Douglas County Libraries is offering a new series of business programs to complement its BizInfo suite of services. DCL will offer at least three programs each month targeting entrepreneurs and small business owners.

The first meeting of the Castle Pines Business Book Club will be held at the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, February 4. The Highlands Ranch Business Book Club meets the same day at noon at Tattered Cover Book Store in the Highlands Ranch Town Center.

Douglas County Libraries brings you its 2010 Youth Spring Reading Program, Hop to It! Kids ages 12 and under may register at any Douglas County Library location from February 1 to March 15. Participants with reading logs showing 12 hours of reading completed before March 29 will be eligible to receive a free book. As always, pre-readers may participate by listening to books read aloud. Prizes are not guaranteed and are available while supplies last.

To complement its spring reading program, DCL has partnered with the Denver Zoo to bring live amphibians to Douglas County Libraries locations. Children ages five and older are invited to get up close and personal with frogs, toads and salamanders. Registration is required. Call 303-791-7323, or visit any Douglas County Library branch.

Anne Hillerman, author and daughter of late novelist Tony Hillerman, and her husband, photographer Don Strel, will present photographic images of Tony Hillerman’s landscape and discuss the elder Hillerman’s best-selling mysteries and the landscape that shaped his stories.

Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn was released Oct. 27, 2009. Anne Hillerman and Don Strel spent three years traveling Indian Country to capture the striking setting of Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn’s adventures. Books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Tattered Cover Bookstore.

Douglas County Library Foundation and Highlands Ranch Library are proud to present an evening with award-winning author Chris Bohjalian. The February 13 event will include a 6 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. discussion. Bohjalian is the author of 12 novels including the New York Times bestsellers Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. He will discuss his newest book, Secrets of Eden, a story of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.