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

MARCH 2026
FICTION
F Barelli – Finders Keepers
F Benedict – Daughter of Egypt
F Berg – Life: a Love Story
F Berry – The Devil’s Bible (Cotton Malone #20)
F Blakely – It Seemed Like a Good Idea
F Borison – And Now, Back to You
F Box – The Crossroads (Joe Pickett #26)
F Brown – Bloodlust
F Bruni – Mass Mothering
F Clare – Definitely Thriving
F Coble – When Justice Comes (Tupelo Grove #3)
F Connealy – Ambush of the Heart (Rocky Mountain Marshals #1)
F Coulter – The Heir of Whitestone
F Cowles – Across the Vanishing Sky (Starlight Grove #1)
F Davis – Judge Stone
F Dye – Walking Toward Freedom
F Erdrich – Python’s Kiss
F Goo – One & Only
F Harris – Where the Wildflowers Grow
F Hedlund – Marrying the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match #4)
F Huf - Inharmonious
F Jackson – Missing Sister
F Jimenez – The Night We Met (Say You’ll Remember Me #2)
F Kane – Such a Clever Girl
F Kellerman – Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
F Kennedy – Love Song
F Kingfisher – Wolf Worm
F Lane – The Best Little Motel in Texas
F Levi – Theo of Golden
F McGowan – The Other Couple
F Mallery – The Bookstore Diaries
F Mauer – A Good Animal
F Murphy – Ours is a Tale of Murder
F Nash – She Fell Away (Lake Harlowe #1)
F Nemens – Clutch
F Noble – The Sisters of Book Row
F Page – Six Little Words
F Paris – When I Kill You
F Pataki – It Girl
F Perry – The Tree of Light and Flowers (Jane Whitefield #10)
F Peterson – Faithful of Heart (A Minnesota Legacy #1)
F Reid – The Survivor
F Sabit – Good People
F Scobie – Royal Spin
F Score – Mistakes Were Made (Story Lake Book #2)
F Shalvis – Free Falling (Colburn Brothers #2)
F Shorr - Fatherland
F Smith – A Deeper Well
F Stedman -A Far-Flung Life
F Steel – Felicia’s Favorites
F Sundin – Mists Over the Channel Islands
F Unger – Served Him Right
F Witemeyer – Taming Lady Temperance (Secret Society of Spinsters #1)
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​LARGE PRINT – FICTION
F Bell LGPR – The White Octopus Hotel
F Carlson LGPR – The Royal Nanny
W Cord LGPR – Red River Sheriff
M Delaney LGPR – The Devil in the Details (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #11)
M Eason LGPR - Whiteout
F Hart LGPR – Avenue of Betrayal (Spies of the Civil War #1)
F Johnson LGPR– Keeper of Lost Children
W Johnstone LGPR – The Best of Enemies (Trace and Chaw Western #1)
F Linden LGPR – The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
M Rose LGPR – Knife in the Back (New Orleans #4)
F Woodley LGPR – The Bandit’s Redemption (Outlaw Hearts #1)
MYSTERY
M Armstrong – First Sign of Danger (Haven’s Rock #4)
M Breedlove – Murder Will Out
M Childs – Death at a Firefly Tea (Tea Shop Mystery #30)
M Craig – I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
M Eason – Whiteout (2 novellas)
M French – What Happened That Night (O’Connor #3)
M Huang – A Pretender’s Murder (#2)
M McKinlay – Booking for Trouble (Library Lover’s #16)
M Meier – Easter Egg Murder
M Murphy – The Ghost Woman
M Phillips – Ruby Falls
M Stabenow – The Harvey Girl (Aries #1)
M Stevenson – Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4)
M Sullivan – The Politician (DS George Cross #4)
M Thielman – The Hidden River (Johnson & Nancy Mystery #2)
M Todd – A Day of Judgement (Inspector Ian Rutledge #25)
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SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
SF Ashton – After the Fall
SF Bunn – Treaty
F Fawcett – Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
SF Henry – The People’s Library
F Jewell – Books & Bewitchment
SF Kirkbride – The Forest on the Edge of Time
SF Sui – The Iron Garden Sutra
F Walker - Blade
F Ward – Crown of War & Shadow (#1)
F Wilson – The Trident and the Pearl (The Fisher King #1)

WESTERN
W Johnstone – Murphy’s Law (Murphy’s Law #1)

NONFICTION
248.4 KIR – Stop in the Name of God
320.538 KEN – Chain of Ideas
323.6 HER – Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
362.292 DAY – Growing Up With Addition
378.161 CON – The People’s Guide to College Applications
613.0424 WOM – Women’s Health: All-in-One for Dummies
618.14 ORB – Beating Endo
618.178 HUH – Stronger Than Infertility
641.5941 COM – The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook
794.809 MAC – Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
812.52 MIL – The Crucible
917.3 ROU – Route 66: a Tribute to an American Icon
917.304 SCO – The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges
940.544 THO – Forgotten Souls; the search for the lost Tuskegee airmen
956.7044 MOR – Doom 34
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LARGE PRINT - NONFICTION
940.5486 HEN LGPR – Midnight Flyboys
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BIOGRAPHY
B Aikens – North of Ordinary
B Blume – Judy Blume
B Hartigan - Lost
B Nolan – Good Woman
B William – William and Catherine
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LARGE PRINT - BIOGRAPHY


AUDIOBOOKS

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DVD
DVD 5281 C – Christopher Robin
DVD 5282 M – Miracle
DVD 5287 A TV – All Creatures Great & Small, season 6
DVD 5288 P HM – Providence Falls 3-part Special Event (Hallmark)
DVD 5290 Z – Zootopia 2
DVD 5291 R – Regretting You
DVD 5292 N – The Neverending Story / The Neverending Story II
DVD 5293 F – 5-Star Collection
DVD 5294 F – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
DVD 5295 L – Leatherheads
DVD 5296 O – October Sky
DVD 5297 M TV – Murder Before Evensong
DVD 5298 S TV – Star Trek: strange new worlds, season 3
DVD 5299 T TV – Talamasca: the secret order
DVD 5300 H – Hamnet
DVD 5301 A - Anaconda
DVD 5302 D - David
DVD 5303 H – The Housemaid
DVD 5304 I – Is This Thing On?

CHILDREN’S DVD
DVD 5271 L CH – The Land Before Time #1
DVD 5272 L CH – The Land Before Time #2 & #3: The Great Valley Adventure/ The Time of Great Giving
DVD 5273 L CH – The Land Before Time #4 & #5: Journey Through the Mists / The Mysterious Island
DVD 5274 L CH – The Land Before Time #6 & #7: The Secret of Saurus Rock/ The Stone of Cold Fire
DVD 5275 L CH – The Land Before Time #8 & #9:  The Big Freeze / Journey to Big Water
DVD 5276 L CH – The Land Before Time #10 & #11: The Great Longneck Migration / Invasion of the Tinysauruses
DVD 5277 L CH – The Land Before Time #12 & #13: The Great Day of the Flyers/ The Wisdom of Friends
DVD 5278 L CH – The Land Before Time #14: Journey of the Brave
DVD 5283 B CH – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
DVD 5284 A CH – The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
DVD 5285 A CH – Alvin and the Chipmunks: Halloween Collection
DVD 5286 D CH – Dinosaur Train: T. Rex Tales
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BLU-RAY
B-R 739 M – Miracle at St. Anna
B-R 740 E – Ella McCay
B-R 741 C – Christopher Robin
B-R 742 M – Miracle

CHILDREN'S BLU-RAY
B-R 743 B CH – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
B-R 744 A CH – The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

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

Book Club

Book Club meets 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

Mystery Book Club

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

This month's topic: books with the word or variation of the word "die" in the title
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2nd Mondays
10:00 AM
Program Room & Zoom
Wits Fitness

U of I Extension
Wits Fitness

Ready to give your brain a workout? Join U of I Educator Sara Attig as she leads participants through interactive activities designed to exercise the brain to maintain and enhance cognitive function and memory.
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2nd Wednesdays
​1:00 PM
Program Room
Share Your Story

Maple Lawn Book Club

Join librarian Debra Blunier for this fun book club at Maple Lawn that meets on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2:00 PM.
​
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
@ Maple Lawn
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:
The Moody Family of Eureka

The Moody Family of Eureka

The Woodford County Historical and Genealogical Society and the Eureka Public Library are excited to co-sponsor an historical presentation on the Moody Family of Eureka. The Robert Moody family lived in Eureka from 1883 to 1915. Their story stretches from pre-Civil War, slave-holding Tennessee to Eureka with many stops in-between. In 1978 the City renamed the street at the south end of Olio Township Cemetery in honor of the family. Come hear the amazing story of Robert Moody Sr and his family. A brief society meeting will also be held. The program is free and open to the public. No registration required.

Thursday, April 9
7:00 PM
@ Becker Auditorium, Cerf Center, Eureka College
Master Gardeners present

Starting Annuals from Seed for Cut Flowers

Learn the essentials of starting popular annual cut flowers—like zinnias, cosmos, and sunflowers—from seed. We’ll cover supplies, sowing techniques, and tips for growing strong seedlings ready for beautiful summer bouquets. Perfect for beginners and flower‑garden enthusiasts! REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

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

Monday, April 13
6:00 PM
Program Room
Illinois Libraries Present

Illinois Libraries Present
Cristina Henríquez: Voice, Culture, and Human Connection

Join critically acclaimed, bestselling author, Cristina Henríquez, for a compelling conversation about her work. Henríquez’s newest book, The Great Divide, is a moving exploration of the people who lived, loved, and labored during the construction of the Panama Canal. Named a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice selection and TIME Magazine “100 Must-Read Books of 2024,” The Great Divide explores history and adversity in a place very special to her – her father’s homeland of Panama. ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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Thursday, April 16
7:00 PM
Zoom


Register: https://bit.ly/ILPCristinaHenríquez
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Registration for this event closes at 5:00 p.m. on event day. Late registrations will be processed after the live event, allowing access to the event recording.
Medicare 101

Medicare 101

Learn the basics of Medicare Parts A-D. Medicare Supplements will be covered as well, including recent updates. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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​Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.

Saturday, April 18
9:30 AM
Program Room
AARP Smart Driver

AARP Smart Driver

This class focuses on refreshing participants' knowledge of local driving laws, and regulations; introduces new laws, driving concepts, and changes in automobiles, roadways, and traffic over the past decade. The class includes information on the effect of medications, drugs, and alcohol on the ability to drive safely. The class is designed for drivers aged 50+, and also provides exercise recommendations for remaining agile, mobile, and strong enough to properly drive a vehicle safely.

Participants who complete the two-day course may be entitled to a discount on their auto liability insurance, the amount of which varies with the insurer, location, vehicle, and driving record. This discount runs for 3 years, after which the participant must retake the class to renew their discount. REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Cost: $20/AARP members, $25/non-members.

​​Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.

Wednesday, April 22 & Thursday, April 23
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Program Room
Spring Book Bling

Spring Book Bling

Join us for a fun morning of diamond painting your favorite book cover! Diamonds, tools, & glue provided, just BYO book or grab one from the Book Sale Room. Books with simple graphics or elements to highlight work best. Ages 12+. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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​Sign up at the adult circulation desk or by calling the library at 309.467.2922 extension 1.
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Saturday, April 25
9:30 - 11:30 AM
Program Room
Duo Puzzle Challenge

Duo Puzzle Challenge

Teams of 2 will receive the same 500-piece puzzle and will have up to 2 hours to complete it. The first team to complete their puzzle or the team furthest along will win a prize! Ages 12+. REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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Sign up at the adult circulation desk.

Thursday, April 30
5:30 - 7:30 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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  • About
    • About EPLD
    • Contact Us
    • Library Board
    • Library Policies
    • Staff & Employment
    • Friends of the Library
    • Donations
    • Library Newsletter
    • Fine Free
  • At The Library
    • Program Calendar
    • Illinois Libraries Present
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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