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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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Community Services

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

SPARK Space

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

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SCPL Mobile App

Get the free SCPL Mobile App for 24/7 access to library services.

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Todd Stephens

County Librarian

151 S. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306

(864)596-3500

Upcoming Events for Adults

Books for Adults

AS THE WICKED WATCH.

Best in snowpages cm

The brides of Maracoor : a novel384 p.

Capote%27s women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an erapages cm

A Christmas courtshippages cm.

Claws for alarm(ON ORDER, PUB. DATE IS OCTOBER, 2021) pages : illustrations ; 25 centimeters.

The death of Jane Lawrence362 pages ; 24 cm

IN THE COMPANY OF WITCHES.

An Irish country Yuletidepages cm.

The Joy and Light Bus Companypages cm

The last guest : a novelpages cm

LOVE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE.1 volume.

MANGO, MAMBO, AND MURDER.

The nameless onespages cm.

NO ONE WILL MISS HER.

ON GIRLHOOD : 15 stories from the well-read black girl library.

ONCE UPON A SEASIDE MURDER.

The party crasher : a novelpages cm

Reprieve : a novelpages cm

A season of change : an Amish inn novelpages cm.

Silverview215 pages ; 24 cm

Three sisterspages cm

Twisted tea Christmas328 pages ; 21 cm.

Unprotected1 volume ; 23 cm

The wandering earthpages cm

When two feathers fell from the skypages cm

Revolutionary War

Alexander Hamilton : the graphic history of an American founding father169 pages : color illustations ; 26 cm

The American Revolution : a visual history.360 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm

The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of Americaxiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Crescent moon over Carolina : William Moultrie and American libertyxvi, 362 pages ; 24 cm

The day the Revolution ended, 19 October 1781ix, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

A devil of a whipping : the Battle of Cowpensxxi, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Daniel Morgan : a revolutionary lifexx, 376 pages ; 23 cm

The first conspiracy : the secret plot to kill George Washingtonx, 413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American west, 1765-1776.xxvi, 268 pages: maps; 25 cm

General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the Southvi, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

George Washington%27s secret spy war : the making of America%27s first spymasterviii, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

God of liberty : a religious history of the American Revolutionvi, 298 p. ; 25 cm.

Haunted U.S. battlefields : ghosts, hauntings, and eerie events from America%27s fields of honorx, 197 p. ; 22 cm.

How the French saved America : soldiers, sailors, diplomats, Louis XVI, and the success of a Revolutionviii, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, map, color ; 24 cm

The Howe dynasty : the untold story of a military family and the women behind Britain%27s wars for Americaxiii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm

The indispensables : the diverse soldier-mariners who shaped the country, formed the Navy, and rowed Washington across the Delawarexiii, 415 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Mapping America : the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United Statesxv, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Musgrove Mill historic siteix, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Native Americans in the American Revolution : how the war divided, devastated, and transformed the early American Indian worldxxx, 225 pages ; 25 cm

Never caught : the Washingtons%27 relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judgexvii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters%27 eyes389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

The Quaker and the Gamecock : Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the soul of the Southxviii, 222 pages : Illustrations ; 24 cm

Revolution song : a story of American freedomxii, 621 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolutionxiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.

The struggle for sea power : a naval history of the American Revolutionxxxiv, 572 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Turning point : the American Revolution in the Spartan District150 p. ; 22 cm.

Valcour : the 1776 campaign that saved the cause of libertyx, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Winning independence : the decisive years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781xxvii, 701 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

You never forget your first : a biography of George Washingtonxl, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 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. 5 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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What to Read Next

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Adults Newsletter

Upcoming events & programs for adults at the Headquarters Library.

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.

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.

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

Local Music Collection

Newspaper

Employment & Business

Yoga Pose

Fitness Classes

SCPL offers a variety of fitness classes for all fitness levels.

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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 Teen Books

Act cool343 pages ; 22 cm

As good as dead : the final good girl%27s guide to murder novel458 pages ; 22 cm.

Before we disappear492 pages ; 21 cm

The bones of ruin477 pages ; 24 cm.

Burden Falls347 pages ; 22 cm

The buried : no light ; no contact ; nowhere to hide326 pages ; 22 cm

Cheer up! : love and pompoms127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm

Dagger Hill324 pages ; 22 cm

Dark and shallow lies416 pages ; 22 cm

Escape from the Evergladesiii, 457 pages ; 21 cm.

Euphoria kids252 pages ; 20 cm.

For all time353 pages ; 22 cm

Forestborn354 pages : map ; 22 cm

Hello (from here)341 pages ; 22 cm

In the wild light421 pages ; 22 cm

Marie Curie : a quest for light [graphic]1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Mark of the wicked341 pages ; 22 cm

Me (Moth)248 pages ; 22 cm

Other boys201 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm

Punderworldvolumes : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm

Take me with you when you go328 pages ; 22 cm

This is why we lie312 pages ; 22 cm

We can be heroes356 pages ; 22 cm

Your life has been delayed374 pages ; 22 cm

Creep It Real

Ballad for a mad girl309 pages . ; 20 cm

Black butlerv. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.

The crossroads at midnight351 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.

Deadly perils : and how to avoid them1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 18 cm

The drifting classroomvolumes <1- > : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm

Eat your heart out348 pages ; 22 cm

Harrow Lake299 pages ; 22 cm

His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe%27s most unsettling tales reimagined470 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

The last Halloweenvolumes : illustrations ; 27 cm

The Mary Shelley Club468 pages ; 22 cm

Mob psycho 100volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm

Monsterology : the fabulous lives of the creepy, the revolting, and the undead95 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

The night wanderer : a native gothic novel215 p. ; 20 cm.

None shall sleep390 pages ; 22 cm

The river has teeth393 pages ; 22 cm

Rules for vanishing402 pages ; 22 cm

Sadako at the end of the world136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Shutter372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Slasher girls and monster boys384 pages ; 24 cm

The taking of Jake Livingston244 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

Teens Instagram Teen Room Image

Follow us @scplteens

Teen Advisory Group

Apply to join TAG.

Girl with Stack of Books

Get Teen Book Suggestions

Volunteens

Earn volunteer credit.

Teen Department Intern

Learn more about our internship for teens.

Teen News Flash newsletters

Virtual Programs

SCPL Teens on Facebook

Like @scplteens for the latest.

Virtual Teen Program Archive

Learn to make crafts, hear from authors, and more in these virtual teen programs!

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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

The boy who made everyone laugh246 pages ; 22 cm

Dear librarian1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Happy cats1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm

A history of music for children96 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

I%27m a feel-o-saur1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Nightingale295 pages ; 22 cm

Over and under the canyon1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.

Rez dogs185 pages ; 22 cm

Sing with me : the story of Selena Quintanilla1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Small nap, little dream1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

That thing about Bollywood344 pages ; 22 cm

Spooky Stories

Fearless232 pages ; 22 cm

The good, the bad, and the spooky1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm + 2 sheets of stickers

Gustavo, the shy ghost1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.

Karma Moon--ghosthunter337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Mr. Pumpkin%27s tea party1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm

The okay witch271 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Pick a pumpkin1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Small spaces218 pages ; 22 cm

Spirit hunters276 pages ; 22 cm

Stumpkin1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Thirteens230 pages : 22 cm.

The wheels on the bus at Halloween1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 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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Featured Downloadables

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

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

Virtual Programs

Upcoming events for Kids & Tweens at the Headquarters Library.

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.

Early Literacy & School Readiness Resources

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

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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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