May 2008 |
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Friday, May 2, 10:30 A.M. |
Morning Story Time & CraftAll children welcome! |
Monday, May 5, 3:30 P.M. |
Nature Club, for kindergartners—2nd gradersThis month we will be exploring the great outdoors. |
Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 P.M. |
Family Story TimeCome enjoy a book together! |
Wednesday, May 7, 10:30 A.M. |
Toddler TimeToddler time is for children 3 years old and younger. |
Wednesday, May 7, 1:00 P.M. |
Afternoon Story TimeAll children 7 years old and under are welcome! |
Friday, May 9, 10:30 A.M. |
Morning Story Time & CraftAll children welcome! |
Saturday, May 10, 9:00 A.M. |
Saturday Book ClubThe God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
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Saturday, May 10, 12:00-3:00 P.M. |
Teen Dog WashDo you have a dirty dog? The Teen Advisory Group of the Polk City Community Library are having a dog wash to raise money for library books. It's $2 for a small to medium dog wash and $4 to wash large dogs. Dogs must be current on all shots and on a leash. If you have any questions please contact Charity, at the library (515)984-6119. |
May 12-16, |
Celebrate National Children's Book Week!Join us for exciting children's programs this week. Be sure to enter the book drawing! |
Monday, May 12, 3:30 P.M. |
Nature Club, for 3rd-5th gradersThis month we will be exploring the great outdoors. |
Monday, May 12, 5:30-7:30 P.M. |
Family Game NightJoin us for games, food and much more. |
Tuesday, May 13, 6:30 P.M. |
Family Story TimeCome enjoy a book together! Joyce Hegna will be our special guest story teller this evening. |
Tuesday, May 13, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Wednesday, May 14, 10:30 A.M. |
Toddler TimeToddler time is for children 3 years old and younger. |
Wednesday, May 14, 1:00 P.M. |
Afternoon Story TimeAll children 7 years old and under are welcome! Hear our guest story teller, Alice Catalfo. |
Wednesday, May 14, 3:30 P.M. |
Munch-a-Bunch Book ClubA book club for 3rd-5th graders. We will be discussing The Giver by Lois Lowery. |
Friday, May 16, 10:30 A.M. |
Morning Story Time & CraftAll children welcome! Edna Marriott will be leading the kids on a bear hunt during this story time. |
Friday, May 16, 4:15 P.M. |
Teen Book ClubWe will be discussing The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi. |
Saturday, May 17, 10:00 A.M.-noon |
Crafty SaturdayChildren of all ages—come make a fun craft. |
Monday, May 19, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubThe Choice by Nicholas Sparks
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Tuesday, May 20, 6:30 P.M. |
Family Story TimeCome enjoy a book together! |
Wednesday, May 21, 10:30 A.M. |
Toddler TimeToddler time is for children 3 years old and younger. |
Wednesday, May 21, 1:00 P.M. |
Afternoon Story TimeAll children 7 years old and under are welcome! |
Thursday, May 22, 6:00-8:00 P.M. |
Make & Take Tote/Bag ClassBring your sewing machine and join Ramona in making this fun bag. Skill level: EASY. A supply list will be provided at pre-registration. There is a $12 class fee. |
Friday, May 23, 10:30 A.M. |
Morning Story Time & CraftJoin us for this special picnic story time. We will celebrate all the great story time books we have read. Pre-registration is necessary to attend this event. Please let us know if you will be joining us by Friday, May 16th. |
Monday, May 26, |
Library is closed.The library will be closed all day today in observance of Memorial Day. |
Thursday, May 29, 6:30 P.M. |
Embellish Your Flip FlopsGo from boring to FUZZY! No crochet experience needed, but it would be helpful. Mom's how about a night out with your daughter? (Must be 8+) Class size is limited. Pre-registration is required. |
June 2008 |
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Tuesday, June 10, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Saturday, June 14, 9:00 A.M. |
Saturday Book ClubInto The Wild by Jon Krakauer
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Monday, June 16, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubVirgin River by Robyn Carr
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Thursday, June 26, 6:30 P.M. |
The DTV Transition is underway—are you ready?Join Iowa Public Television for a free presentation about digital television. Get the answers to all your digital television questions, including information about the analog shutoff, coupon program and more. |
July 2008 |
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Tuesday, July 8, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Saturday, July 12, 9:00 A.M. |
Saturday Book ClubNight by Elie Wiesel
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Thursday, July 17, |
Annual Friends of the Library Book SaleMore details about the event soon! The Friends welcome your book donations—THANKS! |
Friday, July 18, |
Annual Friends of the Library Book SaleMore details about the event soon! The Friends welcome your book donations—THANKS! |
Saturday, July 19, |
Annual Friends of the Library Book SaleMore details about the event soon! The Friends welcome your book donations—THANKS! |
Monday, July 21, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubAnne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
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Tuesday, July 29, 7:00 P.M. |
Friends of the Library MeetingNew members are always welcome! |
Thursday, July 31, 7:00 P.M. |
Come hear local author Mary Kay Shanley!Our State Fair—Iowa's Blue Ribbon Story by Mary Kay Shanley
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. This event is made possible by Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires special assistance, please call (515)984-6119 in advance.
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August 2008 |
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Saturday, August 9, 9:00 A.M. |
Saturday Book ClubLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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Tuesday, August 12, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Monday, August 18, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubConsequences by Penelope Lively
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September 2008 |
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Tuesday, September 9, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Saturday, September 13, 9:00 A.M. |
Saturday Book ClubDigging to America by Anne Tyler
This month's book club selection was chosen as the 2008 All Iowa Reads book. The purpose of All Iowa Reads is to encourage Iowans statewide to read and talk about a single title in the same year. |
Monday, September 15, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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October 2008 |
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Tuesday, October 14, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Monday, October 20, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubA Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry
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November 2008 |
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Tuesday, November 11, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
Monday, November 17, 7:00 P.M. |
Monday Book ClubWe will be choosing next years reading list. Bring your book suggestions! |
December 2008 |
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Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 P.M. |
Library Board MeetingMeetings are open to the public. The library board agendas and minutes are available on the website. |
A place where all can meet, learn, and grow.
Twelve-year-old Alice Winston is growing up fast on her father's run-down horse ranch--coping with
the death of a classmate and the absence of her older sister (who ran off with a rodeo cowboy),
trying to understand her depressed and bedridden mother, and attempting to earn the love and admiration
of her reticent, weary father. Lyrical, powerful, and unforgettable.
Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new
tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll
never have to make. Spanning the eventful years of young
love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts
us with the most heart wrenching question of all: how far
would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the
wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in
savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and
invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.
When recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees an ad for a midwife-nurse practitioner, she quickly decides that the
remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache.
The personal account of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy.
This memoir reveals the writer to be a woman of great courage, who determinedly pursued a course of action
founded upon deep humanitarian convictions despite great personal danger. Gies was the trusted employee to
whom Otto Frank turned when his family was forced into hiding in their attempt to escape deportation and death.
Teenagers who have read Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl will surely want to read about Gies' adventures
in secretly obtaining provisions for eight people for two years.
Our State Fair is a Great State Fair, but then you already knew that! Our State Fair—Iowa's Blue Ribbon Story is
the book that chronicles 150 years of Iowans who have made up that unique August experience. Read their stories and
you'll discover a bit of yourself—from watching two locomotives collide in front of a packed Grandstand to riding
the Roller Coaster or sneaking a smooch with your sweetheart while gliding through Ye Old Mill, from parading your
Charolais around the ring to watching judges test your piecrust, from camping in Tent City to eating your noon meal
beside your car. Join author Mary Kay Shanley in a discussion of some of the book's very best tales,
then share some of your own. Everybody, after all, has a great State Fair story to tell.
Little Heathens is an enchanting but thoroughly unsentimental look at Iowa farm life during the
Great Depression. In clear clean prose we are offered the grit, struggle, and also the joy of hard work
on the farm.
Consequences is a a multigenerational love story, beginning in a London park in 1935, and ends nearly 70 years
later after covering several lifetimes of love and heartbreak.
Anne Tyler's newest novel (her 17th) takes place in Baltimore. Like her previous novels, it's the story of a family
—or in this case two families, and how they interact with each other inside the family unit and with those
outside the immediate family. The book begins with the chance meeting of the Yazdan and Donaldson families
at the airport while both are picking up their adopted Korean daughters.
Sami and Ziba Yazdan are first-generation Iranian-Americans meeting their new daughter Sooki.
Brad and Bitsy Donaldson and their large extended family are meeting their daughter Jin-Ho. The Donaldsons
invite the Yazdans for an "arrival party" which becomes an annual event shared by the families.
A rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family.
A fabulous Victorian cozy that stars a delightful mathematician as a sleuth trying to learn what happened eleven
years ago. This holiday thriller has a lovely message celebrating the spirit of Christmas.