by Melissa Smoot | Feb 22, 2024 | Adults, Iola Reads, News
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....
by Sharon Moreland | Feb 28, 2022 | Iola Reads
Join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 1 in the Meeting Room for a Fort Scott National Park Ranger presentation in support of Iola Reads. Refreshments will be served. See you there! IOLA READS Committee A project of the Iola Public Library, USD 257 and the Bowlus Fine...
by Sharon Moreland | Feb 8, 2022 | Iola Reads
Please join us in… The IOLA READS Community Selection 2022, “Take Me With You” by Catherine Ryan Hyde, is about a burned-out teacher who rises above his grief and transforms the lives of two young boys, forever. The power of a teacher! (Books available at the...
