Join us at the Iowa City Public Library for a book discussion of the 2012 All Iowa Reads selection, “Strength in What Remains” by Tracy Kidder. Saturday, June 30, 1:00-2:00pm Meeting Room E (2nd Floor) This book tells the true story of Deogratias, a young physician from Burundi, who survives genocide only to find himself [...]

The annual Adult Summer Reading Program will begin this year on Sunday, June 5 and continue through Sunday, July 31. Participants can sign up at the Fiction Desk where they will receive a Reading Form. After reading five books, participants fill out the Reading Form, return it to Fiction Desk staff in the Library and [...]

What eAudio titles are people listening to? ICPL’s eAudio circulation is up over 70% this year. Many people are discovering how easy and convenient it is to check out and then “click out” an eAudio book 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Library’s collection includes over 1,800 eAudio titles and all are [...]

The annual Adult Summer Reading Program will begin this year on Sunday, June 6 and continue through Friday, July 30. Participants can sign up at the Fiction Desk where they will receive a Reading Form. After reading five books, participants fill out the Reading Form, return it to Fiction Desk staff in the Library and [...]

Join us for “Building the Collection: Celebrating the Creative Spirit,” a live and silent auction to benefit the Iowa City Public Library, hosted by the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation. The event will be held at hotelVetro from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, May 2, with the live auction starting at 7 p.m. Just of the [...]

This week’s headlines at a glance. Also available on our Facebook page by clicking here. Iowa City has lot to offer Zach Wahls • Writers’ Group • January 17, 2010 Iowa City Press-Citizen Source: www.press-citizen.com Excerpt: OK, the library has its critics. But I’ve got to say, the library is awesome. Free meeting rooms. All [...]

With “Driftless,” Rhodes returns to the Midwestern landscape he knows so well, offering a fascinating and entirely unsentimental portrait of a town apparently left behind by the march of time. Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters.