EUREKA PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT (Eureka, Illinois)
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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

JUNE 2025
FICTION
F Adler – Finders Keepers
F Amerie – This is Not a Ghost Story
F Armstrong – Death at a Highland Wedding (Rip Through Time #4)
F Armstrong – Writing Mr. Wrong
F Bailey – Our Last Wild Days
F Bartz – The Last Ferry Out
F Bates – The No-End House
F Becker – In the Family Way
F Berry – We Don’t Talk About Carol
F Brady – Battle of the Bookstores
F Brown – What Kind of Paradise
F Buccola – The Ascent
F Burke – Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie (Holland Family #5)
F Center – The Love Haters
F Chianakas – Darkness Calls (local author)
F Clinton – The First Gentleman
F Coble – Where Secrets Lie (Tupelo Grove #2)
F Connelly – Nightshade (Det. Stillwell #1)
F Constantine – Don’t Open Your Eyes
F Daley-Ward – The Catch (Well-Read Black Girl Books #1)
F Driscoll – The House of Two Sisters
F Dugoni – A Dead Draw (Tracy Crosswhite #11)
F Erlick – The Poppy Fields
F Finlay – Parents Weekend
F Foster – The Guest Cottage
F Green – The Codebreaker’s Daughter
F Griep – Of Silver and Secrets (Time’s Lost Treasures #2)
F Gross – Hazel Says No
F Halpern – What We Leave Behind
F Harvey – Beach House Rules
F Hazelwood – Problematic Summer Romance (Meant to Be #2)
F Hedlund – The Heart of a Cowboy (Colorado Cowboys #2)
F Higgins – The Havana Syndrome (Nathan Burke #1)
F Ingram – The Summer We Ran
F Jackson – It Happened on the Lake
F Jewell – Don’t Let Him In
F Johansen – The Death Mask (Eve Duncan #31)
F Kelly – The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club
F King – The Phoenix Pencil Company
F King – Never Flinch
F Koontz – Going Home in the Dark
F Lamb – The River is Waiting
F Lavender – Happy Wife
F Lynch – A Family Matter
F McFadden – The Tenant
F Michelle – Last Night Was Fun
F Monaghan – It’s a Love Story
F Morris – An Ethical Guide to Murder
F Mottley – The Girls Who Grew Big
F Musser – From the Valley We Rise
F Novak – The Summer That Changed Everything
F Patterson – The President’s Shadow (Shadow #3)
F Preston & Child – Badlands (Nora Kelly #5)
F Reay – The English Masterpiece
F Reid - Atmosphere
F Reid – A Very Bavarian Christmas (Very Bavarian #1)
F Roberts – Hidden Nature
F Rosnay – Blonde Dust
F Sager – With a Vengeance
F St. George – Eliza and the Duke (The Doves of New York #2)
F Shalvis – The Love Fix (Sunrise Love #8)
F Sosa – When Javi Dumped Mari
F Steel – A Mind of Her Own
F Steel – A Mother’s Love
F Sutanto – Worth Fighting For
F Thayne – The Lost Book of First Loves
F Trevelyan – A Beautiful Family
F Walter – So Far Gone
F Woods – Finders Keepers (Stone Barrington #66)
F Woodward – Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan Jr Novel: Line of Demarcation (#13)

​LARGE PRINT – FICTION
F Bunn LGPR – Fortunate Harbor (Outer Banks #1)
F Callaway LGPR – The Star of Camp Greene
F Dallas LGPR – Tough Luck
F Davis LGPR – Time to Pay (Maine Justice #8)
M Doiron LGPR – Skin and Bones
F Gould LGPR – The Shop Down the Lane (Letters from Lancaster County #1)
M Grant LGPR – These Silent Woods
W Johnstone LGPR – The High Country (Novel of the American Frontier #2)
F Martin LGPR – The Keeper (Murphy Shepherd #4)
F Mathis LGPR – Emma’s Engagement (Love at a Lighthouse #3)
M Steinberg LGPR – Under the Paper Moon Bishop & Gallagher #1)
F Terry LGPR – The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
F Thayer LGPR – Summer Light on Nantucket
MYSTERY
M Belle – The Expat Affair
M Berry – Murder Runs in the Family
M Brennan – Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
M Chao – The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club (Hu Done it Mystery #1)
M Chibnall – Death at the White Hart
M Crawford – A Cateried Bake-Off (Mystery with Recipes #19)
M Dodd – Thus with a Kiss I Die (Daughter of Montague #2)
M Dukess – Welcome to Murder Week
M Johnson – Return to Sender (Longmire #21)
M Estleman – Smoke on the Water (Amos Walker #32)
M King – Knave of Diamonds (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #19)
M Lewis – A Beacon in the Night
M Lippman – Murder Takes a Vacation (Mrs. Blossom Mysteries #1)-
M McCausland – The Last Illusion of Paige White
M Mack – Every Time I Go on Vacation
Someone Dies (Vacation Mysteries #1)
M Mack – No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (Vacation Mysteries #2)
M Marais – A Most Puzzling Murder
M Murphy – The House on Buzzards Bay
M Oates - Fox
M Sampson – The Busybody Book Club
M Seales – A Terribly Nasty Business (Beatrice Steele #2)
M Stabenow – Abduction of a Slave (Eye of Isis #4)
M Swanson – Kill Your Darlings
M Wurth – The Haunting of Room 904

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
SF Ashton – The Fourth Consort
F Cathrall – A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (Sunken Archive #2)
SF Greene - Unworld
F Kingfisher – Swordheart
F McBride – A Fate Forged in Fire (Bonded to Beasts #1)
F Penner – A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenshire #1)
F Schwab – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
F Woods – Upon a Starlit Tide

WESTERN
W Johnstone - Derringer

NONFICTION
006.3 MIL – Using Artificial Intelligence, Absolute Beginner’s Guide
248.4 MEY – The Courage to Change
302.231 SIM - Unplug
305.8009 KAD – The Great White Hoax
332.4 CLA – Bitcoin
332.4 SCO – Bitcoin Explained Like I’m 5
364.152 FRA – Murderland
583.96 LEG – Lavender for All Seasons
616.62 REA - Floored
616.852 LIS – Your Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery
616.852 LOC – Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
641.555 FRE – Snacking Dinners
641.5622 NAY – Dad, What’s for Dinner?
641.875 CAB – Mood Drinks$
650.142 TOO – Why You, Why Me, Why Now
690.89 DIE – Tree Houses within Reach
940.531 OLS – The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck
940.542 DUG – Taking Midway
940.544 AIK - Spitfires
973.934 TAP – Original Sin
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LARGE PRINT - NONFICTION

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BIOGRAPHY
B Arnaz – Desi Arnaz
B Davidovics – Beyond the Iron Curtain
B Hancock – John Hancock
B Hirsch – My Childhood in Pieces
B Hirsch – The Teacher of Auschwitz
B Jong – How to Lose Your Mother
B O’Meara – The Long Return
B Ramsey – Wildfire Days
B Starr - Belle
B Van Lew – Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster
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LARGE PRINT - BIOGRAPHY


AUDIOBOOKS

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DVD
DVD 5188 A – The Alto Knights
DVD 5189 B – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
DVD 5190 C  - Captain America: Brave New World
DVD 5191 F – Fog of War
DVD 5192 L – Looney Tunes:  The Day the Earth Blew Up
DVD 5193 P – Panda Bear in Africa
DVD 5194 Y TV – Yellowjackets, season 1
DVD 5195 Y TV – Yellowjackets, season 2
DVD 5196 Y TV – Yellowstone, season 5, part 2

CHILDREN’S DVD
DVD 5187 P CH – PBS Kids: Let’s Go on a Trip!

BLU-RAY
B-R 727 C – Captain America: Brave New World
B-R 728 L – Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up

CHILDREN'S BLU-RAY


EQUIPMENT


PUZZLES
PUZ 154 M – Mindfulness, one piece at a time (500 Piece jigsaw)

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:
Musings on Main Book Club

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.

NOTE: This program is on pause for July 2025 and will resume in August.
Monday Morning Mystery Book Club

Mystery Book Club

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

This month's topic: free choice
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2nd Mondays
10:00 AM
Program Room & Zoom
Maple Lawn Book Club

Maple Lawn Book Club

Join librarian Debra Blunier for this fun new book club at Maple Lawn that meets on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2:00 PM.
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3rd Mondays
​2:00 PM
@ Maple Lawn
Mystery Movie Matinee

Mystery Movie Matinee

Join us for this new program on the 4th Wednesday of each month! We’ll post clues online and in the library to help you puzzle out what movie we’ll be showing! Ages 18+.
​

4th Wednesdays
1:00 PM
Program Room
Fiber Arts Meet-Up

Fiber Arts Meet-Up

Join other fiber arts enthusiasts for inspiration and conversation during EPLD’s new Fiber Arts Meet-Up! All skill levels and fiber arts projects are welcome – knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery, cross stitch, felting, etc. Just bring yourself and whatever project you’re currently working on for this free drop-in program! Ages 18+.
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1st Mondays | 5:30 PM

4th Fridays | 3:00 PM
Program Room
Crafts to GO!

Crafts to GO!

Program in a Bag has been refreshed and rebranded to 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
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.
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1st Thursdays
​10:00 AM
@ AC Home of Eureka
​

NOTE: This program is currently on pause and will resume later in 2025.
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
@ Maple Lawn


NOTE: This program is currently on pause and will resume later in 2025.
Special Programs:
Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap

EPLD's monthly Recipe Swap is a fun and easy way to explore some new and different recipes sourced right from our community!

Registration starts on the 1st Friday of each month. Pick up day is the 3rd Friday of each month. (For July registration will begin one day early, due to the holiday!)

Simply submit your favorite dish that fits the theme during the registration week. Recipes will be printed out and distributed to all registered participants on pick up day!

This month's theme: Cookout Favorites
Share your favorite go-to recipes to bring to summer cookouts!

Registration: July 3 - 13
Pick up starts: July 18
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Google Form
Birthday BINGO

Birthday BINGO

Join us for a special birthday-themed BINGO at the library to celebrate EPLD's 95 years! Lots of awesome prizes to choose from! Ages 13+.
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Thursday, July 10
5:30 PM
Program Room
Color & Create

Color & Create

Patrons ages 18+ can stop by at their leisure to relax with coloring pages, puzzles, activity sheets, origami paper, craft supplies, and more!
​
​Saturday, July 12
All Day
Program Room
Master Gardeners present

Master Gardeners present: Gardening with Moths

National Moth Week is coming up July 19 - 27. Did you know that moths and other nighttime pollinators play a vital role in your garden's ecosystems? Most people think plants are pollinated during the day, but moths are a nighttime pollinator. A moth-friendly garden can be incredibly rewarding with fragrant evening blooms. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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Monday, July 14
6:00 PM
Program Room
Share Your Library Story

Share Your Library Story

Celebrate EPLD's 95th birthday by sharing your favorite library memories!
​
Thursday, July 17
11:00 AM
Program Room
95 Years of Service: Eureka Public Library

95 Years of Service: Eureka Public Library

Join Director Cindy O'Neill for a trip down memory lane. She'll review how the library got started, its opening on July 5, 1930, and the many changes the library has witnessed over its 95 years.
​
Tuesday, July 22
6:00 PM
Program Room

address

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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