FEBRUARY 2024 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Toddler Time Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m.
PALS are taking donations of new and used books for their March Madness Book Sale. Please bring donations to the library during open hours.
Poetry Club Wednesday, February 21st @ 1:00 p.m.
Tom Milligan presents “Grant Wood: Prairie Rebel Saturday, February 24th 10:00-11:00 a.m. In this 45-minute, one-man show, Grant Wood chats with the audience as if talking to an old friend across the backyard fence, or maybe at his home at Five Turner Alley in Cedar Rapids. He tells us about his life and how he changed the art world forever with his work. It is the man behind American Gothic that we hear and see, and the story of how he took the moments, the memories and the people of our state to show the whole world the specialness of this Iowa. After the presentation, the audience is encouraged to ask questions about Grant Wood and his life.
PALS meeting Monday, February 26th @ 6:00 p.m.
Toastmasters Wednesday, February 28th @ 12:00 noon.
Nine Squared Feet Seed Swap & Giveaway Saturday, March 2nd 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Book Club Monday, March 4th @ 5:00 p.m.
Books & Badges with Sergeant Katie Thursday, March 7th @ 10:00 a.m.
PALS BOOK SALE March 11th – 16th during library hours.
6-on-6 Girls’ Basketball in Iowa: Traditions, Transitions, and Legacies featuring Jennifer Sterling Saturday, March 16th @10:00 a.m. Humanities Iowa speaker.
Stay Independent Series March 14, 21, 28 @ 2:00 p.m.
NEW BOOKS
Always Remember by Mary Balogh.’A romance writer of mesmerizing intensity, Mary Balogh has the gift of making a relationship seem utterly real and utterly compelling’ Mary Jo Putney
The Bad Weather Friend by Dean R. Koontz. Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. Inside the crate is a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
Double Take by Lynette Eason. USA Today bestselling author Lynette Eason will leave you breathless with this fast-paced first book in a brand-new series.
Everyone Who can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny Hollander. She has everything to live for—and everything to hide.
Family Family by Laurie Frankel. “Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ever get that movie?”
The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr. Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed.
The Fury by Alex Michaelides. “You’ll think you know where it’s going and you couldn’t be more wrong.” – Linwood Barclay.
Harbor Lights: Stories by James Lee Burke. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.
Here, Where Death Delights: A Literary Memoir by Mary Jumbelic, M.D. Dr. Jumbelic developed a way to honor the person’s life by speaking for them in courts, classrooms, and interviews. How did she finally integrate death into her own life so filled with hope? This is her journey.”–Amazon.com
Outlawed by Anna North. The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.
You Only Call Me When You are in Trouble by Stephen McCauley. “Funny, poignant, joyous, explosive, but most of all affirming of our connections to one another. You Only Call When You’re in Trouble is a book to cherish. A book that loves you back. What more could you want, my gosh? Read it!”
—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost