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Everything You Need to Spice Up Your Winter!

Thanks for signing up for our Winter Reading Challenge. To get you started, we've prepared some curated lists for you to order from us or download!



Youth Winter Reading List



Young Adult Winter Reading List



Adult Winter Reading List

Spice Up Your Winter (Ages 7-13)

Are you participating in our Kids Winter Reading program this year? Enjoy this guide of cooking/food themed titles you can download or order from us today!



Youth Ages 7-13



Lights, Camera, Cook! by Charise Mericle Harper DB089255

Spice Up Your Winter Reading List (Ages 11 & Up)

Are you participating in our Kids Winter Reading program this year? Enjoy this guide of cooking/food themed titles you can download or order from us today!



Ages 11 & Up



Slider by Pete Hautman BR022132, DB089272

Writing Contest Winners

We are pleased to present the stories from the 2020 and 2021 Writing Contests in an audio format! Each of the entries were judged based on their clarity, spelling, grammar, creativity, and impact. We received so many fantastic entries and the judging process was difficult.

Adult Summer Reading List 2022

ABLS Adult Summer Reading List for 2022. This year's theme is Oceans of Possibilities.

A New Allen's List - Merry Pranksters and The Grateful Dead

Perhaps in 1964, if you are old enough; you heard about a bus painted in psychedelic colors named Furthur being driven across the country by a promising young writer named Ken Kesey. Accompanying him were an assorted group of artists, aging beatniks, writers and just people along for the journey

NCLBPH Kids Summer Reading

Summer Reading suggestions for NCLBPH's younger patrons

The Latest Allen's List

On this edition of Allen's List just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day, a few books about Ireland

The Latest Allen's List

During the late 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of writers known as “The Beats”. Here a few books by and about The Beat writers

The Latest Allen's List

The latest Allen's List features books on foreign policy and diplomacy. It requires a combination of finesse and bluntness. An appreciation of nuance. Here are a few books by those who have either practiced the craft or books about those who done so.