Best Movies and Music of 2021 | Librarian List
Orem Library staff members are excited to bring you our favorite movies and music released in 2021! Stop by Orem Library to check out these picks today, or remember them for your next movie
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The Rig | Patron Review
The Rig By Joe DucieTeen Fiction The Rig is the first book in a series by Joe Ducie. I picked up this book to read aloud with my 13 year old son. He typically is only interested in
Best Adult Books of 2021 | Librarian List
Orem Library staff continues our best-of series with a list of our favorite adult books released in 2021. According to our librarians, here are the best general fiction and non-fiction books
Best Children’s Books of 2021 | Librarian List
Each year, Orem Library staff compile a list of our favorite books, movies, and music released in that year. Past lists featured now classics like We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, Super
Fast Cakes | Book Review
Fast Cakes is an exciting cookbook full of treasured recipes from Mary Berry: a baking expert and judge of The Great British Baking Show.
Learn to Sew | Librarian List
Have you ever wanted to learn to sew but don’t want to spend the money on a machine or expensive patterns and tools? The Orem library can help you make something fun for pennies on the
A Christmas Carol | Actor Interview
A Christmas Carol, the one-man show by Brian Johnson, will be performed on December 16 at Orem Library's Ashton Auditorium.
Books about Pearl Harbor | Librarian List
Eighty years ago, the surprise military strike on Pearl Harbor occurred, officially prompting the United States to enter World War II. Though this event happened nearly a century ago,
Holiday Short Stories | Librarian List
Between the shopping and the wrapping and the decorating and the baking and the parties, the holiday concerts and plays at schools, the mad idea you get two days before Christmas to bake
Minari | Film Review
Minari (2021, PG-13) Directed by Lee Isaac ChungDVD The year 2020 was full of surprises and postponements as we all found ways to confront and live with the new coronavirus and its effects.
Nine New Memoirs | Librarian List
While biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs take different approaches, they have the same goal — sharing the experiences of an individual. Memoirs do this rather intimately: they
Children’s Book Week | Best New Books for Kids
Some of my fondest memories as a child are when my parents would take me to the library and I could sift through the picture and chapter books in the children’s section. I’ve often returned
The Haunting of Alma Fielding | Spooky Staff Pick
The Haunting of Alma Fielding : A True Ghost Story By Kate SummerscaleAdult Nonfiction Kate Summerscale’s The Haunting of Alma Fielding takes place in London, on the eve of World War
How To Quilt | Librarian List
If it seems to you like everyone is into quilting, you aren’t mistaken. There are between 7 and 10 million quilters in the United States. Orem is home to one of Utah’s largest quilt guilds,
Best Teen Books Set in Appalachia | Librarian List
Each year the librarians at the Orem Library pick one book to read as a community. This fall, we’ve traveled to the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina for The Ballad