Your Black Friday through Cyber Every Day hack: skip the chaos & borrow what you need. Books, movies, streaming, video games, classes — all free with your MCPL card. Get yours at mcpl.link/library-card or the link in our profile. | Montgomery County Public Libraries

📚 Books unite us. Censorship divides us. These powerful stories have all faced bans or challenges—but their voices continue to inspire readers everywhere. Featured titles: ✨ Tricks by Ellen Hopkins ✨ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ✨ Looking for Alaska by John Green ✨ Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo ✨ All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson ✨ Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews ✨ This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson ✨ Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe Celebrate your fre

Thank you to everyone who came out to our 1st annual Local Author Showcase last weekend at the Wheaton Library & Community Center! Many thanks to our regional authors who spent so much time with our community, sharing your books & insights on writing & publishing! @folmcmd for the bookstore & other support, our Library Advisory Committee members who showed up to support, staff, volunteers, Holly & Theo with Read to a Dog & of course all of our awesome customers! We’ll see you next year! And see

🎮 New video game collection unlocked! 👾 Borrow games for Xbox, PS5 & Switch! 🔗 Visit mcpl.link/video-games to browse & borrow! | Montgomery County Public Libraries

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by reading Indigenous authors whose work honors culture, identity, resistance, and imagination. 📚✨ Featured titles: • Reservation Blues — Sherman Alexie • Living Nations, Living Words — ed. Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek) • Gathering Moss — Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) • Good Friday on the Rez — David G. Browne • There There — Tommy Orange (Cheyenne & Arapaho) • Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit — Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) •

“I’ve always been an avid reader…We didn’t take vacations but the space that we spent was in our library.” Maryland Sen. @corymccray shares his appreciation for his mother prioritizing reading & libraries, his early win of the Race to Read, & what going to the main Baltimore Library to accept the prize meant to him as a child. Thanks to Sen. McCray for visiting the Rockville Memorial Library to share his story, his book, & inspiration from his journey as an electrician and an elected official. C