• Isn’t easily defined, a chameleon

• Up for anything

• Motto - "Different is good." The Eclectic is a total mixed bag. Quirky and eccentric, there’s usually at least one in every friend circle. The Eclectic is the first to try the latest off-the-wall trend, or, better yet, the actual trendsetter (although they probably wouldn’t like be-ing labeled as such). When it comes to media consumption, the Eclectic tends to gravitate towards odd formats and riffs on the norm.

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1 Con� Parkway, Elmwood Park, IL 60707

708.453.7645 | www.elmwoodparklibrary.org

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1 Con� Parkway, Elmwood Park, IL 60707

708.453.7645 | www.elmwoodparklibrary.org

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S., J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

This interactive story within a story in-volves one book, two readers, mystery, menace, and desire.

Horrorstör, Grady Hendrix

A traditional haunted house story that comes packaged in the form of a retail catalog.

Tigerman, Nick Harkaway

If Stan Lee and Kurt Vonnegut had gotten the chance to write a novel together it might read a little like Tigerman.

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

An elaborately plotted, page-turning thriller that incorporates fictional mixed-media supplemental “clues” to further the story along.

When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Kathleen Founds

A high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time.

Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle

A dark, nerdy narrative puzzler penned by a well renowned musician.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson’s latest cinematic spectacle details the adventures of a hotel concierge and his lobby boy in 1930s Europe.

Her

A lonely writer develops an unlikely rela-tionship with his newly purchased operat-ing system that's designed to meet his every need.

Only Lovers Left Alive

Jim Jarmusch is here to tell you immortality is exhausting, folks - vampires have prob-lems, too. A lush, melancholy love story that is literally centuries old.

Fargo (Season One) The TV show features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem, and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film.

Cutie and the Boxer (Documentary)

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.

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Primus & the Chocolate Fac-tory with the Fungi Ensemble

A re-imagining of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack.

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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, Tom Robbins

Robbins’s life reads like his novels - one big, zany, bohemian roller coaster of fun.

Box Girl: My Part Time Job as an Art Installation, Lilibet Snellings

A witty coming-of-age tale about a wom-an’s experience as a live art exhibit at a boutique hotel in West Hollywood.

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, Ian Doescher

Epic meets epic. A galaxy far, far away reimagined through iambic pentameter and woodcut illustrations.

The Ghost Apple, Aaron Their

If you like to laugh and poke fun at academia (sometimes simultaneously), then this is the book for you.

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Ant Colony, Michael DeForge

This brightly illustrated tale of insect war is one psychedelic trip down the ant hole.