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2629 Beaver Avenue, Suite 1, Des Moines(319) 247-26651105 Third St. SE , Cedar Rapids
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Marjorie Mathison Hance Author Event
<p>Twin Cities area author Marjorie Mathison Hance will read from and discuss her book, Murder at Pelican Lake, at 7pm Monday, October 14 at Next Page Books. Hance is an alumna of St. Catherine University in St. Paul and earned her master’s degree in higher education from Indiana University. Prior to beginning her writing career, she worked for the University of Minnesota, Honeywell, and St. Catherine where she taught and served as Vice President for External Relations.</p><p>The central character in Murder at Pelican Lake is Carley who loses her high-profile job and her partner in the span of a few short months. She returns to the place that feels most like home – her childhood cabin on Pelican Lake, Minnesota. But when a teenager is abducted, it becomes clear that her once-sleepy vacation community has its share of secrets. As her cabin becomes the epicenter of an investigation, Carley must question the neighbors she knows and trusts. Will she uncover the shocking truth before things turn deadly?</p> 2019-09-05 20:00:00 -0500
10/14/197:00 p.m.Next Page BooksCedar Rapids -
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Next Page Book & Social Club
<p>6 to 7:30pm at Next Page Books, 1105 Third Street SE in Cedar Rapids. Discuss "Foe" by Iain Reid.</p> 2019-09-23 19:30:00 -0500
10/16/196:00 p.m.Next Page BooksCedar Rapids -
Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-18 11:00:00 -0500
10/18/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-18 14:00:00 -0500
10/18/191:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club<br><br>Read whatever you want, and join us to chat about what you read and tell us if we should check it out the next time we are looking for a book to read. Light refreshments may be served.</p> 2019-08-04 19:00:00 -0500
10/17/196:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
CR Comic Book Club
<p>Comic book talk with other fans spotlighting a particular character, creator, or genre.</p><p>Are you a comic book enthusiast? Want to share your love for this artful style of literature? Join the CR Comic Book Club at 6:30 pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Downtown Library for comic book talk with other fans. Each month spotlights a particular character, creator, or genre, and we let the conversation go wherever it takes us. All ages and interest levels are welcome and invited to attend.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2019-10-17 19:30:00 -0500
10/17/196:30 p.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
B&N Kids' Book Hangout
<p>Books can take you on amazing adventures through magical lands, the great outdoors, and even school! Join us for our fall Kids' Book Hangout to discover your next great, adventurous read. Connect with fellow readers, play games and activities, and take home giveaways! Bring a friend and we'll see you there. Plus, get a coupon for a $1 Rice Krispy Bar.</p> 2019-10-02 15:00:00 -0500
10/19/192:00 p.m.Barnes and NobleCedar Rapids -
Discover Great New Writers Book Group
<div data-block="true" data-editor="bvj45" data-offset-key="e6vdr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e6vdr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e6vdr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Every month we discuss a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers title. This month's selection is The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott; a thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice–inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="bvj45" data-offset-key="ane7n-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ane7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ane7n-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="bvj45" data-offset-key="37nbh-0-0"><div data-offset-key="37nbh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="37nbh-0-0"><span data-text="true">All are invited to join these discussions.</span></span></div></div> 2019-09-10 20:00:00 -0500
10/17/197:00 p.m.Barnes and NobleCedar Rapids -
Cancun Airport Transportation
<p><iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3723.7616830291536!2d-86.87380508475295!3d21.04221959269384!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8f4e8049fc6dd149%3A0x4f003d5b2c274f4c!2sCancun+Airport+Shuttle+Transportation!5e0!3m2!1sen!2smx!4v1557241221010!5m2!1sen!2smx" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Cancun Airport Shuttle Transportation</p><p>Km. 22 Aeropuerto Internacional de, 77569 Cancún, Q.R.</p><p>+52 998 898 4979</p> 2019-05-07 21:30:00 -0500
1/22/201:00 p.m.Cancun Airport Shuttle TransportationCancún -
Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-25 11:00:00 -0500
10/25/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Next Page Book & Social Club
<p>6 to 7:30pm at Next Page Books, 1105 Third Street SE in Cedar Rapids. Discuss "Conversations with Friends" by Sally Rooney.</p> 2019-09-23 19:30:00 -050011/20/196:00 p.m.Next Page BooksCedar Rapids -
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Andre Perry Author Event
<p>Next Page Books will host Iowa City writer Andre Perry for the launch of his new collection of essays, Some of Us are Very Hungry Now, at 7pm Tuesday, November 12 in CSPS Hall. Perry’s essays take the form of personal reflection, multiple choice questions, screenplays, and imagined talk-show conversations, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice.</p><p><br></p><p>In addition to his writing, Perry is the executive director of the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, co-founder and director of the annual Mission Creek Festival, and started the Englert‐incubated project, Witching Hour.</p><p><br></p><p>The event will be moderated by Akwi Nji, writer, spoken word artist, and founder of The Hook, a local non-profit organization that produces live literature events of spoken word, stories, and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow at the bookstore.</p> 2019-10-06 20:00:00 -050011/12/197:00 p.m.Next Page BooksCedar Rapids -
Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-25 14:00:00 -0500
10/25/191:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Club: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
<div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="5onk8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5onk8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5onk8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Join us on Thursday, October 24 at 6 pm to discuss The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson our October "Our Pick" Book Club selection.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="brml0-0-0"><div data-offset-key="brml0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="brml0-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="7vrc1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7vrc1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7vrc1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Copies of the book are available for purchase at M and M Bookstore. Stop by or call today to secure your copy.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="b5qvu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b5qvu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b5qvu-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="6fj8t-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6fj8t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6fj8t-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="54iiv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="54iiv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="54iiv-0-0"><span data-text="true">This New York Times bestseller intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="79v51-0-0"><div data-offset-key="79v51-0-0"><span data-offset-key="79v51-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="d1o65-0-0"><div data-offset-key="d1o65-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d1o65-0-0"><span data-text="true">Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="1o201-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1o201-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1o201-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="bie8c-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bie8c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bie8c-0-0"><span data-text="true">Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="8aivc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8aivc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8aivc-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9pmof" data-offset-key="4edji-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4edji-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4edji-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.</span></span></div></div> 2019-08-04 19:00:00 -0500
10/24/196:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Jungle Book
<p>From the creators of <em>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</em> comes the new theatrical adaptation of the works of Rudyard Kipling reimaged through modern eyes. Immersive sound and multimedia will transport you from the urban jungle to relive Mowgli’s childhood in the jungles of India. With Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and more, <em>Jungle Book</em> brings beloved characters to life in a way you’ve never seen before. Eye-popping video, shadow-play, and original music make this family production of <em>Jungle Book</em> “like stepping inside a beautifully illustrated children’s storybook. It’s a magical experience!”- Sarasota Observer</p>
11/17/192:00 p.m.University of Dubuque Heritage CenterDubuque -
One Community One Book 2019 discussion: The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
<p>Bring your lunch and join ICPL staff to discuss the 2019 One Community One Book selection "The far away brothers: two young migrants and the making of an American life" by Lauren Markham.</p><p>The Faraway Brothers, tells the story of identical twin brothers who are forced to leave their home in El Salvador under the brutal conditions of war and violence. They make their way to Oakland, California where they have to adjust to their new lives.Markham’s storytelling captures rich and nuanced insight into the migrant experience. Of the book, The New York Times’ Jennifer Senior writes, “The Far Away Brothers is impeccably timed, intimately reported and beautifully expressed. Markham brings people and places to rumbling life; she has that rare ability to recreate elusive, subjective experiences...without taking undue liberties.”</p><p>This event is sponsored by the Iowa City Public Library and the UI Center for Human Rights</p> 2019-10-03 13:00:00 -0500
10/16/1912:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Club: Beloved
<p><em>Beloved</em> is the story–set in post-Civil War Ohio–of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of “iron eyes and backbone to match.” Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.</p><p>Sethe works at “beating back the past,” but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness that has settled into Baby Suggs’ “desolated center where the self that was no self made its home.” And to Sethe, the past makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in memories that both haunt and soothe her…in the arrival of Paul D (“There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep”), one of her fellow slaves on the farm where she had once been kept…in the vivid and painfully cathartic stories she and Paul D tell each other of their years in captivity, of their glimpses of freedom…and, most powerfully, in the apparition of Beloved, whose eyes are expressionless at their deepest point, whose doomed childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who, as daughter, sister and seductress, has now come from the “place over there” to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her.</p><p>Sethe’s struggle to keep Beloved from gaining full possession of her present–and to throw off the long, dark legacy of her past–is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel. But its intensity and resonance of feeling, and the boldness of its narrative, lift it beyond its particulars so that it speaks to our experience as an entire nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance.</p><p><a href="https://blackiowa.org/wrbgbookclub/">Learn more</a> about our book club and other upcoming meetings. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/well-read-black-girl-book-club-beloved-tickets-73501730655">Register</a> to receive 20% off selected titles at Next Page Books.</p> 2019-10-03 19:00:00 -0500
10/29/196:00 p.m.African American Museum of IowaCedar Rapids -
Storytime featuring A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mr. Rogers
<p>Mr. Rogers instilled in his young viewers the values of kindness, self-awareness, and self-esteem. But most of all, he taught children that they are loved, just as they are. Join us for this special Storytime and get a coupon from our Café for a grilled cheese sandwich with milk or juice for $4.</p> 2019-10-02 11:30:00 -0500
10/19/1911:00 a.m.Barnes and NobleCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club / Stories of Art and Artists edited by Diane Secker Tesdell
<p><em>Stories of Art and Artists </em>gathers two centuries of classic stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful” and Albert Camus’s “The Artist at Work” to Bernard Malamud’s “Rembrandt’s Hat” and Aimee Bender’s “The Color Master,” the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create. </p> 2019-08-26 17:00:00 -0500
10/17/194:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
CR Comic Book Club
<p>Comic book talk with other fans spotlighting a particular character, creator, or genre.</p><p>Are you a comic book enthusiast? Want to share your love for this artful style of literature? Join the CR Comic Book Club at 6:30 pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Downtown Library for comic book talk with other fans. Each month spotlights a particular character, creator, or genre, and we let the conversation go wherever it takes us. All ages and interest levels are welcome and invited to attend.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2019-11-21 19:30:00 -0600
11/21/196:30 p.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
CR Comic Book Club
<p>Comic book talk with other fans spotlighting a particular character, creator, or genre.</p><p>Are you a comic book enthusiast? Want to share your love for this artful style of literature? Join the CR Comic Book Club at 6:30 pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Downtown Library for comic book talk with other fans. Each month spotlights a particular character, creator, or genre, and we let the conversation go wherever it takes us. All ages and interest levels are welcome and invited to attend.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2019-12-19 19:30:00 -0600
12/19/196:30 p.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 21:00:00 -0500
5/29/207:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 21:00:00 -0500
5/30/207:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 16:00:00 -0500
5/31/202:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
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The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 21:00:00 -0500
6/04/207:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 21:00:00 -0500
6/05/207:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 21:00:00 -0500
6/06/207:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The Book Club Play
<p dir="ltr">A popular new show for theaters across the country. With intimate discussions about life and literature, it is a delightful romp about live, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p> 2019-08-18 16:00:00 -0500
6/07/202:00 p.m.Hope Martin TheatreWaterloo -
The History Center - Book Reading
<p>The book is entitled <em>Kaleidoscope</em>, and consists of over 80 short remembrances from everyday life. The stories are the type of stories that were shared at family reunions in earlier decades.</p><p>The reading will include portions of <strong>Robert Chadima’s </strong><em>“Melting Assets”</em> about the ice industry, <strong>Anita Burke’s </strong><em>“River Bottom Farm” </em>in which she shares childhood memories about her family farm which the U.S. Corps of Engineers took by eminent domain to create the Coralville Reservoir, <strong>Carol Wohlleben’s </strong><em>“The Class Act,” </em>about the formation of the Culinary Arts Program at Kirkwood, and <strong>Racheal Davis’ </strong><em>“The Midnight Ride”</em> about her ancestor William Dawes who in 1775 reached Concord, Massachusetts to warn the patriots that<em> “The British Are Coming”. </em> Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s poem credits Paul Revere. However, that is not historically true. Revere never made it to Concord. He was captured shortly after leaving Lexington.</p><p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>
11/02/1910:30 a.m.The History CenterCedar Rapids -
The River Rat Murders Book Signing
<p>Frank L. Gertcher, author of The Dark Cabin Murders, will be signing copies of his books, including new release The River Rat Murders, starting at 9am. </p> 2019-08-14 12:00:00 -0500
11/09/199:00 a.m.Barnes and NobleCedar Rapids