The ICPL Bookmobile will be open for browsing, check out, and a fun activity from 8 to 11 a.m. during the Iowa City Farmers Market through August 20. Library staff look forward to helping you pick up your holds, get a free bus pass back home when you show your ICPL card, and chatting about new books and materials with you!
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Connect with friends, family, and neighbors this summer at Party in the Park.
These events occur weekly, on Thursdays, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy live music, games, the ICPL Bookmobile, arts and crafts, and treats.
Visit the Bookmobile at the 44th Annual Fly-In Breakfast hosted by the Iowa City Optimist Club. Additional activities include Aircraft, Helicopters, Hearing Screenings, Friends from the Iowa City Children's Museum, Antique & Sports Cars, Duder the Clown, and more. Visit our calendar for more details.
If you’re often split between your long to-read list and your long to-do list, Gran Nana can help you quickly find an appealing title to make your decision a bunch easier. Visit Gran Nana at the Produce Photo Booth during Farmers Markets to learn about these sweet reads and several others
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day she finds the body of a murdered boy.Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb.
A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth remembering. Driven by Jawad’s haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs.
When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she's resigned herself to a quiet life.But that all changes the night of the party at the Century Club, where she escapes to the garden for some peace and quiet—and instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows. Half an hour later, the party turns into a murder scene.When a vulnerable woman is connected to the crime, Kaveri becomes determined to save her and launches a private investigation to find the killer, tracing his steps from an illustrious brothel to an Englishman's mansion. She soon finds that sleuthing in a sari isn't as hard as it seems when you have a talent for mathematics, a head for logic, and a doctor for a husband . . .
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
This book is in development as a Hulu original series and will be produced by Oprah Winfrey.
Stock up on produce and library materials when you visit the ICPL Bookmobile at the University Heights Farmers Market.
The Bookmobile can be found parked along Melrose in front of Stella Restaurant. The Market is located just across the road in the Courtyard parking lot by the Mariott. The Bookmobile is at this location every Tuesday from 4 to 4:30 p.m. through the summer schedule period.
The University Heights Farmers Market runs from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays. Bookmobile staff member, Shawna, is especially excited about this partnership, “Pick up dinner from the market and a movie for the Bookmobile, and you’re set for a fabulous evening!”
