What you need to know:
- Your team captain will sign up to be one of eight teams to compete at one of our four CLP locations in June
- If you are the first or second place winner at one of the CLP locations, you will be invited to compete in the Championship Battle on Thursday, September 24 at Hazelwood Brew House
Preliminary battles will be hosted at:
- CLP – Beechview on Tuesday, June 9 from 5:30-8:00 PM – REGISTER HERE
- CLP – Squirrel Hill on Thursday, June 11 from 5:30-8:00 PM
- CLP – East Liberty on Tuesday, June 16 from 5:30-8:00 PM
- CLP – Lawrenceville on Thursday, June 18 from 5:30-8:00 PM
The event will begin at 5:30 pm with the game starting at 6 pm sharp. All the questions for the preliminary battles will be taken from the following five books.
NOTE: You and your team can only sign up for one location event.
You can sign up for a free library card here.
If you need help using our Digital Media tools to access these selections, visit our Online Resources Support page.
If you’re looking for more book suggestions, we’re happy to recommend them to you! Use this Book Recommendation form to send us some information about what you like to read and we’ll curate a list just for you.
If you have any additional questions, you can call us at 412-622-3114 or email us at info@carnegielibrary.org. You can find additional ways to contact us on the Need Help? page.
In the Catalog
Atmosphere
A Love Story
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece Frances–that is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. … As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
From the Catalog
How to Solve your Own Murder
A Novel
Kristen Perrin
A dual-narrative, feel-good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt’s death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer.
From the Catalog
Portrait of A Thief
A Novel
Grace D. Li
A group of twenty-somethings is recruited to steal looted art from world museums and bring it back to China. If they succeed, each of them will be richer than they can imagine. If they fail, it’s the end of any futures they hope to have.
From the Catalog
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
Mika Moon is an Instagram witch who can’t catch a break, hiding her real magical powers behind her online identity. Jamie is a sulky librarian helping with the caretaking of two baby witches along with a sweet older couple. These two are definitely falling for each other, but Mika is even more in love with the magical family she has been welcomed into and will do anything to stay.
