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  • Book Recs Based on Your Halloween Costume – Adult Edition

    Here are books that should either inspire costume ideas or help you enjoy a costume you've already created for Halloween!

  • Toledo Library Romance-Con Welcomes Christina Lauren

    Toledo Library Romance-Con welcomes Christina Lauren, in conversation with author Nikki Payne on Saturday, November 8.

  • Slow Burn Thrillers with Irresistible Page-Turning Tension

    If you enjoy reading a thriller with a slow, intense reveal of something very, very wrong, look no further! Here's the perfect list for you. Or... is it!?

  • Meet Romance-Con’s 4 Featured Authors

    Meet the featured authors of Toledo Library's 2025 Romance-Con!

  • Renaming the Forgotten! Can You Help Us Identify These People?

    We have 20 images of unidentified people within our Local History collection. Can you help us identify these people?

  • Out of the Coffin, Onto the Page

    These books feature vampires in all shapes and sizes, and the people who hunt them.

  • Grandparents: Celebrating Love Across Generations

    Share a story and celebrate grandparents with these picture books that honor the special bond between children and their grandparents.

  • 5 Queer Graphic Novels for Latinx Cultural Heritage Month

    Celebrate Latinx Cultural Heritage Month with these graphic novels that explore the queer part of the community.

  • Embracing the Flop: The Allure of B Movies and Box-Office Poison

    Some filmmakers are exquisitely talented artists gifting the world with enduring masterpieces. These books aren't about them.

  • 10 Chapter Books Sent to the Big Screen

    Before every great movie, there was a great story. Go from page to screen with this selection of titles!

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  • Book Recs Based on Your Halloween Costume – Adult Edition

    Here are books that should either inspire costume ideas or help you enjoy a costume you've already created for Halloween!

  • Toledo Library Romance-Con Welcomes Christina Lauren

    Toledo Library Romance-Con welcomes Christina Lauren, in conversation with author Nikki Payne on Saturday, November 8.

  • Slow Burn Thrillers with Irresistible Page-Turning Tension

    If you enjoy reading a thriller with a slow, intense reveal of something very, very wrong, look no further! Here's the perfect list for you. Or... is it!?

  • Meet Romance-Con’s 4 Featured Authors

    Meet the featured authors of Toledo Library's 2025 Romance-Con!

  • Renaming the Forgotten! Can You Help Us Identify These People?

    We have 20 images of unidentified people within our Local History collection. Can you help us identify these people?

  • Out of the Coffin, Onto the Page

    These books feature vampires in all shapes and sizes, and the people who hunt them.

  • Grandparents: Celebrating Love Across Generations

    Share a story and celebrate grandparents with these picture books that honor the special bond between children and their grandparents.

  • 5 Queer Graphic Novels for Latinx Cultural Heritage Month

    Celebrate Latinx Cultural Heritage Month with these graphic novels that explore the queer part of the community.

  • Embracing the Flop: The Allure of B Movies and Box-Office Poison

    Some filmmakers are exquisitely talented artists gifting the world with enduring masterpieces. These books aren't about them.

  • 10 Chapter Books Sent to the Big Screen

    Before every great movie, there was a great story. Go from page to screen with this selection of titles!

  • Witch Hunts: Persecuting the Marginalized

    Witch hunts have never been about facts or evidence, but about fear of the unknown. Join us to discuss the ways women were and are targeted for not fitting into society's ideals of womanhood.

  • Holy Toledo! Art Tatum turns 116

    On this date in 1909 Art Tatum was born in Toledo, and as a result jazz would never be quite the same. Celebrate by doing something improvisational!

  • Children’s Books that Celebrate All Things Autumn

    Curl up in the crisp air with a cozy sweater and some hot apple cider. It’s time to read about all things fall!

  • 10 Weird Female-Fronted Punk Bands You Need this Halloween

    Halloween is quickly approaching, and few things are as essential for setting an appropriate Spooky Season tone like a carefully curated soundtrack of horrors.

  • Queer YA to Read During Latinx Cultural Heritage Month

    From zombies to soccer players to demigods, there is huge range of YA titles with queer Latinx characters. Included here are 10 of those titles.

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