Library Closed Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May 27.

Austin Public Library facilities and the Austin History Center will be CLOSED Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May 27. Recycled Reads, the Austin Public Library’s used bookstore, will be open Saturday and Sunday, but will be closed on Memorial Day.

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School Crunch Time by teen.services

Are you getting loads of homework piled on at the end of year? Wondering how to prep for the ACT or SAT? Need help with your geometry homework? Have an embarrassing question about your health? We've got answers for you!! Check out our databases, which is just a fancy library term for electronic resource.

Gore Vidal and Child Development by dean.smith

I was reading movie critic David Thomson’s latest, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (2012), and enjoying it so much that I checked out a bunch more of his books including The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, but after a few pages of that one, I decided I'd had enough of Thomson's style for now. Maybe another time.

Un Verano de Aprendizaje y Lectura by marion.rocco

Faltan menos de tres semanas de clases en las escuelas públicas de Austin, y los jóvenes están esperando el inicio del verano con alegría y quizás un poco de impaciencia. Para los niños, los días del verano son días de sol y juego, de piscinas y paletas. Pero para muchos, el verano también presenta un reto académico...

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Cover of the book The monkey wrench gang
By Edward Abbey.
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat in this is a comedic novel of destructive mayhem and outrageous civil disobedience.

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