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Black dog291 pages ; 24 cm.
Carrie Soto is back : a novelpages cm
Chester Keene cracks the code293 pages ; 22 cm.
Crossfirepages cm.
Daddy and me and the rhyme to be40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Daisy darkerpages cm
Deceptionpages cm.
Diana, William & Harry.
The fort239 pages ; 22 cm.
Gallant338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Girl, forgotten.
HAVEN.
The last way homepages cm.
Let the monster out316 pages ; 22 cm
Lupe Lopez: rock star rules!1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
The most dazzling girl in Berlin410 pages ; 22 cm
Not yet, Yeti1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Okoye to the people277 pages ; 22 cm
Only a monster403 pages ; 22 cm
Other birdspages cm
Overkill
Reckoning : an FBI thriller419 pages ; 24 cm.
Sister friends foreverpages cm
Stay awakepages cm
Sunday pancakes1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Today I%27m strong1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Trigger244 pages ; 22 cm
Vanishing act359 pages ; 22 cm
WHERE THE SKY BEGINS : a novel.1 volume
You%27ve reached Sam296 pages ; 22 cm.

Latest Movies, TV, and Video Games

Ambulance
American rust
Assetto Corsa Competizione: the official GT World Challenge game.
Batwoman. The third and final season.
The Beatles : get back
The contractor
Dashcam
Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness
Downton Abbey : a new era
Everything everywhere all at once
Evil dead: the game
Fantastic beasts. The secrets of Dumbledore
Grantchester. The complete seventh season2 videodiscs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Harlem rising : a community changing the odds
Huda%27s salon
The lost city
Manhunt. Series 2, The night stalker
Memory
New gold mountain. Series 1
New year, new us
Power book II: Ghost. The complete second season
Rutherford Falls. Season one.
The show 22.
Sniper elite 5: France
The spine of night
Through treasure%27s door
Tropico 6.
The unbearable weight of massive talent
The worst person in the world1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
WRC 10: the official game

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African-American History

Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.

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Pronunciator

Personalized language learning. 163 languages to learn (including ASL and ESL). Simple to use, yet remarkably robust. Quality human voices, translations and video.

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Kanopy

Over 30,000 streaming films free with your library card. 5 checkouts per month on iPhone, iPad, android, Appletv, Roku and Chromecast.

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OverDrive eBooks & audiobooks

Over 35,000 audiobooks and eBooks. Checkout up to 15 titles at a time, place up to 20 holds. Patrons can set check out for 7, 14 or 21 days.

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Kennedy Room at SCPL Headquarters Library

Kennedy Room of Local History

Daniel Morgan Monument - Downtown Spartanburg - 1920's era image

Historical Digital Collections

Friends & Volunteers

The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit group whose primary purpose is to support the Spartanburg County Public Libraries.

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Sign up for monthly email newsletters highlighting special events & programs at the Libraries and reading recommendations.

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Community Services

Find out about passport applications, GED program, and more.

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SPARK Space

SCPL makerspace - tinker, create, design, build, and experiment.

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Todd Stephens
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151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306
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Upcoming Events for Adults

Books for Adults

Alias Emma : a novelpages cm
All good people herepages cm
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators%27 Revolution.
The blame gamepages cm
The book eaterspages cm
Breaking History: A White House Memoir.
By way of moonlightpages cm
Codebreaker%27s Secret : A Novel.368 p.
Dirt Creek324 pages ; 25 cm
FAULT TOLERANCE : a novel.
The hookup planpages cm
Husband materialpages cm.
The Ink Black Heart0 p.
The last housewife : a novelpages cm
The last white man180 pages ; 21 cm
Long Past Summer : A Novel.384 p.
Love on the brainpages cm
Mademoiselle revolution420 pages ; 24 cm
The many daughters of Afong Moy : a novelpages cm
Mika in real life : a novel370 pages ; 24 cm.
Properties of thirst a novel544 pages cm
Sold on lovepages cm.
Sophie Go%27s lonely hearts clubpages cm
STORIES FROM THE TENANTS DOWNSTAIRS.
Thank you for listening : a novel404, 12 pages ; 24 cm
The very secret society of irregular witchespages cm
Walking in my joy : stories from on my way to happypages cm
The war librarianpages cm
THE WITCHES OF MOONSHYNE MANOR.
You%27re invitedpages cm

More Heroes of the Second World War

Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War IIx, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Agent Jack : the true story of MI5%27s secret Nazi hunterxiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Brothers down : Pearl Harbor and the fate of the many brothers aboard the USS Arizona337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris324 pages ; 23 cm
Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied Francexxi, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War IIxi, 384 pages : map ; 25 cm
Damn Lucky : one man%27s courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation historyviii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the US during the Second World Warx, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
\Everything we have\ : D-Day, 6.6.44 : the American story of the Normandy landings told through personal accounts, images and artifacts from the collections of The National WWII Museum256 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War IIxx, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The first wave : the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII%27s Mission Impossible360 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Ghost riders : when US and German soldiers fought together to save the world%27s most beautiful horses in the last days of World War IIvii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
The ghost ships of Archangel : the Arctic voyage that defied the Nazis337 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre%27s dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germanyviii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
The immortals : the World War II story of five fearless heroes, the sinking of the Dorchester, and an awe-inspiring rescueviii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
The indomitable Florence Finch : the untold story of a war widow turned resistance fighter and savior of American POWsxxi, 342 pages : 8 pages of photographs (black and white and color), map ; 23 cm
Landing on the edge of eternity : twenty-four hours at Omaha Beachxl, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Madame Fourcade%27s secret war : the daring young woman who led France%27s largest spy network against Hitlerxxiv, 428 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
No surrender : a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europeviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanonesxvii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The race of aces : WWII%27s elite airmen and the epic battle to become the masters of the sky1 volume ; 23 cm
Scholars of mayhem : my father%27s secret war in Nazi-occupied Francexvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
They fought alone : the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied Francexiv, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Valor : the astonishing World War II saga of one man%27s defiance and indomitable spirit337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Whatever it took : an American paratrooper%27s extraordinary memoir of escape, survival, and heroism in the last days of World War II272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The women with silver wings : the inspiring true story of the women Airforce service pilots of World War II435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Novelist Plus

Contains over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, Book Talks, Recommended Reads and more.

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PowerSearch by Gale

Search several available databases simultaneously.

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Featured Downloadables
Hoopla

Borrow videos, audiobooks, music, eBooks & comics. 4 total checkouts per month. Patrons who receive a notice that the library’s daily checkout limit has been reached should try again after midnight.

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Kanopy

Over 30,000 streaming films free with your library card. 5 checkouts per month on iPhone, iPad, android, Appletv, Roku and Chromecast.

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More for Adults

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What to Read Next

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Adults Newsletter

Upcoming events & programs for adults at the Headquarters Library.

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Discussion Groups & Book Club Kits

Want to join a library book discussion group or reserve a book club kit for a book club of your own? See schedule & reservation details.

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Government Information & Law Collections

These collections serve the legal research and government information needs of Spartanburg residents. Includes Immigration & Citizenship Resources.

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Video Release Calendar

Library release dates for upcoming Movies & TV Series.

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Local Music Covers - Daryle Ryce, David Ball, Marshall Tucker, Pink Anderson

Local Music Collection

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SCPL Podcasts

Check out our monthly podcasts, Booklovers & Quote Me

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Andy Flynt
Director of Information Services
151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864)596-3500 x.1217


Jess Herzog
Director of Adult Services
151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864)596-3500 x.1277


Upcoming Events for Teens

New Books for Teens

All signs point to yes320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Blue Lockvolumes : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Button pusher244 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
The fae keeper429 pages ; 22 cm
Hell followed with us398 pages : 21 cm.
I guess I live here now408 pages ; 22 cm
Love radio316 pages ; 22 cm
Miles Morales : Marvel universe1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Out of the blue375 pages ; 22 cm
Out there : into the queer new yonder445 pages ; 22 cm
The peach rebellion406 pages ; 22 cm
Rise of the snake goddess307 pages ; 22 cm.
Rise of the vicious princess415 pages : map ; 22 cm.
See you yesterday419 pages ; 22 cm
The signs and wonders of Tuna Rashad252 pages ; 22 cm
Slip190 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
This wicked fate310 pages ; 22 cm
Two truths and a lie273 pages : map, illustrations 22 cm.
We all fall down406 pages ; 22 cm.
We weren%27t looking to be found312 pages ; 22 cm.

High School Never Ends

Café con Lychee311 pages ; 22 cm.
Dating makes perfect305 pages ; 21 cm
The field guide to the North American teenager372 pages ; 22 cm
The hate u give444 pages ; 22 cm
The henna wars389 pages ; 22 cm
If I%27m being honest359, 12 pages ; 22 cm
My hero academia : school briefs. 1. (Light novel)239 pages : illustrations, some color ; 19 cm
Once upon a K-prom329 pages ; 22 cm
The poet X361 pages ; 22 cm
Riverdale : get out of town283 pages ; 21 cm.
The rumor game471 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Super fake love song : [frankly in love]349 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
That%27s not what I heard356 pages ; 22 cm
There%27s someone inside your house : a novel287 pages ; 22 cm
Twilight498 p. ; 21 cm.
The upside of falling281 pages ; 22 cm

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MasterFILE Premier

MasterFILE Premier contains full text articles for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.

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Tutor.com

Connects students (and parents!) with expert tutors and career coaches in more than 80 subjects and test prep areas.

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Featured Downloadables
OverDrive Teens

Teen eReading Room. Audiobooks and eBooks for Teens. Checkout up to 15 titles at a time, place up to 20 holds. Patrons can set check out for 7, 14 or 21 days.

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Teen BookCloud

Includes graphic novels, enhanced novels, eBooks, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources, and audio books for grades 7-12.

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More for Teens

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Teen Advisory Group

Join the Teen Advisory Group!

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Get Teen Book Suggestions

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Volunteens

Earn volunteer credit.

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Teen Department Intern

Learn more about our internship for teens.

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Teen News Flash newsletters

Teen Events at the HQ Library

SCPL Teens on Facebook

Like @scplteens for the latest.

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Request a tour of the Teen Hub

Classes, camps, and other groups of teens are invited to tour the Teen Hub of the Headquarters Library.

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If you have questions or comments, we'd love to hear from you.


Susan Myers
Director of Teen Services
151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864)596-3500 x.1241


Upcoming Events for Kids

New Books for Kids

Again, Essie?1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Before music : where instruments come from80 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 38 x 26 cm
Hidden animal colors32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Lies I tell myself271 pages ; 22 cm
Lupe Lopez: rock star rules!1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Minecraft amazing bite-size builds : over 20 awesome mini-projects.93 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
The queen of kindergarten1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Sunday pancakes1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Tamarind and the star of Ishta241 pages ; 22 cm
Treasure tracks216 pages ; 22 cm.
Vanishing act359 pages ; 22 cm
Why do I feel so worried? : a kid%27s guide to coping with big emotions-follow the arrows from anxiety to calm143 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Back to School Reads

All%27s faire in middle school247 pages : color ilustrations ; 22 cm
Barakah Beats277 pages ; 22 cm
Becoming Vanessa1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Dear student295 pages ; 22 cm
The King of Kindergarten1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Monsters love school1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
More to the story262 pages ; 22 cm
One kid%27s trash225 pages ; 22 cm
Say it out loud246 pages ; 21 cm
School%27s first day of school36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
We don%27t eat our classmates!1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Your name is a song40 pages : color illustrations ; cm.

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Gale In Context: Elementary

Curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. Covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health and more.

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StudySC

Online content to support SC specific curriculum standards. Created by the South Carolina State Library, StudySC provides a student-friendly environment arranged by grade level & subject area.

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Kanopy

Over 30,000 streaming films free with your library card. 5 checkouts per month on iPhone, iPad, android, Appletv, Roku and Chromecast.

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TumbleBooks

TumbleBooks includes over 500 fiction and non-fiction animated & talking story and chapter books. Also included in the collection are French and Spanish books found in the Language Learning area.

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More for Kids

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Small Talk Spartanburg County

Accelerating language development in children birth to three.

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OverDrive eBooks & audiobooks

Storytime at SCPL Wee Be Jammin

Storytimes & Recurring Programs

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Palmetto Basics

Five fun, simple, and powerful ways to give every child a great start in life.

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Request a Program. A service for organizations serving children from birth to twelve years old.

For Organizations Serving Kids

Child Dialing Phone

Dial a Story: (864) 596-3530

Call (864) 596-3530 anytime to hear a story. Stories updated weekly.

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Early Literacy & School Readiness Resources

Resources that families, parents, caregivers & educators can use to further develop early literacy skills and school readiness.

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Book Club Kits

SCPL offers Book Club in a Bag kits for over 50 children’s fiction titles. Each kit contains 15 copies and can be checked out for 6 weeks.

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Get in touch with us

If you have questions or comments, we'd love to hear from you.


Jessica Lopez
Director of Children's Services
151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864)596-3500 x.1263


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