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Thank you! This year we had over 700 sign-ups for Summer Reading! Thank you to all who participated! And a thank you to our sponsors, the City of Adel, Parks and Recreation, and Waukee Palms Theater. |
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Harry Potter Escape Room (Ages 11-101 years old) In this Harry Potter-themed escape room, teams of 4 people will be challenged to solve puzzles, decipher clues, and use their magical abilities to unravel the mystery and escape the room. If registering as a team, make sure to register every person on your team in the time slot. Slots available August 30-31st, 9:30am-5pm |
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Tail Wagging Readers Children under 8 years of age must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
Visit and read to a furry friend from the A.R.L. Therapets program! Thursday, August 1st @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
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Yoga at the Library (Adult program) Free will donations are accepted for this program. A licensed yoga teacher leads a class to help you relax in the middle of the work week. All skill levels are welcome. @5:45 PM |
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50's Plus Senior Gathering This all-inclusive seniors group will be meeting in the Adel Public Library Community Room for cards, coffee, and connection. Meet new people or spend time with old friends, the goal is to enjoy some social time! Tuesday, July 30th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
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Niagara Falls All over Again
by Elizabeth McCracken
During thirty years together as the most famous comedy team of their era, conniving comedian Rocky Carter and his straightman, Mose Sharp, a small-town boy from Valley Junction, Iowa, have enjoyed a warm relationship and encountered a host of colorful characters on their road to fame and fortune, until Rocky commits a desperate act of betrayal.
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Klara and the sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"
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The summer we forgot : a novel
by Caroline George
Reunited over the death of their former science teacher, a group of friends suspects there is a murderer on the loose and must try to recover their missing memories from the previous summer before the history they cannot remember repeats itself. Simultaneous eBook.
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Parable of the sower
by Octavia E. Butler
When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
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The ministry of time
by Kaliane Bradley
To establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time, a“bridge” who lives with, assists and monitors the expat known as“1847” or Commander Graham Gore, falls fervently in love, with consequences she never could've imagined—ones that could change the future.
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Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana MikutaA Gearbreaker, Eris Shindanai destroys giant mechanized weapons called Windups from the inside until one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in prison facing off against a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot.
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