by Melissa Smoot | Jan 30, 2025 | Iola Reads, News
Our Spring 2025 Adult book will be available February 3. We selected Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up,...
by Sharon Moreland | Oct 8, 2024 | Children, Iola Reads, News
For our Fall 2024 Youth book selections we have chosen 3 books from Kate Messner’s Ranger in Time series: Rescue on the Oregon Trail Escape from the Great Earthquake Night of Soldiers and Spies This series is about Ranger, a golden...
by Melissa Smoot | Feb 22, 2024 | Adults, Iola Reads
THE BIG READ IS ON! The Iola Reads community selection for 2024 is “True Grit”, the Charles Portis novel made even more famous by the John Wayne movie. Free copies of the book are now available in the familiar yellow tubs, at the library and businesses...
by Sharon Moreland | Oct 2, 2023 | Children, Iola Reads
Iola Reads announces the 2023 Young Adult Selection of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein. Copies of the book are FREE and available in tubs throughout town and here at the Library to take, read, and share. If you’d like to keep a...
by Sharon Moreland | Mar 8, 2023 | Iola Reads, News
Iola Reads tubs with free copies of The Grand Escape available around Iola through the end of March and also at the Iola Public Library. The book this time is Neal Bascomb’s “The Grand Escape”, a non-fiction tale of World War I. The WWI display...
by Sharon Moreland | Oct 7, 2022 | Adults, Iola Reads
Iola Reads announces the 2022 Young Adult Selection of The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn. Copies of the book are provided in tubs throughout town to take, read, and share. If you’d like to keep a copy, the Library will accept your $2 donation....
