ADULTS
Materials for adults are located on the first floor of the library. Materials includes:
In addition, the first floor houses:
If you need help with locating something, just ask staff for assistance.
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JANUARY 2021
FICTION
F Andrews - The Pharaoh’s Daughter F Ashcroft - Meet Me in Bombay F Atkins - Robert B. Parker’s Someone To Watch Over Me F Benjamin - The Children’s Blizzard F Brown - Out of Hounds F Dalton - Waiting for the Night Song F Engberg - The Butterfly House F Foster - The Captive F Gardner - Before She Disappeared F Goldberg - Bone Canyon F Gray - A Perfect Amish Romance F Gray - Save the Last Dance F Green - Things We Didn’t Say F Grippando - Twenty F Grushin - The Charmed Wife F Hedlund - A Cowboy for Keeps F Johnson - Yellow Wife F Kellerman - The Lost Boys F Kelly - Frozen Crown F Kelly - The Last Garden in England F Kim - The Last Story of Mina Lee F Macallister - The Arctic Fury F McCall Smith - Pianos and Flowers F Medie - His Only Wife F O’Neal - When We Believed in Mermaids F Peterson - Endless Mercy F Pinter - A Stranger at the Door F Preston & Child - The Scorpion’s Tail F Ryan - Second Chance on Cypress Lane F Shalvis - The Forever Girl F Steel - Neighbors F Weiden - Winter Counts F Wiseman - The Orphan Collector LARGE PRINT – FICTION F Andrews LGPR - Isaiah’s Legacy F Andrews LGPR - Of Fire and Lions F Pears LGPR - The Horseman F Quinn LGPR - The Duke and I BOOKS ON CD CD B Alexander - With This Pledge CD B Baldacci - One Good Deed CD B Coble - Two Reasons to Run CD B Eakes - My Enemy, My Heart CD B Eakes - The Honorable Heir CD B Gray - Take the Lead CD B Harrison - The Big Seven CD B Kirk - Summer in Good Hope CD B Ladd - The Governess of Penwythe Hall CD B Ladd - The Thief of Lanwyn Manor CD B Martin - Long Way Gone CD B Martin - Maggie CD B Martin - The Mountain Between Us CD B Martin - Send Down the Rain CD B Martin - The Water Keeper CD B Patterson - Unsolved CD B Rosenberg - The Copper Scroll CD B Thoene - When Jesus Wept CD B Williams - The Golden Hour |
MYSTERY
M Crawford - A Catered Book Club Murder M Delany - A Curious Incident M Ellis - One for the Road M Fellowes - The Mitford Trial M Stabenow - Spoils of the Dead SCIENCE FICTION SF Best - The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 SF Herbert - Dune WESTERN W North - Outlawed W Wilcox - Dead Man’s Hand NONFICTION 179 SAS - Hello, Habits 261.8 FRA - Let Us Dream 284.4 BAT - Win the Day 303.49 ZAK - Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World 305.8 DYS - Long Time Coming 306.9 LED - The Beauty of What Remains 362.1068 MOE - Get What’s Yours for Health Care 363.25 COM - Saving Justice 364.1523 PAT - Till Murder Do Us Part 364.66 RYA - Until I Could Be Sure 613.7 ZAD - When Brains Dream 641.5 GAS - Simply Smoothies 641.5 HEL - Hope’s Table 746.432 GEL - Robin Octopus & Friends BIOGRAPHY B Burks - All the Young Men B Drummond - Frontier Follies B Hinojosa - Once I Was You DVD DVD 4363 B - A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas CHILDREN’S DVD DVD 4361 C CH - Curious George - Go West, Go Wild DVD 4362 L CH - Lego Jurassic World: Double Trouble BLU-RAY |
Magazines Are Available For A One-Week Check Out With No Renewals:
A-C
Allrecipes
American Patchwork and Quilting
Arthritis Today
Better Homes & Gardens
Birds & Blooms
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports on Health
Cook’s Country
Cook’s Illustrated
Country Living
Country Sampler
Country Woman
American Patchwork and Quilting
Arthritis Today
Better Homes & Gardens
Birds & Blooms
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports on Health
Cook’s Country
Cook’s Illustrated
Country Living
Country Sampler
Country Woman
D-H
Do It Yourself
Eating Well
Entertainment Weekly
Family Handyman
Family Tree
Farmhouse
Food Network
Fur-Fish-Game
Garden Gate
Good Housekeeping
Health
HGTV
Horticulture
House Beautiful
Illinois Heritage
Kiplinger's
Eating Well
Entertainment Weekly
Family Handyman
Family Tree
Farmhouse
Food Network
Fur-Fish-Game
Garden Gate
Good Housekeeping
Health
HGTV
Horticulture
House Beautiful
Illinois Heritage
Kiplinger's
M-P
Magnolia
Martha Stewart Living
Mary Jane’s Farm
Midwest Living
Mollie Makes
Mother Earth News
National Geographic
O: The Oprah Magazine
People
Peoria Magazine
Pioneer Woman
Prevention
Martha Stewart Living
Mary Jane’s Farm
Midwest Living
Mollie Makes
Mother Earth News
National Geographic
O: The Oprah Magazine
People
Peoria Magazine
Pioneer Woman
Prevention
Q-W
Quick & Easy Quilts (McCall’s)
Reader’s Digest
Reader’s Digest (large print edition)
Real Simple
Reveal
Runner’s World
Smithsonian
Southern Living
Sports Illustrated
Taste of Home
This Old House
Time
Travel & Leisure
Woman’s Day
Reader’s Digest
Reader’s Digest (large print edition)
Real Simple
Reveal
Runner’s World
Smithsonian
Southern Living
Sports Illustrated
Taste of Home
This Old House
Time
Travel & Leisure
Woman’s Day
Newspapers Available Online:
Bloomington Pantagraph (digital editions for 1857 - 2020 are available on public computers)
Peoria Journal Star (digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
Woodford County Journal (digital editions for 1896 - 2020 are available on public computers)
Peoria Journal Star (digital editions are available with a Eureka Library Card)
Woodford County Journal (digital editions for 1896 - 2020 are available on public computers)
We are currently not receiving print newspapers at the library.
Educational and social programs are held throughout the month.
Due to the pandemic, all of our programs are currently held virtually. Programs held on the Zoom platform will require registration, programs on Facebook will not. |
Click on the button below to see our current program calendar, including programs for all age groups.
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Regular Programs:
Hometown History: Notes on Eureka, Illinois blogLibrarian Cindy O'Neill loves researching local history! Read her Hometown History: Notes on Eureka, Illinois blog posts here. Program in a BagFebruary's Program in a Bag: Take and Make Yarn Flower Craft Until we can do in-person programs again, we have a new Program in a Bag for adults. Every month there will be a new themed bag with a craft, book list, and other activities! For February we have a Take and Make Yarn Flower Craft! Pick up starting Tuesday, February 16. *First-come, first-served. While supplies last.* |
Special Programs:
Cozy Up with a Good Book
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Previous virtual programs:
Virtual travelogues
We miss providing programs for all of you! To make up for it, we launched a Virtual Travelogue series of posts on Facebook and the library website through the summer! Our Virtual Travelogues toured our world's past and present - exploring all manner of cool things to be found on the internet!
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Suffrage Saturday Virtual Film Fest
In August, Eureka Public Library hosted its first Virtual Film Fest! Every week we posted a link to a film about the Women's Suffrage movement, as well as a short review by one of our staff members. The movies were all free to view with a Eureka Public Library card. We encouraged patrons to watch the film, read the review, and let us know their thoughts!
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The 19th amendment: 100 years of Women's suffrage
On the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment we held a special presentation by EPLD staff member Gennifer King. Watch the recording to learn about the history of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America and the women instrumental in the fight for winning the right to vote!
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Encore Presentations
How to Make a Photo Book
Watch this encore presentation of Librarian Debra Blunier's tutorial on how to make your very own keepsake photo book using popular online services! |
Pumpkins, Parades & Pies: Eureka's Pumpkin Festival Past
Take a step back in time and view a visual history of the Eureka Pumpkin Festival! The festival, which was held between 1939 and 1961, regularly averaged at least 50,000 attendees from all over Illinois and the Midwest. In 1947 film star and Eureka College alumnus Ronald Reagan and Illinois Governor Dwight Green attended, drawing national attention. |
Immigration Puzzles: Tips for Documenting Your Ancestor's Journey
If you missed out on Librarian Cindy O'Neill's genealogy presentation from last month, we will be posting the recording as an encore presentation! You may know where your ancestor immigrated from, but pinpointing exactly when and how can often be a challenge. The recording will go over a review of resources to check and a few case studies from Cindy's own family tree. |