Harris County Public Library

10/21/2026

10/20/2026

Dig into the most common garden myths with this month's Green Thumb episode with Harris County Master Gardeners!

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We'll dig into the most common myths, uncover what really works, an...

10/19/2026

Get ready to vote! 🗳️

The League of Women Voters’ Houston Voters Guide is available in print at HCPL branches and as an e-book on Libby. League of Women Voters - Houston

Early voting is open October 19–30.
Head to hcpl.net to find early voting locations and learn how to prepare before heading to the polls.

10/19/2026

10/19/2026

Clifford, the big red… pumpkin?! 🎃

We’ve started rolling out our staff-decorated pumpkins as Halloween gets closer and closer! What characters are you painting or carving on your pumpkins this year?

10/19/2026

Stop by Barbara Bush Branch Library to celebrate their 50th anniversary!

💛 It's our 50th anniversary week!
October 19-23rd come and celebrate with us at the library. To kick things off we will have 100 golden bookmarks hidden in the shelves upstairs for you to find.
Finders keepers but only one per patron so choose wisely. Can you guess what genres or books each might represent? Which one are you going to hunt for?

10/19/2026

Early voting is here!

Head over to hcpl.net to find a voting location near you and resources so you can be prepared!

10/18/2026

In honor of the Halloween season, here are books for every age group that give you that Scooby-Doo feeling: https://bit.ly/4ipkI9Z

In honor of the Halloween season, here are books for every age group that give you that Scooby-Doo feeling. Some are cozy mysteries, others have haunted houses, and others feature animal sidekicks. There's plenty here to keep you entertained.

10/17/2026

"Somewhere in northeast Harris County in the year 2000, a reference book went missing from a library shelf. It was a heavy, expensive volume, the kind that might sit on a library shelf untouched for weeks, and in a room with thousands of books, one gap is easy to overlook. But it happened again, and then again at another branch, and then again at another, and another...

Over ten months, someone quietly walked out of several Harris County Public Libraries with hundreds of reference books worth tens of thousands of dollars. This is the story"

The Great Library Heist of 2000 is the first installment of a three-part series for Gulf Coast Reads, HCPL’s shared reading program. This year’s selection, The Librarians by Sherry Thomas, is a cozy mystery set in an Austin library, making this the perfect time to revisit our own real-life library mystery.

Read the first blog here: https://bit.ly/3VQBGGr

This is the first installment of a three-part series for Gulf Coast Reads, HCPL’s shared reading program. This year’s selection, The Librarians…