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Kingwood Building Is Taking Shape

Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 4:00pm

The below images are of the construction site for the new Kingwood Branch Library. In the past month, additional sheathing has been added to the building. The new facility is scheduled for completion in late 2009.

Kingwood staff has put together a composit image showing the building sites and surrounding streets.

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Houston Family Book List - August 2009

Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 12:00am

Houston Family LogoHCPL's Book Bites column appears monthly in Houston Family Magazine.  Each column features suggested books for toddlers through teens.  Get the new list every month in the magazine, available at all of our branches. Previous columns.

This month our selections are customer reviews from this 2009 Summer Reading Program.

Toddlers (Ages 1-3)

Books for the Beach

Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:07am

Are you planning a trip to the beach and looking for something to read?  Take some inspiration from NPR.  NPR asked their book-loving listeners to pick their best beach reads in a Best Beach Books Ever poll.  The top pick, not surprisingly, is the Harry Potter series.  The top five books are:

Welcome to Our Redesign Preview

Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:09pm

Welcome to a preview of our redesign.  As you can probably tell, we've made some changes, but hopefully they are not too drastic.  Some of the major changes are:

The redesign will launch as the new website in early August.  If you have feedback, please either leave a comment below or send us feedback.

 

Pendragon Ends

Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:22am

Soldiers of HallaThis morning, on my way to work, I finished listening to The Soldiers of Halla, the final book in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale.

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