Spring has sprung, and if you’re eager to get out of the house and into the garden, the library has resources for you. Start with some inspiration from notable gardens around Iowa. The Master Gardeners of Linn County are wrapping up their Tuesday evening talks at Ladd Library on March 29 at 6:30 pm with… View more
The Last Thing He Told Me…was that this book was going to be incredibly popular with patrons at the Downtown branch. It’s Better This Way by Debbie Macomber was the second most popular adult fiction Downtown. John Grisham’s The Judge’s List was the most popular fiction title for patrons at the Ladd branch. The memoir… View more
Continuing it’s hold at the top of the popular adult fiction checkouts for patrons at the Downtown library is The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. This book has remained the most popular adult fiction checkout since October 2021. For patrons at Ladd, Debbie Macomber’s It’s Better This Way was the most popular… View more
With such popularity, it’s unsurprising that the top adult fiction checkout for the Downtown Library is The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave for a second month in a row. Adult fiction checkouts were more varied at Ladd with a ten-way tie for the top spot including last months favorite 2 Sisters Detective… View more
The top adult fiction checkout for the Downtown Library was The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave while 2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox was Ladd Library’s main attraction. Patrons Downtown made Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover their top nonfiction checkout, keeping the title, which spent 132 consecutive… View more
Read the book before the film hits your screens! These children and young adult stories were recently acquired for film or television adaptation. Check them out before everyone else does and stay off the holds list. Written by Stephanie Perkins for a young adult, horror-loving audience, There’s Someone Inside Your House was purchased by Netflix… View more
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace PerryPublished June 1, 2021. Social Science. A longtime contributor to The Onion and The Reductress, Perry turns her pen to the 2000s pop culture she grew up on. In a time when queer representation was largely missing from mainstream media, she recounts finding it… View more
November is National Native American Heritage Month. What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. The American Library Association… View more
Beloved actor, author, and activist George Takei is many things to many people; Sulu, helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise on Star Trek, Broadway performer, groundbreaking activist for LGBTQIA+ people as well as Asian and Asian Americans, and author of the bestselling They Called Us Enemy, a graphic memoir of his childhood in the American concentration camps during… View more
With our community working hard to stay home and healthy, it might be difficult to figure out what to read next! Check out this Childrens Fiction Series List and start a new series for yourself or as a family read aloud. This list includes the series name as well as the first title in the series to… View more
