Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Yoga Tuesdays and Fridays 2 sessions each day: 1st one @ 9:00a.m. and 2nd one @ 10:00 a.m. Call the library for more information. 515.523.2152
Summer Library Program Monday July 14th @ 10:00 a.m. at the Stuart Sports Complex. Color Run & Water Play. We suggest you wear old clothes that can get messy.
Books & Badges Wednesday, July 16th @ 10:00 a.m. Christmas in July! Yes, it is on Wednesday!
Poetry Club Wednesday, July 16th 1:00 p.m.
Teen Time Wednesday’s 3:00 – 5:00 pm. Perler Beads
Mark your calendars for the PALS 3rd Annual Bar Crawl, Saturday, July 26th @ 10:00 p.m. We still need bakers, so call the library to register.
Monday, July 28th Last day to turn in Summer Library Program Reading Logs.
PALS meeting Monday, July 28th @ 6:00 p.m.
New Books
Austin at Sea by Natalie Jenner. In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, have accomplished as much as women are allowed in those days. Chafing against those restrictions and inspired by the works of Jane Austen, they start a secret correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother, now in his nineties.
Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey. When Charlotte Sitterly’s husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of their house by the FBI — and what’s potentially even worse — thrust into the spotlight of the town’s snarky anonymous Instagram account. Cut off from her bank accounts and feeling desperate, Charlotte takes up an acquaintance’s offer to stay at a beachfront former bed-and-breakfast that’s home to a community of single mothers and draws plenty of gossip in the small coastal North Carolina town.
Household Faith: Insights & Musings from Mom-hood by Judith Kay. Household Faith is faith discovered in the midst of everyday living. It is honesty, questions, and second-guesses, with a few answers along the way. It is the realization that life isn’t perfect. It is the laughter of a moment. It is understanding that children are our best teachers. It is the sleepless nights and the pure exhaustion of parenthood. But mostly, it weaves the questions into answers, the tears into joy, and the memories into our soul.
Lethal Prey by John Sandford. Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death. … Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all.
A Mind of Her Own by Danielle Steel. Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened family: her father, a French doctor; her mother, an American nurse; and her maternal grandfather a highly regarded newspaperman back in the Midwest. As it turns out, Alex has good reason to be cautious.
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato – where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited.