EUREKA PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT (Eureka, Illinois)
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ADULTS

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Materials for adults are located on the first floor of the library. Materials includes:
  • fiction
  • nonfiction
  • large print
  • westerns
  • biographies
  • audiobooks
  • magazines
  • ​newspapers (additionally, our digital newspapers are available here)
  • movies/television series (for all ages)
  • a cool library of things (more details here)
​In addition, the first floor houses:
  • four public computer stations 
  • copier/scanner/fax machine
  • Friends of the Eureka Public Library District Book Sale Room
​If you need help with locating something, just ask staff for assistance.

New Adult Books & Movies

JULY 2026
FICTION
F Barelli – The Housewife
F Bozeman – Summer’s Never Over
F Brennan – Whisper Creek
F Brunstetter – The Melody of Love
F Byler – The Ties That Bind (Seekers #2)
F Cliff – Miss Bates
F Clipston – Candy Apple Kisses
F Coble – Conspiracy
F Giffin – Love You More
F Golden – Carry Me to My Grave
F Gray – D is for Daisy (Amish ABC’s #4)
F Gray – The Unexpected Caller (The Amish Widows Club #1)
F Guda – A Cat in Sancerre
F Hays – Where the Dogwoods Bloom Again
F Higgins – Once in a Blue Moon
F Holiday – Book Club Boyfriend
F Huggler – The Woman She Left Behind
F Jackson – The Shampoo Effect
F Jewel – It Could Have Been Her
F Johansen – Wait and See (Kendra Michaels #12)
F Knightley – The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed #2)
F Lauren – The Romance Revival
F Lavine – Not That Kind of Proposal
F Lee – A Team of Five (An Unsanctioned Asset Thriller #5)
F Lee – A Team of Four (An Unsanctioned Asset Thriller #4)
F McCreight – Someone Else’s Husband
F Mason – Country People
F Maum – Alan Opts Out
F Messier – Every Version of You
F Nova – The Last Sweet Taste
F Oates – The Frenzy
F Okie – Tropesick
F Patterson – The Country Road Murders
F Perlman – The Riddle of the Trees
F Peterson- A Life So True
F Powner – The Second Chance Trailer Park
F Reilly – Yes, Chef
F Sampson – Most Ardently Yours
F Scottoline – This Changes Everything (Julia #2)
F Shalvis – Falling into You (Colburn Brothers #3)
F Silva – Ransom (Gabriel Allon #26)
F Solomon – Extra-Curricular
F Steel - Weddings
F Stone – The Beauty of the Days Gone By
F Taylor – The Many Seas of Guernsey
F Upana – Everything to the Sea
F White – The Spy Keeper of Marseille
F Whitehead – Cool Machine (Harlem Trilogy #3)
F Williams – When You Loved Me
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​LARGE PRINT – FICTION
M Austin  LGPR – The Lumber Baron’s Wife
M Connolly LGPR – A River Red with Blood
F Gabhart LGPR – A Chance for Kallie Mae
F Hardinger LGPR – Won’t Be Long Now
F Harvey LGPR – Summer State of Mind
W Hogan LGPR – The Tombstone Trail
F Hyde LGPR – Come Back to the World
F Jeremiah LGPR – Shattered (Vanished #2)
F Levi LGPR – Theo of Golden
F Linden LGPR – A Sprinkle of Sweet Serendipity
F McKinlay LGPR – The Summer Share
F Murray LGPR – Since the Day We Left (Hadley Cove Sweet Romance #5)
F See LGPR – Daughters of the Sun and Moon
F Vetsch LGPR – The Marriage Masquerade (Brides of the West #2)
F Warren LGPR – Scent of Hope (Call of the Wild #2)
MYSTERY
M Birds – Birds of Prey
M Castillo – A Dark Path
M Crawford – A Catered PTA Murder (Mystery with Recipes #20)
M Denfeld – The Talking Bone
M Dodd – Teach the Torches to Burn (Daughter of Montague #3)
M Doiron – Storm Tide (Mike Bowditch #16)
M Jackson – Not What it Seems (Savannah #5)
M Lawson – McKenna’s Guy
M London – Rules for Aging and Larceny
M McCall Smith – The Subtle Pleasures of Indescretion (Isabel Dahhousie #16)
M Manning – The Paris Mystery
M Piazza – The Parisian Heist
M Rice – Until Midnight
M Rimmer – The Story Keeper
M Rosenfelt – Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch
M Stephens – Don’t Upstage the Body
M Vaughan – Based on a True Story
M Viets – Beach Blonde Betrayal (Florida Beach #2)
M Viets – Sex and Death on the Beach (Florida Beach #1)
M Waxman – Deadly Does It (Mason & Mann #2)
M Woolsoncroft – The Season of Sinking
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SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
SF Cleeton  - An Infinite Love Story
F Goff – The Farewitch of Foxe Holler
F Kova – Prince of Swords (Arcana Academy #2)
F Parker – The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Moonfall #2)
F Sanderson – Songs of the Dead
SF Thorne – Moss’d in Space (Moss’d in Space #1)
SF Unferth – Earth 7

WESTERN
W Johnstone – Whiskey Woods (Texas Whiskey Wars #1)

NONFICTION
641.578 OLI – Grill
649.1 SUS – Human Raised; nurturing connection, curiosity & lifelong learning in the age of AI)
738.1 BRA – Air-Dry Masterpieces
811.54 SPA – Ars Poeticas
914.504 FRO – Frommer’s Rome, Florence and Venice 2026
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LARGE PRINT - NONFICTION

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BIOGRAPHY
B Baker - Crossroads
B Ford – The Hardest, Longest Race
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LARGE PRINT - BIOGRAPHY


AUDIOBOOKS

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DVD
DVD 5355 C – Crime 101
DVD 5356 R – Rise of the Conqueror
DVD 5357 T TV – The Thing About Pam
DVD 5358 D – Dakota: American Adventures (10-movie set)
DVD 5359 T – Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases
DVD 5360 S – Sounder / A Dog of Flanders
DVD 5361 S – The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
DVD 5362 A – Animal Farm
DVD 5363 M - Michael
DVD 5364 N - Normal

CHILDREN’S DVD

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BLU-RAY
B-R 748 H - Hamilton

CHILDREN'S BLU-RAY
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EQUIPMENT


PUZZLES


GAMES

Magazines Are Available For A One-Week Check Out With No Renewals:
A-C
Allrecipes​
American Farmhouse Style
​American Patchwork and Quilting

Better Homes & Gardens
Birds & Blooms
Coastal Living
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports on Health
Cook’s Country
Cook’s Illustrated
​Country Home

Country Living
Country Sampler
Crochet World
D-L
Dwell
Family Handyman
Family Tree
Farmhouse Style

First for Women
Food Network
Fur-Fish-Game
Garden Gate
Good Housekeeping
Grit
Hearing Health
HGTV
​Homestead Living

Horticulture
House Beautiful
Illinois Heritage
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society​
​Kiplinger's

Kiplinger's Retirement
Life, Beautiful
M-P
Magnolia Journal
Mary Jane’s Farm​
Midwest Living

Mother Earth News
National Geographic
National Geographic History
National Parks

People
​Pioneer Woman
Prevention
Q-W
Quick Quilts
Reader’s Digest
Reader’s Digest (large print edition)
Real Simple
Runner’s World
Smithsonian
Southern Living
Sports Illustrated
​Taste of Home
​Tea Time

Time
Travel & Leisure
​Woman’s Day
A variety of digital magazines are available through Libby and Hoopla.

Newspapers Available Online:

Chicago Sun-Times (digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
Bloomington Pantagraph 
(
digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
Peoria Journal Star (digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
USA Today 
(digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
Woodford County Journal (digital editions for 18
96 - 2021 are available on public computers)
Print copies of select newspapers are available in our magazine room.

Programs for Adults

Educational and social programs are held throughout the month.

​Many of our programs are currently held as hybrid in-person/online events. Patrons wanting to attend via the Zoom platform will require online registration, while patrons wanting to attend in-person should sign up at the adult circulation desk. View the recordings of our hybrid programs on our YouTube channel!
Ongoing Programs:
Share Your Story

Share Your Story

This program is a fun and casual way to tell stories about our lives. We come together, reminisce, share a story, and listen. One goal of the program is to record our stories for our loved ones. Please contact Angela Roberts if you have any questions.

​1st Thursdays
10:00 - 11:00 AM
@ AC Home of Eureka
Musings on Main Book Club

Musings on Main Book Club

The Musings on Main Book Club meets on the first Thursday of every month! 
​
1st Thursdays
6:00 PM
Program Room

​
Book Club is has a participant limit of 12, and is currently full. Please fill out the contact form if you would like to be considered when a spot opens up.
Monday Morning Mystery Book Club

Monday Morning Mystery Book Club

Join us for our Mystery Book Club on the second Monday of every month!

This month's topic: Dying for Pie (mysteries with a pie theme)

2nd Mondays
10:00 AM
Program Room
Wits Fitness

Wits Fitness

Ready to give your brain a workout? Join Illinois Extension Educator Sara Attig as she leads participants through new interactive activities designed to exercise the brain to maintain and enhance cognitive function and memory.
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2nd Wednesdays
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Program Room

Maple Lawn Book Club

Maple Lawn Book Club

Join librarian Debra Blunier for this fun book club at Maple Lawn!
​
3rd Mondays
​2:00 PM
@ Maple Lawn
Share Your Story

Share Your Story

This program is a fun and casual way to tell stories about our lives. We come together, reminisce, share a story, and listen. One goal of the program is to record our stories for our loved ones. Please contact Angela Roberts if you have any questions.
​

3rd Thursdays
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
@ Maple Lawn
Book BINGO

Book BINGO

Drop in for a fun evening of BINGO at the library! Lots of prizes, including books! Ages 13+.
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Thursday, August 20
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Program Room
Crafts to GO!

Crafts to GO!

Adults can pick up a fun new craft project on the last Saturday of each month! Ages 18+. Available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
​
Last Saturday of the Month
While supplies last!
Adult Circulation Desk
Special Programs:
Local History Series

Local History Series
Project XV Museum

Project XV Museum, in downtown El Paso, Illinois is the only comprehensive, nonpartisan voting rights museum in the nation! The museum is built alongside the historic barbershop of David Strother - the first African American man to vote in Illinois after the passage of the 15th Amendment. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

Friday, August 21
10:00 AM
Program Room


Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.
Diamond Art Workshop

Diamond Art Workshop

Join Cindy O'Neill at EPLD for a fun diamond painting workshop. Participants will make a 'stained glass' floral magnet to take home. All supplies provided. Space is limited! Ages 12+. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

August program: 'stained glass' floral magnets

Saturday, August 22
9:30 - 11:30 AM
Program Room
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Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.
Local History Series

Local History Series
Celebrating Local Heroes: The 86th Volunteer Infantry, 1864 - 1865

Brad Hanner will be back at EPLD to discuss the 86th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Covering the period of 1864 to 1865, Hanner will discuss the intense fighting the soldiers faced - particularly at Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864. Company A of the 86th was largely made up of Olio Township and Woodford County men, including Captain Jo Major. Eleven local men lost their lives on Kennesaw Mountain and eighteen additional Company A men died over the course of the war. In 1868 the Civil War Soldiers Monument in Olio Cemetery was dedicated in memory them. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

Tuesday, August 25
​6:30 PM
Program Room
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Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.

address

Eureka Public Library District
​202 S. Main St.
​Eureka, IL 61530

phone

309.467.2922

fax

309.467.3527

hours

Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday:
​9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Wednesday & Friday:
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Saturday:
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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    • About EPLD
    • Contact Us
    • Library Board
    • Library Policies
    • Staff & Employment
    • Friends of the Library
    • Donations
    • Library Newsletter
    • Fine Free
  • At The Library
    • Program Calendar
    • Read Local 2026
    • Kids
    • Teens
    • Adults
    • Get a Library Card
    • Loan Periods and Fines
    • Library of Things
    • Hotspots
    • Seed Library
  • Find Books & More
    • Search Catalog
    • Access Your Account
    • Wowbrary: Latest Additions
    • Interlibrary Loans
    • Digital Resources
    • Hoopla Changes August 2026
    • Staff Book Reviews
  • Services
    • Outreach
    • Porch Pickup
    • Free Services
    • Copy, Print, & Fax
    • Educational Materials Request
    • Talking Books
    • Explore More Illinois
    • Online Classes
    • Mango Languages
    • Niche Academy
  • Research
    • IRIS: Illinois Reliable Information Sources
    • Genealogy & Local History
    • Eureka Pumpkin Festival
    • City & County Resources
    • State & Federal Resources
    • Tax Form Information
    • Voter Information