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Sheltering in place does not mean high school students cannot continue their college search process. In this virtual presentation, Tom Jaworski, founder of Quest College Consulting will identify resources that will assist families in their virtual interactions with colleges and universities. These strategies will guide prospective students in communicating with colleges of their choice.

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Great Beginnings is geared for birth-23 months. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Are you interested in true crime novels or podcasts? Once a week during October we'll be discussing some cases, trading information, sharing our favorite crimes, and just talking criminology.

Please register with the best email to invite you to our programming space.

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Great Beginnings is geared for birth-23 months. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Grades K-6
How fast can you find your favorite book? Can you find something that floats? You never know what you'll be asked to find when we do our scavenger hunt! Enter your email for connection details.

We're starting up an additional D&D Club campaign for players.

If you are interested in playing, but have never played before, please sign up for our Introductory Class (September 29th).

Geared for homeschool students grades K-6 with caregivers
We'll have activities for students the first half of the program followed by the opportunity for parents to talk to each other about their homeschooling experiences all over Zoom.

Are you into a specific show, or do you want to learn about a different genre?
Come join in, and we'll discuss our personal favorites.
Register with an email address to get details on how to join.

Join us as we discuss "The Incendiaries" by R. O. Kwon via Zoom. Copies are available at the library -- please ask at the Information Desk or Curbside Pickup.

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.

Time to get the wiggles out virtually! Join us and we'll move and groove together to fun songs and rhymes! Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Let us help you address the challenges faced by individuals living and feeling distant and alone, intensified by the pandemic. Licensed clinicians from Metropolitan Family Services with a combined total of over 40 years of experience will suggest strategies and answer your anonymous questions.

Register here for the Zoom webinar invitation:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JbxJGo1vS62qNlaRVcr9KA

The WPL Writers' Group will be meeting via Zoom! Facilitated by local author and library staff member, Karen Schreck, we provide a supportive and consistent environment for writers of all genres, ages eighteen years of age and up.

Whether you are an aspiring writer or a published author, whether you seek inspiration for your material, or you are drafting, revising, or editing your manuscript, our community will supply you with prompts and exercises, time and space to write, and, if you so choose, the opportunity to share your work and receive constructive feedback.

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Preschool storytime is geared for 3-5 years. Each week, Monday's and Friday's class will be the same. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Gather your "QuaranTeam" (individuals welcome, too!) and some beverages and snacks for Virtual Trivia! We will be playing live via Zoom meeting, one team per log-in, please. Questions will be geared towards adults, but all ages are welcome. Please make sure to join us right at 7pm as we go over instructions.

Local newspapers provided our ancestors with “all the news that’s fit to print”. This presentation will review the major websites offering access to historical newspapers and search strategies for finding those nuggets of information that can break down brick walls or add color to our ancestors’ lives.

Class is co-hosted by DuPage County Genealogical Society and will be presented virtually over Zoom. Registration link will be posted on the Events page of dcgs.org prior to the class.

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Great Beginnings is geared for birth-23 months. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Tweens
Youth Services staff will share some of their favorite "send a shiver up your spine" books perfect for the autumn season. Visit the library's YouTube page (wheatonlibrary.org/youtube) beginning at 4pm to find out what we're reading.

The Library Board of Trustees of the Wheaton Public Library will hold the regular monthly Board meetings on the third Monday of each month at 7pm. Meetings are held in the Library Board Room on the 3rd floor. The public is welcome.

Find this science demonstration on the library's YouTube channel (wheatonlibrary.org/youtube) and watch it at your convenience starting at 4pm.

Business and Career coach Vickie Austin highlights new and classic business books for busy executives, employees, and entrepreneurs. Don't worry if you haven't read the book!

This month's title: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann

Register in advance for this virtual zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdO2hqT8rGdMIyZLRtCoFvgmYhh6ZzGn4

Time to get the wiggles out virtually! Join us and we'll move and groove together to fun songs and rhymes! Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Distant vacations seem out of the question right now, but there are options you might not have not considered. Join us for glimpses of the Cayman Islands, river cruising, tour packages, and resorts just a short drive away. Wheaton travel agency, Le Travel will provide insight, tips and answers to your questions.

Register here for the Zoom webinar invitation:
>https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1dppRtWSSmKaqBYc9-WClQ

Show off your builds, discuss your favorite stories, and share your favorite tips and tricks.

Register with an email address to get details on how to join.

During the Fall, we're starting up a psychological/thriller/mystery based book club. Each month we'll have a set theme and offer several options of books to read that all link to the theme.
October's Theme: Who's Going To Hear You Scream?
-The Cabin - Natasha Preston
-Ten - Gretchen McNeil
-Contagion - Erin Bowman
-Across The Universe - Beth Revis

Please register with the best email address to invite you to our programming space.