Adult Services
Friends Book Club
Join us for the Friends of the Library Book Club (FOL Book Club)!
-
Book Selection: The Rive is Waiting
-
Location: Glenwood City Public Library
-
Time & Date: 7:00, June 22, 2026
June Book Selection
The River is Waiting
By: Wally Lamb
DESCRIPTION:
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart.
Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
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: The River is Waiting
Author: Wally Lamb
Location: Glenwood City Public Library
Time & Date: 12:30 on Monday, July 6, 2026
July Book Selection
The River is Waiting
By: Wally Lamb
The description is from goodreads
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart.
Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
This is a Free Event and everyone is welcome.
Information coming in the fall
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.
June – Located at Hammond Public Library | Hosted byHammond Public Library
Book: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Description: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
Watch for 2025 Community One Read information.
Supporting A Community
with Kindness
Our vision is to inspire groups of volunteers around the country to crochet/knit, collect, and donate bar soap to their local food pantries, homeless shelters, relief efforts, mission trips, social service agencies, and veterans clinics. (soapsacks.com)
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.