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Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-03-31 10:30:00 -0500
3/31/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Last Tuesday of the Month Book Club
<p>Join us at the library for a discussion of South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby. </p>3/31/206:30 p.m.North Liberty Community LibraryNorth Liberty -
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Literary Vines: A WINE & BEER TASTING
<h1 align="left"><strong>LITERARY VINES</strong></h5><h2 align="left"><strong>A WINE & BEER TASTING </strong></h5><div align="left"><p><strong>Saturday, May 2, 2019</strong><br><strong>6:00pm to 8:00pm</strong></p><p><strong>Cedar Rapids Public Library</strong><br><strong>LivingLearning Roof</strong><br><strong>450 5<sup>th</sup> Avenue SE</strong></p></div><p>Join us for a literature-inspired tasting event to enjoy beer and wine pairings as well as live music and entertainment!</p><p>All funds raised benefit the Library Foundation and Foundation-funded programs, including Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.</p><p>This event is for individuals 21 and over. Tickets are $50.00 per person.</p><p><a href="https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/CedarRapidsPublicLibraryFound/LiteraryVines2020.html" target="_blank" title="">Make Your Reservation</a></p> 2020-03-10 20:00:00 -0500
5/02/206:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-04-07 10:30:00 -0500
4/07/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar 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> 2020-03-31 18:00:00 -0500
3/31/204:31 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Club: The Murder of Mary Russell
<div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mary Russell is used to dark secrets—her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><span data-text="true">And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple’s longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell’s faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson’s son.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><span data-text="true">What Samuel Hudson tells Russell cannot possibly be true, yet she believes him—as surely as she believes the threat of the gun in his hand. In a devastating instant, everything changes. And when the scene is discovered—a pool of blood on the floor, the smell of gunpowder in the air—the most shocking revelation of all is that the grim clues point directly to Clara Hudson.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Or rather to Clarissa, the woman she was before Baker Street.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><span data-text="true">The key to Russell’s sacrifice lies in Mrs. Hudson’s past. To uncover the truth, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets—to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><div data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><span data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><span data-text="true">And nothing will ever be the same.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><div data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Edgar-winning mystery writer Laurie R. King writes series and standalone novels. Her official forum is</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE LRK VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB here on Goodreads--please join us for book-discussing fun.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><span data-text="true">King's 2018 novel, Island of the Mad, sees Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes travel from London's Bedlam to the glitter of Venice's Lido,where Young Things and the friends of Cole Porter pass Mussolini's Blackshirts in the streets. The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series follows a brilliant young woman who becomes the student, then partner, of the great detective. The Stuyvesant and Grey series (Touchstone; The Bones of Paris) takes place in Europe between the Wars. The Kate Martinelli series follows an SFPD detective's cases on a female Rembrandt, a holy fool, and more. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><span data-text="true">King lives in northern California, which serves as backdrop for some of her books.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
4/02/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar 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 -
School's Out - Poetree
<p>Help us fill a tree with poems! We're creating a Poetree in honor of National Poetry Month.</p><p>Stop in the Commons of the downtown library to write a poem for our Poetree. This program is part of our School's Out series, for children grades K-5.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-03-03 23:00:00 -0600
4/10/2010:00 a.m.Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-04-14 10:30:00 -0500
4/14/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-04-21 10:30:00 -0500
4/21/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-04-28 10:30:00 -0500
4/28/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-05-05 10:30:00 -0500
5/05/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
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Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-05-12 10:30:00 -0500
5/12/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-05-19 10:30:00 -0500
5/19/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Preschool Story Time
<p>Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.</p><p>Grow your child's love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-05-26 10:30:00 -0500
5/26/2010:00 a.m.Downtown Cedar Rapids Public LibraryCedar Rapids -
Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
<p>Reference Librarian and History Educator Sarah Uthoff, of Trundlebed Tales Blog, will talk about her research on Laura Ingalls Wilder in this three-part series specially-crafted for North Liberty. Participants will learn how Laura lived, food history, and travel sites, featuring stories and photos. Coffee and snacks provided. </p>4/21/201:00 p.m.North Liberty Community LibraryNorth Liberty -
(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> 2020-04-14 18:00:00 -0500
4/14/204:31 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Underwear: A Brief Story Time
<p>So many great underwear picture books, so little time! Let's giggle our way through a few and make a silly underwear craft while assisting Families Helping Families with donations of unopened packaged underwear for all shapes and sizes.</p><p>Kids and their caregivers are welcome to attend this free event.</p><p><br></p> 2020-02-23 11:15:00 -0600
4/18/2010:30 a.m.Hiawatha Public LibraryHiawatha -
Favorite Author Showcase
<p>We are postponing our March Favorite Author Showcase with local author Patti Seda to August 24, 2020</p> 2020-02-26 17:30:00 -0600
8/24/204:30 p.m.CRST International Graduate CenterCedar Rapids -
Family Fun - Book Themed Escape Rooms
<p>Families, grandparents, kids, and caregivers come to the library to enjoy a free activity and share some quality time with your loved ones. All children should be accompanied by an adult.</p><p>Families can try to solve one of four escape rooms based on the books by Mo Willems, Lemony Snicket, Shannon Hale, and J.K. Rowling. These puzzles are designed so children who enjoy the books above can solve the puzzles with some help from a caregiver. Families will need to sign-up as teams and select the room(s) that are age appropriate for the majority of the members in your group.</p><p>Mo Willems' Pigeon Books - K-1st grade</p><p>Shannon Hale's Princess in Black Series - 1st-3rd grade</p><p>Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events - 3rd-6th grade</p><p>J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series - 6th grade +</p><p>Please register by calling the library or online at <a href="http://www.crlibrary.org">www.crlibrary.org</a> on the events page.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-03-04 14:00:00 -0600
5/02/2010:00 a.m.Ladd LibraryCedar Rapids -
BYOBook
<p>BYOB is a book discussion group that brings some of our favorite local restaurants & books together. Food & beverage expenses are your own. For April, we will meet at Zio Johno’s (780 Community Drive) to discuss The House Girl by Tara Conklin. </p>4/16/206:00 p.m.Zio Johno'sNorth Liberty -
Last Tuesday of the Month Book Club
<p><em>(Adult)</em></p><p>Join us at the library for a discussion of Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell. </p>4/28/206:30 p.m.North Liberty Community LibraryNorth Liberty -
The Beautiful Snow author Cindy Wilson
<p>Cindy Wilson, author of the <em>The Beautiful Snow</em>, a book about the Hard Winter of 1880-81. Lively and rewarding, <em>The Beautiful Snow</em> is a new look at this time period from the Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, <em>The Long Winter</em>. </p> 2020-03-11 15:30:00 -0500
5/23/202:00 p.m.Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum and LibraryWest Branch -
Silent Reading Book Club
<p>Introverts unite! We are hosting a Silent Book Club on the fifth Thursday of the month.<br><br>Join us a little before 6 pm with your favorite book and find a comfy spot to read in the store. We'll keep things quiet and chill while you get one hour of reading time.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
4/30/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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Silent Reading Book Club
<p>Introverts unite! We are hosting a Silent Book Club on the fifth Thursday of the month.<br> <br>Join us a little before 6 pm with your favorite book and find a comfy spot to read in the store. We'll keep things quiet and chill while you get one hour of reading time.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
7/30/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Silent Reading Book Club
<p>Introverts unite! We are hosting a Silent Book Club on the fifth Thursday of the month.<br> <br>Join us a little before 6 pm with your favorite book and find a comfy spot to read in the store. We'll keep things quiet and chill while you get one hour of reading time.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
10/29/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Author Event: Brad Balukjian
<div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><span data-text="true">About The Wax Pack</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected—a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><div data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects—taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><div data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><span data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><span data-text="true">About Brad Balukjian</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Brad Balukjian is director of the Natural History and Sustainability Program and teaches biology at Merritt College in Oakland, California. He is also a freelance writer and has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, NOVA Next, and Islands.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 18:00:00 -0600
5/14/205:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Author Event: Dennis Maulsby
<p>About the Book<br>Nous servons, que nous soyons servis.<br><br> Twenty-eight-year-old Army Major Hugh de Gracie returns to his half a millennium old family home in the Adirondacks for the first time in a decade. He is close to death, due to the cumulative effect of wounds and an untreatable virus acquired as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan. Kept ignorant by father and family during his childhood and rebellious teenage years, he does not realize the true nature of the family residence. The de Gracies both serve and are served by their domicile. The multistory de Gracie chateau is a living plant, a mythical tree of life, whose human companions have evolved over tens of thousands of years to function as symbiotes to what they call the mother-tree.<br><br>Complicating matters, the fighting in Afghanistan has earned him an implacable human enemy, one whose culture insists on vendetta. Fahad, a Taliban commander, backed by the vast resources of a wealthy Saudi family, seeks revenge for Hugh’s killing of his relatives. In less than a year, the war will come to upper New York State.<br><br>About the Author<br>Dennis Maulsby is a retired bank president living in Ames, Iowa with his wife Ruth, a retired legal secretary and his dog Charlie, a retired CIA operative. A son and grandson, Matt and Kaden, live in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry and short stories have appeared in Lyrical Iowa, The North American Review, Haiku Journal, Spillway, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Briarcliff Review, and numerous other journals.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
6/11/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Write-In for Authors
<p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
7/09/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids