by Melissa Smoot | Oct 2, 2025 | Children, Iola Reads, News
Our Fall 2025 Children’s book will be available October 6. We selected Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures, Young Reader’s Edition. Books will be available at the following locations: Iola Public Library, Community National Bank, Vision Source, Senior...
by Sharon Moreland | Sep 30, 2025 | Adults, Iola Reads, News
We have a full month of activities planned for October! Along with our monthly and weekly activities, like storytime, In Stitches, YA In Stitches, Book Talk, Old Timers Talking, and now Genealogy Assistance, we have several EXTRA events to share: Saturday, Oct. 4:...
by Melissa Smoot | Jan 30, 2025 | Iola Reads
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...
