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Photo Credit:Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest According to a CNN report by Melodi Smith , Harper Lee is finally ready to give her world-famous novel the digital treatment. Pulitzer-prize winner "To Kill a Mockingbird" follows a young girl named Scout and her lawyer father's fight to defend an African American man accused of rape in the 1930s. The book was adapted for the screen as a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. It also marked the film debut of Robert Duvall. Can't wait until the e-book is released by HarperCollins on July 8th? Be sure to check out a copy of the film or book from your library!   Smith, Melodi. " Harper Lee OKs e-book version of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' ." CNN . Turner Broadcasting System, Inc, 29 April 2014. Web. 29 April 2014. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) - PECK, GREGORY; BADHAM, MARY. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 29 Apr 2014.  http://quest.eb.com/images/144_1540387  

Photo Credit:Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has more than a future grandchild to celebrate. The former First Lady also has a new book on the way. Hard Choices will give readers a look into her four-year tenure as Secretary of State. Be sure to look for it in your library when it is released by Simon & Schuster on June 10th . In the meantime, check out Clinton's previous memoir Living History . Read more about Hard Choices at TIME . DNC National Convention. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 20 Apr 2014. http://quest.eb.com/images/142_2315053  

April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate by reading poems penned by your favorite writers, or delve into the carefully crafted words of someone new. Check out some of our favorite poets and poetry books below, or see what else we have in the new online catalog .  Selected Poems by W. H. Auden    The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes  Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein             Shout! Little Poems that Roar by Brod Bagert      The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family By John Lithgow