by Lisa Sherman, Director
Open Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, visit www.stuartlibrary.org or call 515-523-2152.
Cribbage players gather Tuesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon
Chair Yoga is offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 to 10:45 a.m.
Toastmasters meet every Tuesday @ 7:45 a.m.
Toddler Time Thursdays 10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Sewing Club Wednesday, the 23rd and Thursday, the 24th of September. Drop in hours: 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Book Club Monday, October 5th @ 5:00 p.m.
Early-Out B.I.N.G.O. Wednesday, October 7th @ 3:00 p.m.
Trustee Meeting Monday, October 19th @ 5:30 p.m. Open to the public.
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, November 5th @ 6:00 p.m. Foundation Auction
New Books & DVD
Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith; illustrations by Iain McIntosh. Bertie Pollack has clear feelings about ice cream: “When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven’t got any, you should share it, if you can.”
The Boat House by Fern Michaels. Running their inherited marina in a quirky, picturesque New Jersey shore town, siblings Madison and Lincoln Wainright discover what could be a map to Captain Kidd’s lost treasure.
Brain Damage by Freida McFadden. How can you survive when you can’t remember who wants you dead? Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome husband who adored her. Until the night a bullet tore through her skull… and stole everything.
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About it by Cory Doctorow. Enshittification: It’s not just you, the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not going to fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.
Fury in Death by J.D. Robb. NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office, but what was Larry Chu’s mistake?
Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier. Twenty-five years ago, in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered.
How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop by Poppy Alexander. After a social media post gone wrong, a literary agent runs away to look after a seaside bookshop for the summer, and forms an unlikely friendship with a charming novelist struggling with his latest idea.
Nettles & Petals: Grow Food. Eat Weeds. Save Seeds by Jamie Walton. An ideal self-purchase or a gift for the green enthusiast in your life, Nettles & Petals is perfect for anyone curious about gardening sustainably.
An Ordinary Sort of Evil by Kelley Armstrong. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid Catriona Mitchel. Although it isn’t what she expected, she’s developed real, meaningful relationships with the people around her and has come to love her role as assistant to undertaker Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie.
The True Meaning of Love by Danielle Steel. February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country.