DECEMBER 2023 CALENDAR
Library will be closed December 23 – 26 & December 30 – January 2, 2024
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Toddler Time off this week and next week.
LEGO STEM with ISU Extension Friday, December 22 @ 3:00 p.m.
Toastmasters December 27 @ 5:00 p.m.
Family Craft Activity available all-day December 27
ISU Extension presents “Drones at the Library” December 28 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. or 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Family Activity available all-day December 29.
Gentle Yoga Mondays & Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m. The class is currently full, however if you wish to be added to the waiting list, call Amy 515-771-8550.
NEW BOOKS
Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto. A wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
Her Secret Hope by Shelley Shepard Gray. For Lilly, the Amish town of Pinecraft is a chance to start again. But then she meets Eddie, a man with no plans to stay–a man she can’t stop thinking about. She must decide whether to give him up or face her past and hope that their love will endure.
The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright. When Greta Mercy’s brothers disappear from the Barlowe Theater in 1915, she will do anything to uncover what threat lurks beneath the stage. Decades later, revealing what happened to the boys falls on Kit Boyd, who must determine whether she’s willing to pay the price to end the pattern of evil that has marked their hometown for a century.
Sammy Espinoza’s Last Review by Tehlor Kay Mejia. “This immersive tale will have everyone flipping pages.”—Good Morning America
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe. From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman’s unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.