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Genre Highlight: Retold Myths

Did you love mythology as a kid? Love a story with high drama and personal stakes? One of these books might be for you!

Did you know that January is National Soup Month? The Quincy Public Library has a display up for it in the AV area, with some fun books featuring soups of all sorts of varieties & cookbooks to collect recipes and/or inspiration from.

Book Review: The House

5/5 grape vines. "The House" shows the ebbs and flows of life over a century of time.

Different Reading Goals for 2026

In a time of New Year's Resolutions, why not try something book-related?

Best Reads of 2025

As we say goodbye to 2025, here is a list of the books that entertained QPL staff this year.

Book Review: Me (Moth)

5/5 plot twists. This coming-of-age tale offers messages about grief, memory, and the freedom in letting go of both.

Why Can't I Find This Thing?

Sometimes it happens, you go to grab a book or movie, and we don't have it. Find out why and some ways to get around it.

Know Before You Go: Book-to-Movie Adaptations!

"The book was better." Is that always true? Check out one of these books before the adaptation comes out and judge for yourself!

Trail of Tears Commemoration

The Trail of Tears was just one of several moments of displacement & removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands and is commemorated on September 16th.

Genre Highlight: Graphic Novel Adaptations

If you think graphic novels are just about people running around in their PJs, think again!

Find Your Inner Nerd Day

Get in nerds! We're going to the library!

Memorial Monday, August 10-17, 2025

A couple of big names from the arts have passed away - Greg Iles & Terence Stamp. They aren't names you would naturally put together. One is American, while the other is British. One is an actor & one is an author. But both made large contributions to their fields.

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