ALT Collage: close-up headshot of a Lindsay Currie at left beside two illustrated YA mystery book covers — "The Secret Bookstore Sleuth Society" showing teens with flashlights in a bookstore, and "X Marks the Haunt" with ghostly hands reaching for a glowing key.
ALT Guest sitting by a window on a couch, using a tablet with a keyboard and stylus to study while a notebook with notes rests beside her.
ALT Lindsay seated at a table, leaning on folded arms and looking at the camera while working on a laptop.
ALT Book cover for Jodi Picoult's novel Hollow Bones with bold yellow author and title text over a shattered blue-mosaic background that opens to a bright sky with white clouds and three birds in flight.
ALT Three colorful children's books about Diwali laid on a light surface: two storybooks showing smiling children and glowing oil lamps (diyas) and a Crayola book featuring rangoli patterns and henna-decorated hands.
ALT Two brown seed-library packets labeled "Seed Library" with a sprouting-shovel logo and "Darien Garden Club" sponsor text, resting on potting soil beside black seed trays.
ALT Tall deciduous tree topped with dense red, orange, and rust-colored autumn foliage.
ALT Library bookshelf stocked with colorful paperback and hardcover fiction arranged upright.
ALT Hiring announcement reading "we're hiring" in large navy type on an orange background with a tilted red banner saying "JOIN OUR TEAM" and the Indian Prairie Public Library logo at the bottom.
ALT Large box of Cheerios cereal sits on a dark tabletop next to three canned goods.
ALT Book cover titled "The Great Gift of the Great Buffalo" showing a Native girl holding a smoking bowl as the smoke shapes into a translucent buffalo above a row of tipis.
ALT Library program where participants create bird collages on aged book pages — two guests each display finished crow artworks, while a group cuts and glues at a long checkered table.
ALT Promotional collage: close-up portrait of Lindsay Currie beside two book covers — "The Secret Bookstore Sleuth Society" and "X Marks the Haunt."
ALT A hand holds a smartphone displaying the SWAN Libraries+ app with Fiction, Nonfiction, and Youth sections showing book covers and filter tags like Best Sellers and New Fiction, against blurred bookshelves in the background.
ALT Round "I VOTED" stickers featuring blue stars and red stripes in a half-flag design scattered across a white tabletop.
ALT A cartoon detective in a gray trench coat and fedora inspects something through a magnifying glass held by a mechanical arm, standing confidently on a blue background beside the white "kanopy kids" logo.
ALT Children's board-book cover showing Elmo and Rosita celebrating Day of the Dead with colorful papel picado, a decorated sugar skull, pan de muerto bread, and marigold flowers; title reads "The Day of the Dead on Sesame Street!"
ALT Outdoor Halloween storytime: an adult in a blue bird costume reads a picture book to three children in Halloween costumes seated on hay bales.
ALT Library outreach table for Indian Prairie Public Library at a parking-lot event; a smiling staff member wearing a colorful cape and sunglasses holds a black cat plush in front of a blue SUV while the table displays flyers, pencils, hand sanitizer, and a Halloween candy bowl.
ALT Smiling staff member behind an outdoor kids' reading table holding a purple-flamed ghost-lantern plush; the table shows children's books, lollipops, and signup flyers.
ALT Library staff member in bright teal "Indian Prairie Public Library" shirt wearing a playful blue bird costume with oversized paper eyes and yellow beak, leaning forward hands on hips at an outdoor parking-lot event with an info table nearby.
ALT Trick-or-treat hours 2026 — Darien: no set hours (children encouraged to go during daylight); Willowbrook: 2–7 p.m.; Burr Ridge: 3–7 p.m.; reminder to trick-or-treat safely on Saturday, Oct. 31.
ALT Library tote from Indian Prairie Public Library holding recent checkouts: Karin Slaughter hardcover "We Are All Guilty Here," a Playaway audiobook, and Peanuts and Fantastic Four DVDs.