Adult Services
Friends Book Club
Join us for the Friends of the Library Book Club (FOL Book Club)!
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Book Selection: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
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Location: Glenwood City Public Library
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Time & Date: 7:00, March 25, 2024
March Book Selection
Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
DESCRIPTION:
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it’s a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a future different from the expected path of wife and mother; Cecelia, the family’s artist; and Emeline, who patiently takes care of all of them. Happily, the Padavanos fold Julia’s new boyfriend into their loving, chaotic household.
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable loyalty to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?
Vibrating with tenderness, Hello Beautiful is a gorgeous, profoundly moving portrait of what’s possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.
Cost: Free
This is a free event open to everyone.
Afternoon Book Club
Please come and join us for the Afternoon Book Club
Book Selection: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
Location: Glenwood City Public Library
Time & Date: 12:30 on Monday, April 1, 2024
April Book Selection
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
By: Gail Honeyman
The description is from goodreads
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.
This is a Free Event and everyone is welcome.
Winter Reading Program – Reading Around the World
- Read a book that is set in any country.
- Bring your Reading Passport in to get it stamped.
- When you fill up your passport please ask for more pages.
- With Every stamp in the passport, you will be entered into the drawing. Chance to win a $50.00 Cenex Card
- All Reading Passports must be turned in by March 31st to be entered in another drawing. Chance to win a $100 Kwik Trip Card.
- Passports can be picked up at the Glenwood City Public Library
Meets the third Thursday each month @ 6:00 pm for dinner, discussion begins at 6:30.
A new Traveling Book Club will rotate each month between different restaurants.
Join friends from around St. Croix County! Explore different towns and eateries while you meet new people and try new books.
Please contact the host library to register.
Community One Read coming soon
The GCPL supports the “Click for Babies” program (https://www.clickforbabies.org/about-click-for-babies-campaign.php).
What is entailed:
- We are asking knitters and crocheters to make baby hats, booties or both to be donated to the program.
- The baby hats and booties need to be 50% or more purple in any shade.
- You can get patterns from the link above.
- Pick out a newborn size baby cap or baby booties pattern! Please refrain from including any potential choking and strangling hazards to babies such as pom-poms, tassels, straps, bows, ribbons, or buttons.
- Drop them off at the GCPL and will ship them in late September to Madison.