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
  • audio books
  • 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:
  • seven 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

APRIL 2023
FICTION
F Adams – The Last Word
F Adams – Paper Cuts
F Balducci – Simply Lies
F Berman – Before We Were Innocent
F Brennan – Seven Girls Gone
F Byler – The Weaving of Life
F Calvert – By Your Side
F Calvert – Maybe It’s You
F Calvert – Step by Step
F Cameron - Breakneck
F Clark – Where Are the Children Now?
F Clipston – Breaking New Ground
F Dallas – Where Coyotes Howl
F Deveraux – My Heart Will Find You
F Dickens – A Dickens Christmas Collection
F Fox – The Last Heir to the Blackwood Library
F Frazier – The Trackers
F Graham – Shadow of Death
F Hannon – Windswept Way
F Hart – Weyward
F Henry – Happy Place
F Hepworth – The Soulmate
F Jackson – With My Little Eye
F James – Broker of Lies
F Janowitz – The Audrey Hepburn Estate
F Jimenez – Yours Truly
F Johnson – The House of Eve
F Kang – Greek Lessons
F Kelly – The Golden Doves
F Kingfisher – A House with Good Bones
F Lauren – Something Wilder
F Lavalle – Lone Women
F Miranda – The Only Survivors
F Moore – The Lost Wife
F Morton – Homecoming
F Page – The Keeper of Stories
F Palmer – The Loner
F Patterson – Things I wish I Told My Mother
F Pelayo – The Shoemaker’s Magician
F Prusa – None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive
F Riddle – Quantum Radio
F Robson – Coronation Year
F Sanderson – Tress of the Emerald
F Sandford – Dark Angel
F Sawyer – Return to Boone’s Hollow
F Sawyer – The Tapestry of Grace
F Sittenfeld – Romantic Comedy
F Smith – Silver Alert
F Stabenow – Not the Ones Dead
F Steel – Without a Trace
F Stradal – Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
F Walker – Miss Newbury’s List
F Ward – Lassiter
F Winslow – City of Dreams
F Wiseman – Hopefully Ever After
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​LARGE PRINT – FICTION
F Baldacci LGPR – Simply Lies
F Moyes LGPR – Someone Else’s Shoes
F Ross LGPR – Second Chance Spring
M Todd LGPR – A Game of Fear
F Winspear LGPR – The White Lady
MYSTERY
M Davis – A Gentle Murderer
M Estleman – City Walls
M Farmer – Death of a Bookseller
M Graves – Death by Chocolate Marshmallow PIe
M Griffiths – The Last Remains
M Hastings – Of Manners and Murder
M Hillerman – The Way of the Bear
M Perry – The Fourth Enemy
M Raybourn – A Sinister Revenge
M Robinson – Standing in the Shadows
M Thompson – Murder on Bedford Street
M Wilde – The Secret of the Lost Pearls

SCIENCE FICTION


WESTERN


NONFICTION
070.4 MCG – Welcome to the Circus of Baseball
179 BAT – Please Sorry Thanks
306.874 KEL – It. Goes. So. Fast.
332.024 BUR – I Want More Pizza
322.4 EGA – A Fever in the Heartland
332.4 CHA – How to Money
362.28 MAR – How to Not Kill Yourself
362.292 MCK – Push Off from Here
363.209 CLA – Follow Me to Hell
378.38 CHA – Paying for College
610 NEL – The Body Code
613.7 STA – Built to Move
616.8498 WU – Hello Sleep
641.597 LAM – Y’All Eat Yet?
658.4 MCR – The Wisdom of the Bullfrog
746.434 FLE – Quilt It Crochet It!
821.8 KIP – Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
823 KIP – Collected Stories  (Kipling)
910.452 GRA – The Wager
940.53 LOF – The Watchmaker’s Daughter
940.54 MCG – Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin
959.7 DON – The Greatest Beer Run Ever
959.704 BLA – The Long Reckoning
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LARGE PRINT - NONFICTION


BIOGRAPHY
B Chung – A Living Remedy
B Moore – All My Knotted-Up Life
B POE – A Mystery of Mysteries

BOOKS ON CD
CD B Grainger – So Much Owed
CD B Gray – Sycamore Circle
CD B Sexton – On the Rooftop
CD B Washburn – The Rocking R Ranch

PLAYAWAYS


DVD
DVD 4830 N – NCIS New Orleans, season 4
DVD 4834 M – The Middle, season 6
DVD 4835 M – The Middle, season 7
DVD 4836 M – The Middle, season 9
DVD 4837 D – Devotion
DVD 4838 R – Rip in Time

CHILDREN’S DVD


BLU-RAY
B-R 666 D – Devotion

CHILDREN'S BLU-RAY
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EQUIPMENT

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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
​Construction Beauty

Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports on Health
Cook’s Country
Cook’s Illustrated
Country Living
Country Sampler
Crochet World
D-L
​Do It Yourself
Family Handyman
Family Tree
Farmhouse Style

First for Women
Food Network
Fur-Fish-Game
Garden Gate
Good Housekeeping
Grit
Harper's
HGTV

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

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

Mother Earth News
National Geographic
National Geographic History

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

This Old House
Time
Travel & Leisure
​Woman’s Day

Newspapers Available Online:

Bloomington Pantagraph (digital editions for 1857 - 2021 are available on public computers)
Peoria Journal Star (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.
Ongoing Programs:
Book Club | First Thursdays 6:30 PM

Book Club

Book Club meets the first Thursday of every month! 

​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.
Mystery Book Club | Second Mondays 10:00 AM

Mystery Book Club

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

June theme: 
locked rooms and isolated island mysteries
​​
Monday, June 12 | 10:00 AM
Free program.
Program Room/Zoom
Program in a Bag

Program in a Bag

June's Program in a Bag:
Diamond Painting Kit

Every month there will be a new themed bag with a craft, book list, and other activities! For June we'll have Diamond Painting Kits!
​
Pick up starting Thursday, June 22.
*First come, first served. While supplies last.*
Special Programs:
Deer Resistant Plants

Deer Resistant Plants

Keeping your beautiful garden safe from deer is as simple as choosing the right plants. Master Gardener Gretchen Strauch will discuss some of the prettiest annuals, perennials, bulbs, and shrubs that deer don't eat.

​Monday, June 12 | 6:00 PM
Free program. Registration required before 4:00 PM on Friday, June 9!
Program Room


Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309-467-2922 ext. 1.​
Art at the Bodega @ EPLD: Turtle Watercolor Ceramic Plate

Art at the Bodega @ EPLD: Turtle Watercolor Ceramic Plate

Join us for this fun, easy, and versatile ceramic project. Follow step-by-step instructions to make a beautiful Watercolor Sea Turtle piece. Art at the Bodega staff will be sharing some fun techniques to create all of the details! You can pick up your project 7 days from the date of the class and it will be 100% food safe, or you can use it as decoration!

Tuesday, June 13 | 10:00 AM
Cost: $40. Ages 13+. Registration required!
Program Room

​
Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309-467-2922 ext. 1.​
History of Eureka Lake

History of Eureka Lake

We will explore why the city created the lake in 1941, improvements made to the property over the years, and recreational use of the lake and property. We will also touch on the tragic drownings which led to swimming being prohibited and the Eureka Rescue Squad being created.
​

Thursday, June 15 | 6:00 PM
Free hybrid program. Registration required before 4:00 PM on Tuesday, June 13!
Program Room & Zoom


To join us in-person: Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309-467-2922 ext. 1.​

To join us on Zoom: Register online!

Art at the Bodega @ EPLD: Fused Glass Mushroom

Art at the Bodega @ EPLD: Fused Glass Mushroom

Learn the fundamentals of fused glass art to create beautiful and whimsical glass mushroom yard stakes for your garden or yard. Participants will source unique combinations of colored glass, their choice of patterned glass and enamel powders, and various other embellishments to create one-of-a-kind designs. No prior experience is required! Your piece will be ready for pickup in approximately 14 days.

Thursday, June 29 | 5:30 PM
Cost: $40. Ages 13+. Registration required!
Program Room

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Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309-467-2922 ext. 1.​

address

202 S. Main St.
​Eureka, IL 61530

phone

309-467-2922

hours

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

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

Saturday:
CLOSED
(Memorial Day - Labor Day)
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  • At The Library
    • Summer Reading Program 2023
    • Program Calendar
    • Kids
    • Teens
    • Adults
    • Get a Library Card
    • Loan Periods and Fines
    • Access Your Account
    • Library of Things
  • Find Books & More
    • Search Catalog
    • Wowbrary: Latest Additions
    • Interlibrary Loans
    • Ebooks & Audiobooks
    • Online Music and Movies
    • Digital Magazines & Newspapers
    • E-Sequels
    • Staff Book Reviews
    • Pages of Eureka
  • Services
    • Outreach
    • Porch Pickup
    • Free Services
    • Copy, Print, & Fax
    • Educational Materials Request
    • Talking Books
    • Explore More Illinois
    • Online Classes
    • Niche Academy
    • READsquared
  • Research
    • COVID-19 Resources
    • Genealogy & Local History
    • Eureka Pumpkin Festival
    • City & County Resources
    • State & Federal Resources
    • Tax Form Information
    • Voter Information