Competitive readers, it is time to wipe off your reading glasses, sharpen your pencils and put on the coffee: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce that Adult Battle of the Books, the book-based trivia showdown, will return for 2024. This year, you’ll be excited to learn that Adult Battle of the Books has expanded to more locations with an additional championship round.
What’s Different for 2024? Your team will sign up as one of the eight teams to compete at one of our four CLP locations in July. If you are the first or second place winner at one of the CLP locations, you will be invited to compete in the Championship Round in October Get your team together and sign up for a night of competitive book trivia at one of four locations!
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Shannon Chakraborty spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio from Libby and as an eBook and eAudio from Hoopla.
Quite possibly the most heart-warming book you will ever read. Linus, a stuffy government worker, goes to inspect a foster-care situation with magical children deemed incredibly dangerous by someone (?) (the government probably) but he comes to learn that the kids, as well as their eccentric foster parent Arthur Parnassus, are a lot more than they seem. You can also check out this title as eBook on Libby or as eAudio on Libby.
Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio from Libby and as an eBook and eAudio from Hoopla.
Grief is slowly integrating itself into Feyi Adekola’s life five years after her true love was killed. She is ready to seriously consider dating and has even found what seems like the perfect guy. If only she didn’t find his father so attractive. Life is never simple, Feyi is starting to find out.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on OverDrive/Libby and in eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.
