Wheaton Public Library
225 N. Cross St.
Wheaton, IL 60187
United States
Eowyn Ivey’s Black Woods, Blue Sky is a wonderfully written story, a fairy-folk tale of sorts, of a mother and daughter in the Alaskan wilderness. Emaleen, a chatty five year old girl, gets lost in the Alaskan forest and is reunited with her mother, Birdie, when she is rescued by Arthur, a quiet loner who rarely ventures into town.
Wheaton Public Library is thrilled to share our 2024 Annual Report. Take a look back at highlights from this past year including adding Aspen Discovery to our online catalog, distributing over 3,400 solar eclipse glasses, and more.
Our Youth Services Department has a great opportunity for young patrons to display their collectables in our display cases on the library's Lower Level. Interested? Fill out our Display Case Form for a chance to be featured.
Wheaton Public Library card is required. The card may belong to the child or caregiver.
The narrator of Lottie Hazell's debut novel, Piglet, is living a charmed life in London, with all her romantic, professional, and financial desires and aspirations rapidly being fulfilled.
10 years ago eight-year-old royal page Hanalei and Queen Oliana of Tamarind ingested poison and fell into a stasis. It was said that a dragonfruit (the egg of a sea dragon) has the power to undue a person's greatest sorrow - not without a price of course. After the poisoning three eggs were secured, but two were broken. The third egg was stolen by Hanalei's father, who used it to wake his daughter then escape into the night, leaving the queen.
In a small Pakistani village, 15-year-old Mina is forced to marry a cruel man as punishment for her brother's crime. Locked in a small, barren room for 30 years, her only refuge is her imagination and the view from a tiny barred window. The Window (2024)is a tragic and beautiful film showing how Mina survives this travesty of women’s rights and devastating abuse by escaping into her imagination.
This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) is a slim novel that leaves you wanting more. A largely epistolary book, it starts with a letter found amongst the ashes of a destroyed world. Readers will find out that this and the following messages are correspondence between Red and Blue, two skilled agents on opposite sides of a time war.
Visit local author tables on the library’s main floor from 1-4 pm on Saturday, April 26! Authors will have copies of their books to sell.
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For generations, Rhea Silvia’s family ruled Alba Longa, but the deaths of her mother and brothers leave her father broken and unable to remain , allowing her uncle Amulius to seize the throne. Forced into service as a Vestal Virgin to prevent heirs that could rule instead of Amulius, Rhea plans revenge. Rhea’s secret affair with Mars, the god of war results in the birth of twins, Romulus and Remus, who will one day reclaim the kingdom.
When I first ran across Dungeons and Drama , I was super excited to sit down and read it. A romance about D&D, a game store, musical theater, AND the cover is colorful enough to grab your eye? [Plus it's part of a series] Heck yeah, right?
Raised by a Serial Killer (2024) by April Balascio is a memoir by the daughter of Edward Wayne Edwards, whose crimes went unpunished for decades until April, who long suspected that her father was a murderer, called a cold case line in 2009, and helped finally bring her father to justice.