Illustrator Kim Howard hosts Magic Circus Mask-Making prior to the release and signing of her book “Un Circo Magico, entre amigos” at 6:00 pm in the lecture room. Unleash your creativity and a make a special mask with feathers, paper, glue, and sequins. Then visit her book signing in the lecture room at 6:00 pm to find out more about her children’s book.
The Community Library
Family Movie: Maleficent
Join us in the Children’s Library on Saturday, December 27th at 3:00 pm for a screening of Disney’s Maleficent. This movie is rated PG and is 97 minutes long. Popcorn will be provided.
Pajama Day in the Children’s Library
It’s pajama day in the Children’s Library. Come get cozy with a book, blanket and your PJ’s. We’ll make hot chocolate and cinnamon toast for kids who visit today.
Drop-In: Make a Party Hat
Drop-in at the Children’s Library and decorate a party hat for New Year’s. Party blowers are also available to patrons checking out books today. We will be closing early at 3:00 pm today.
LEGO Day
LEGO Day in the Children’s Library. LEGOs will be available all day. Bring a friend!
Alexander Maksik & Merritt Tierce read & discuss their new novels
Join authors Alexander Maksik and Merritt Tierce as they read from and discuss their new novels and their lives as writers. Alexander will be reading from his as yet untitled novel to be published by Knopf. Merritt will be reading from her newly released novel Love Me Back.
Alexander Maksik is the author of the novels You Deserve Nothing and A Marker to Measure Drift, which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2013. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper’s, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Salon, and Narrative Magazine, among other publications. He is a contributing editor for Condé Nast Traveler, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and The Corporation of Yaddo.
Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. She worked in various secretarial and retail positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow. After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and she is a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Author. Merritt’s first published story, Suck It, was selected by ZZ Packer to be anthologized in the 2008 edition of New Stories from the South, and her first book, Love Me Back, has been recently released to rave reviews.
