoying some great pizza every month at Jimano's Pizza here in McHenry. The first ten people to sign up at the library even get a free copy of the book! Monday, December 23, 3:30pm at Jimano's Pizza
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Got a craving for more My Hero Academia? Want to gush with a fellow otaku about your favorite ship? Want to find out about a new series you just HAVE to get into? Well join your new otaku family at our monthly Anime & Manga Club!
This month we're making fun things for the kohai and senpai in your life! Thursday, December 27th, 7:00pm |
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Publisher's blurb:
A tale set in a Black Panther-inspired Nigeria follows the experiences of two sisters in a 22nd-century world devastated by war and climate change who fight against violence and political unrest to secure a safe and peaceful life together. Emma's take: If you have an endless craving for mecha themed anime, cyberpunk aesthetic, and ladies who kick ass and bring the pain in a setting different from anything you've read you need to check this book out now. This action-packed gem will have you scrambling for anime like Cannon Busters and Evangelion and books like Bluescreen by Dan Wells. If readers want to know more about the inspiration the book takes from the Nigerian Civil War, they can find it in
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Publisher's blurb: From the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond, this inspiring and radical celebration profiles 70 women who, coming from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated, have changed—and are still changing—the world. Emma's take: Everyone needs some inspiration now and then and this is chock-full of it! Amazing folks like Winnie Harlow, Jazz Jennings, Leslie Jones, and so many others are on every page you flip to, featuring a brief history of these inspiring ladies and enbies. If you need a bit of help to lift you up when you need the courage to stand up, speak out, and be heard you will find it here! I also have to point out how beautifully inclusive this book is; representation like no other and celebrating how women's history and feminism are intersectional.
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The Adventure Zone : here there be gerblins by Clint, Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroyPublisher's blurb:Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance. Emma's take: This is the glorious comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos, and laughing your butt off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure. You'll fall in love with Taako, Merle, and Magnus and want to immediately dive into the next installment, "The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!" You'll probably want more after that, too; but, the good news is you have seasons and seasons of this delicious story you can follow in their podcast!
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So, who is Miss Emma? Emma is a queerpunk librarian who is fueled by anime, music, video games. and tacos. She is your Teen Librarian at the McHenry Public Library and loves planning fun programs for you and sharing amazing books and comics with you. If you have any ideas for events or things we should do at the library she would love to hear from you. Just email her at teens@mchenrylibrary.org or, better yet, come in and geek out with her about your favorite stuff! She'd really like it if you checked out the library's insta!
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