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2629 Beaver Avenue, Suite 1, Des Moines(319) 247-26651105 Third St. SE , Cedar Rapids
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Hug a Book
<p>Drop by our maker room between 4:30 and 6pm for all the materials and equipment you’ll need to make a bookmark that hugs your book. It’s perfect for holding your page - no matter what! If you can’t stay for the fun, take home the supplies and directions to make at your leisure. While supplies last. </p>4/14/204:00 p.m.North Liberty Community LibraryNorth Liberty -
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What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="5va3" data-offset-key="616fq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="616fq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="616fq-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5va3" data-offset-key="c8f19-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c8f19-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c8f19-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5va3" data-offset-key="3vc45-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3vc45-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3vc45-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
4/16/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club
<p>Camille Laurens, <em>Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas’s Masterpiece</em></p><p>Join our long-running book club as it focuses on Impressionism-related titles during the run of <em>Across the Atlantic</em>. All are welcome. Free.</p><p><br></p> 2019-12-30 17:00:00 -0600
4/16/204:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
(Postponed) "Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma" Book Signing
<p>In compliance with Governor Reynolds' proclamation, Mount Mercy University is cancelling the final spring lecture series event "Business and the Good Life," and postponing the book signing event with Dr. Eden Freedman Wales and the visiting writer event with Carol Tyx to the fall 2020 semester.</p> 2020-02-09 17:00:00 -0600
4/14/203:30 p.m.Mount Mercy University, Flaherty Community Room (204 Basile Hall)Cedar Rapids -
Homer's Iliad: a study group
<p>Join us as we witness sorrow, rage, love, and heroism among Trojans and Greeks as the war between them enters its tenth year. Led by Dr. Janet Freeman, we will examine three books each meeting, starting on Tuesday February 18 at 4:30 in the Iowa City Public Library board room and ending on April 14th. If possible please use the Robert Fagles translation. Please have books 1-3 read for this meeting. </p> 2020-04-07 18:00:00 -0500
4/07/204:31 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Club: Murder at the Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><div data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><div data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><span data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><span data-text="true">Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They’ve come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It’s a happy gathering. What could be more harmless?</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then scratch the surface and look closer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><div data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><span data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><span data-text="true">One is lonely. One is desperate and one of them is a killer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><span data-text="true">When the body of a woman is discovered on a Cambridge common, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer are called in to investigate. But the motive behind the crime isn’t clear… And it all leads back to a book club.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><span data-text="true">As the lies, volatile friendships and tension among the group rise to the surface, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer must work out the motive and track down a cold-blooded killer. But just when they think they are on the right track, a twist in the case throws them off course…</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><span data-text="true">etsy Freeman Reavley is the author of Beneath the Watery Moon and A Worm in the Bottle. Carrion, her latest psychological thriller will be released in November 2014.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><div data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><div data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><span data-text="true">She was born in Hammersmith, London.As a child she moved around frequently with her family, spending time in London, Provence, Tuscany, Gloucestershire and Cambridgeshire.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><span data-text="true">She showed a flair for literature and writing from a young age and had a particular interest in poetry, of which she was a prolific consumer and producer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><div data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><span data-text="true">In her early twenties she moved to Oxford, where she would eventually meet her husband. During her time in Oxford her interests turned from poetry to novels and she began to develop her own unique style of psychological thriller.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><div data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><span data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="5vkqi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5vkqi-0-0"><br></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="fik08-0-0"><br></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Reavley says "I think people are at their most fascinating when they are faced with life's real horrors." This is what I love to write about.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Betsy Reavley currently lives in North London, with her husband 2 children, dog, cat and chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @BetsyReavley</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
8/06/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="3clu8" data-offset-key="2b84i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2b84i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2b84i-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="3clu8" data-offset-key="97pae-0-0"><div data-offset-key="97pae-0-0"><span data-offset-key="97pae-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="3clu8" data-offset-key="gu0b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="gu0b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="gu0b-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 07:00:00 -0600
5/21/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: The Dry
<div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><span data-text="true">A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><span data-text="true">But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><div data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane Harper is the international bestselling author of The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><span data-text="true">Her books are published in more than 36 territories worldwide, with The Dry in production as a major motion picture starring Eric Bana.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
6/25/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="7nri3" data-offset-key="ccm69-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ccm69-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ccm69-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7nri3" data-offset-key="5uhpk-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5uhpk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5uhpk-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7nri3" data-offset-key="fmveq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fmveq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fmveq-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
10/15/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="b0e9l" data-offset-key="c7otk-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c7otk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c7otk-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="b0e9l" data-offset-key="aiuiv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aiuiv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aiuiv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="b0e9l" data-offset-key="bai7j-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bai7j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bai7j-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
9/17/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
11/19/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="tkq1" data-offset-key="84oi3-0-0"><div data-offset-key="84oi3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="84oi3-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="tkq1" data-offset-key="8p93g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8p93g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8p93g-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="tkq1" data-offset-key="8it11-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8it11-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8it11-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
12/17/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Author Event: David Philip Mullins
<div data-block="true" data-editor="1fqsc" data-offset-key="3cb4s-0-0"><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><div data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Inspired by the disaster of May 4, 1988, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives of four characters haunted by an industrial disaster. On an ordinary sunny morning in 2012, a series of explosions level a chemical plant on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The shock waves are felt as far away as Fremont Street. Homes and businesses suffer broken windows and caved-in roofs. Hundreds are injured, and eight employees of the plant are unaccounted for, presumed dead.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><div data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><span data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><span data-text="true">One of the missing is maintenance technician Andrew Huntley, a husband and father who is an orbital force in the novel as those who loved him grapple with his loss. Andrew’s best friend, Russell Martin—an anxiety-plagued bartender who calms his nerves with a steady inflow of weed—misses him more than he might a brother. Meanwhile Emma, Russell’s wife—a blackjack dealer at a downtown casino—tries to keep her years-long affair with Andrew hidden. Simon Addison, a manager at the plant who could have saved Andrew’s life, is afflicted by daily remorse, combined with a debilitating knowledge of his own cowardice. And then there’s Maddie, Andrew’s only child, a model high-school student whose response to the tragedy is to experiment with shoplifting and other deviant behavior.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><span data-text="true">David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below and an associate professor of English at Creighton University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and his fiction has appeared in many publications, including The Yale Review, Ecotone, Cimarron Review, Fiction, and Folio.</span></span></div></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="1fqsc" data-offset-key="c78j-0-0"><br></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
6/18/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="fttcl" data-offset-key="6hdm7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6hdm7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6hdm7-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fttcl" data-offset-key="61fhf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="61fhf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="61fhf-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fttcl" data-offset-key="er304-0-0"><div data-offset-key="er304-0-0"><span data-offset-key="er304-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
8/20/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
<p>About the Book<br> When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves.<br> <br> But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?<br><br>As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia’s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left.<br><br>About the Author<br> Matthew Sullivan grew up in a family of eight children in suburban Denver, Colorado. He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho, and has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other awards, and has won the Florida Review Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he has taught writing and literature at colleges in Boston, Idaho, and Poland, and currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. He is married to a librarian, Libby, and has two children and a scruffy dog named Ernie. They recently relocated to Anacortes, WA.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
5/07/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<div data-block="true" data-editor="3oj2k" data-offset-key="9heb9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9heb9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9heb9-0-0"><span data-text="true">aka The No Assigned Reading Book Club</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="3oj2k" data-offset-key="48uo-0-0"><div data-offset-key="48uo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48uo-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="3oj2k" data-offset-key="e0mji-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e0mji-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0mji-0-0"><span data-text="true">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.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
7/16/206:59 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: Liar, Liar
<div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><span data-text="true">The truth is elusive in Liar Liar.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Tough and likeable" (Foreword Reviews) Nicole Graves finds herself in the crosshairs when she reluctantly agrees to babysit a witness in a high-profile rape trial. Mary Ellen Barnes is suing her university's star quarterback for rape when the authorities won't act. In the court of public opinion, Mary Ellen appears to be the quintessential, pious, good girl. But her lies and mysterious comings and goings lead Nicole to suspect that she’s not what she seems.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><span data-text="true">It isn't just Mary Ellen who's acting suspiciously. No one wants to own up to the truth in Liar Liar, not even Nicole, whose fiance; begs her not to look into the case. But when the witness goes missing during the trial, Nicole is caught up in a tangle of lies that turns deadly. After the investigator assigned to the case fails to do his job, Nicole is determined to find the killer on her own, no matter the risks.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy was born in Oakland, California, and grew up with her parents and two sisters in the flatlands of East Oakland. When she was around eight—in a world that was a lot safer that today—she was allowed to roam the neighborhood by herself, and her visits to the tiny Alandale Public Library were the highlight of her week.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><div data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><span data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><span data-text="true">She attended public schools in Oakland. Her father opposed the idea of sending girls to college, being of the opinion that they would be better off working as waitresses to prepare them for their life’s work as housewives. Nancy ignored his advice and went on to UC Berkeley, where she supported herself by working in the campus library. In addition to the pleasure of working around books, the job had an added benefit of allowing student clerks to disappear into the stacks and read when work was slow. Nancy majored in English literature and graduated from Berkeley with honors.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Her first job was as an associate editor for a small, long-vanished publishing house in San Francisco. When her two daughters were born, she stayed home and began writing freelance articles for a local paper, as well as teaming up with her husband, Bill Boyarsky, on magazine articles. They lived in Sacramento for ten years, while her husband covered the state capital and political campaigns for the Associated Press.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><span data-text="true">The family moved to Los Angeles when Bill joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times. When her girls were in their teens, Nancy gave up freelancing and returned to full-time work, first as associate editor of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine and later as communications director for political affairs for ARCO. She quit ARCO when the first of her two granddaughters was born. Since then, she has devoted herself to writing and editing. Her primary hobby is painting portraits and images from old family photos dating from the early 1900s. She loves reading fiction, the theater, films, and travel, especially to the UK where the theater and books are a national passion.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><div data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><div data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><span data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy Boyarsky coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband. She has written several textbooks on the justice system and contributed to political anthologies, including In the Running, about women’s political campaigns and The Challenge of California by the late Eugene Lee. She has also written articles on a variety of subjects for the Los Angeles Times, West magazine, Forbes, McCalls, Playgirl, Westways and other publications.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><span data-text="true">She is currently working on another mystery featuring Nicole, as well as Family Recipes for Gastroenteritis, a tragicomic memoir of growing up in Oakland in a family at the far end of disfunctionality.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><div data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><span data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><div data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><span data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><span data-text="true">She lives in Los Angeles with her journalist husband, Bill Boyarsky.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
9/03/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: Stolen Remains
<div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><span data-text="true">After establishing her reputation as one of London's most highly regarded undertakers, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to the wilds of the American West. But when her mother falls ill, Violet and her husband Samuel are summoned back to England, where her skills are as sought-after as ever. She's honored to undertake the funeral of Anthony Fairmont, the Viscount Raybourn, a close friend of Queen Victoria's who died in suspicious circumstances--but it's difficult to perform her services when his body disappears. . .</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><span data-text="true">As the viscount's undertaker, all eyes are on Violet as the Fairmonts and Scotland Yard begin the search for his earthly remains. Forced to exhume her latent talents as a sleuth to preserve her good name, Violet's own investigation takes her from servants' quarters, to the halls of Windsor Castle, to the tombs of ancient Egypt--and the Fairmont family's secrets quickly begin to unravel like a mummy's wrappings. But the closer Violet gets to the truth, the closer she gets to becoming the next missing body. . .</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wrought with both heartfelt bravery and breathtaking suspense, Stolen Remains is a captivating tale of death and deception set against the indelible backdrop of Victorian London.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><div data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><span data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Christine Trent is the author of the Florence Nightingale Mysteries, the Lady of Ashes historical mystery series, about a Victorian-era undertaker, and three other historical novels. Christine’s novels have been translated into Turkish, Polish, and Czech. She writes from her two-story home library, where she lives with her husband, four precocious cats, a large doll collection, entirely too many fountain pens, and over 4,000 catalogued books.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
7/02/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: My Sister, the Serial Killer
<p>About the Book<br> My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...<br> <br> When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...<br><br>About the Author<br> OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo, a Nigerian publishing house, and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.</p>
6/04/2012:00 a.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: These Is My Words
<div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><span data-text="true">A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Rich in authentic everyday details and alive with truly unforgettable characters, These Is My Words brilliantly brings a vanished world to breathtaking life again.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><div data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy E. Turner</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><span data-text="true">Genre: History, Historical Fiction</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
4/23/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: The Library of the Unwritten
<div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the library. When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><span data-text="true">But what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong when the terrifyingly angelic Ramiel attacks them, convinced that they hold the Devil's Bible. The text of the Devil's Bible is a powerful weapon in the power struggle between Heaven and Hell, so it falls to the librarians to find a book with the power to reshape the boundaries between Heaven, Hell ... and Earth. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A. J. Hackwith is (almost) certainly not an ink witch in a hoodie. She's a queer writer of fantasy and science fiction living in Seattle, and writes sci-fi romance as Ada Harper. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and her work appears in Uncanny Magazine and assorted anthologies. Summon A.J. at your own peril with an arcane circle of fountain pens and classic RPGs, or you can find her on Twitter and other dark corners of the Internet.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
5/28/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Unwrapped: Gifts from the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, 1988-2018
<p>Retired computer entrepreneur Peter Norton (Norton Antivirus Software) is a contemporary art collector as well as an active participant in various civic and philanthropic activities. In 1988, the Norton Family Christmas Project began commissioning artists to create original, multiple-edition works that were mailed as holiday greetings to friends, colleagues, and selected institutions. In 2017, the CRMA received the bulk of these wonderful holiday greetings from Director Emeritus Terry Pitts and his wife Kathy Hall.</p><p><br></p><p>The objects and artists’ books that comprise the Project collection are incredibly varied. A sense of whimsy runs through many of the pieces: salt and pepper shakers become snow globes, a music box exhorts us to be silent. Many works also have a sociopolitical focus, addressing issues as varied as slavery, AIDS, and gender identity. Taken together, the Norton Family Christmas Project objects and artists’ books provide a wonderful snapshot of the last thirty years of activity in the art world at large, presenting the work of both emerging and more established artists. The 2018 edition of the Norton Family Christmas Project was the last and ended the series.</p> 2020-04-07 16:00:00 -0500
4/07/2012:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Unwrapped: Gifts from the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, 1988-2018
<p>Retired computer entrepreneur Peter Norton (Norton Antivirus Software) is a contemporary art collector as well as an active participant in various civic and philanthropic activities. In 1988, the Norton Family Christmas Project began commissioning artists to create original, multiple-edition works that were mailed as holiday greetings to friends, colleagues, and selected institutions. In 2017, the CRMA received the bulk of these wonderful holiday greetings from Director Emeritus Terry Pitts and his wife Kathy Hall.</p><p><br></p><p>The objects and artists’ books that comprise the Project collection are incredibly varied. A sense of whimsy runs through many of the pieces: salt and pepper shakers become snow globes, a music box exhorts us to be silent. Many works also have a sociopolitical focus, addressing issues as varied as slavery, AIDS, and gender identity. Taken together, the Norton Family Christmas Project objects and artists’ books provide a wonderful snapshot of the last thirty years of activity in the art world at large, presenting the work of both emerging and more established artists. The 2018 edition of the Norton Family Christmas Project was the last and ended the series.</p> 2020-04-08 16:00:00 -0500
4/08/2012:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Homer's Iliad: a study group
<p>Join us as we witness sorrow, rage, love, and heroism among Trojans and Greeks as the war between them enters its tenth year. Led by Dr. Janet Freeman, we will examine three books each meeting, starting on Tuesday February 18 at 4:30 in the Iowa City Public Library board room and ending on April 14th. If possible please use the Robert Fagles translation. Please have books 1-3 read for this meeting. </p> 2020-04-14 18:00:00 -0500
4/14/204:31 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
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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
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 -
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