This Week at the Clear Lake Library
Feb 18, 2024 4:35 pm
Monday, February 19th
Monday, February 19th at 6:00 pm
Bring a pencil and some paper (or grab your laptop) and join a community of writers. Use the time to work on a project or join in on the prompts and games provided. The group meets from 6:00 - 7:00 pm on Monday nights whenever the library is open.
Tuesday, February 20th
Wednesday, February 20th at 3:30 pm
The Book Chat group meets the third Tuesday of the month at the Clear Lake Public Library in the meeting room. February's book is Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal.
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel's grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.
Wednesday, February 21st
Wednesday, February 21st at 10:30 am
Story time is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday, year-round. Story time consists of stories, body movement activities, songs, and rhymes, helping children grow the skills they need to become lifelong readers. Young children and their grown-ups are invited to join us for these free weekly events!
Wednesday, February 21st from 2:30 - 4:30 pm
On the 3rd Wednesday of every month, all ages are invited to join us in the meeting room for a few hours of building fun from 2:30 4:30 p.m. Come and go program. No registration required.
Wednesday, February 21st at 6:00 pm
The Books on Tap group meets the third Wednesday of the month at Lake Time Brewery. February's book is Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal.
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel's grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.
Wednesday, February 21st at 6:30 pm
Cultivate your gardening knowledge with us weekly throughout February at 6:30 pm. Tonight, Sarah DeBour will teach us how to get our seeds started so they're ready to plant in time for spring!
In partnership with the Cerro Gordo ISU Extension.
Thursday, February 22nd
Thursday, February 22nd at 3:30 pm
The winter session of Casual Chess Club will run January 18 - February 29 on Thursdays from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Players of all ages and abilities are invited to join us during this time. Attend on weeks that you are able to play a game with a friend or a stranger.
Children in grades 1-5 wishing to ride the bus from Clear Creek must register for the program, but teens and adults are welcome to join us on a drop-in basis. Please direct all questions to Brianna at librarykids@cltel.net. Registration for this session required by January 16th.
Thursday, February 22nd at 6:00 pm
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are so far none.
In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDR's character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of American industrial and military effort; and, all the while, he aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent catastrophe, his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor, who was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth century's greatest political reformers.
Thursday, February 22nd at 6:00 pm
Throw on your pajamas, bring a stuffie and a blanket if you'd like, and come join us for a fun bedtime story time at the library.
Friday, February 23rd
Friday, February 23rd at 10:30 am
Join us on Friday mornings at 10:30 a.m. for a fun, one-on-one program with bouncing rhymes, books, bubbles, music, and group play just for our youngest patrons. This program is designed for ages birth to 24 months with a parent or caregiver.
February Introverts Book Club: The Sentence
A monthly opportunity to read the same books as others in the community without the added obligation to meet and discuss the book. Just check it out and return it like you would with any other inter-library loan book!
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
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