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The Cat in the Stacks
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There's no waiting to check out these audiobooks. Use your library card to sign up and listen to audiobooks anytime.

What is Blackstone Unlimited

100

First published in 1876 and named after its inventor, it's the name of the numeric system that many librarians use to shelve and categorize books.

What is the Dewey Decimal System

100

A young Coriolanus Snow struggles with his ability to maintain his family's wealth and power, as well as with a handful of slithering serpents riding a locomotive.

What is Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on a Train

100

The "Orange County Free Library" first opened in a rented room in this city.

What is Santa Ana

100

"I love my white shoes. I love my white shoes. I love my white shoes. I love my white shoes."

Who is Pete the Cat

200

Access live homework help daily from 1pm -10pm. Find resources for test prep, resume writing, skills building, flashcards and more.

What is Brainfuse HelpNow

200

Between 1883 and 1929, this Scottish-American titan of the steel industry funded more than 2,500 libraries bearing his name.

Who is Andrew Carnegie 

200

Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out for him, saving the tiny Whos and fighting for gender equality and women's rights in the Supreme Court.

What is Horton Hears a Who was Ruth Bader Ginsberg

200

Appointed in 2016, she was the first woman and the first Black American to be the Librarian of Congress.

Who is Carla Hayden

200

"...you ruined mom’s dress! Honey, it was ruined when she bought it."

What is the Cat in the Hat

300

Want to learn a new language? This includes over 70 languages, including ESL instruction. 

What is Mango

300

Before libraries, these medieval institutions preserved most ancient manuscripts. 

What are monasteries

300

Jim Hawkins joins a voyage to find a buried treasure on an island, but ends up alone for 18 years where he must contend with a ferocious pack of wild dogs, constantly guard against Aleutian Sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply.

What is Treasure Island of the Blue Dolphins

300

The Library of Congress was founded in 1800 by this US President.

Who is John Adams

300

"When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you'll give him a bathing suit and take him to the beach."

What is If You Give a Cat a Cupcake

400

If you can't get enough of the dumpster fire that is daily news? Try this database with information on today's hottest social issues, includes pro/con arguments. 

What is Opposing Viewpoints

400

It is believed that this Roman leader was responsible for burning down the Library of Alexandria in 48 BCE.

Who was Julius Caesar

400

A young girl survives the deadliest disease in world history only to find that after 34 years going door-to-door, she has outlived her usefulness and must take one final action to prove herself a hero...or a fool.

What is I survived the Black Death of a Salesman

400

She was the first librarian at El Toro Library, opening the new branch on April 11, 1981.

Who was Donna Laffoon

400

"Then the creature starts to climb the group-soft-seat with its deathbaldes! Scritch, scratch. We hear the blades!"

What is Strange Planet: the sneaking, hiding, vibrating creature.

500

Theater nerds rejoice over this resource that offers over 5,000 theatre, music and dance performance videos and audio performances and over 3,000 world music albums. 

What is Alexander Street

500

OC Public Libraries was established in this year.

What is 1921

500

Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself in Camelot, the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae, where an ancient, wicked shadow is growing threatening the world and his captor-turned-lover, Tamlin.

What is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court of Thorns and Roses

500

The first known library was established around 650 BCE in Nineveh, the capital of this ancient empire.

What is Assyria

500

Let's keep in mind that, as much as you adore your domesticated meowkins, that sucker is an opportunistic killer that shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with lions."

What is Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs