FREE COMIC BOOK DAY IS COMING SATURDAY MAY 6, 2023!
Celebrate your love of comics and graphic novels at the Moline Public Library! This program is meant for all ages and no sign up is required.
Comic related games, trivia and crafts!
Costumes are welcome! Fun picture opportunities!
Don’t forget to pick up a free comic or two! Titles available for all ages!
Enjoy comic themed art made by members of the community!
Want to contribute some art of your own?
Participate in the Comic Celebration Art Contest!
We are celebrating our favorite comics and graphic novels from all over the multiverse! Show us your favorite characters, scenes or universes, or make something entirely new!
Art will be displayed at the Moline Public Library from April 30 through May 6, Free Comic Book Day, for the public to see and vote on!
Open to All Ages! Art will be judged within the following categories:
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 & Adults 18+
Submissions accepted from April 1st – 29th
All art may be dropped off at the Children’s Desk.
Gold/Silver Room, Wednesday, December 14, 2022 & Thursday, December 15, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Surrounded by holiday hustle and bustle or sneaky gift seekers? Grab your gifts and get out of the house to join us for a drop-in holiday gift wrap party on Wednesday or Thursday night, free from prying eyes!
We’ll be playing holiday music, brewing hot drinks and have some sweet treats for snacking. Wrapping paper, bows, ribbons, etc. provided. And if you aren’t able to give someone special a gift, we’ll have free books to choose from to be your gift for the holidays. Bring your friends and have a happy holiday wrapping party with us!
Gold/Silver Room, Wednesday, November 30, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Join us in the at the Moline Public Library to create your own beautiful ugly holiday sweater! All the bits and bobbles provided! Bring your own shirt or choose from an assortment of reclaimed shirts in various sizes and colors. Provided shirts are limited.
Holiday season is upon us once again. This is a wonderful time of year when people celebrate and gather together with loved ones – and when they are not actually celebrating they spend a lot of their time thinking about and planning it. Or traveling to get to it. Oh, and the shopping. … Where was I going with this?
Oh, yes. It is a great time of year, it gives us a reason to focus on something other than how frigid and bleak the weather has become, but it can also be a crazy time for people trying to fit everything into their schedule. In acknowledgement of this fact we wanted to give you plenty of advanced notice about the library’s closing schedule for the holidays this year.
The Moline Public Library will be closed on:
November 24, 2022 (Thursday): Thanksgiving Day
November 25, 2022 (Friday): Thanksgiving (Day After)
December 24, 2022 (Saturday): Christmas Eve Day
December 25, 2022 (Sunday): Christmas Day
December 26, 2022 (Monday): Day After Christmas
December 31, 2022 (Saturday): New Year’s Eve
January 1, 2023 (Sunday): New Year’s Day
January 2, 2023 (Monday): Day After New Year’s Day
Library Meeting Rooms, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the LeClaire Hotel, Moline Preservation Society President, Brandon Tidwell, will share a historical overview of the hotel’s history.
The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In honor of the city’s 150th anniversary, Jeff Adamson, of G.i.T. Improv, will presentonMoline’s parks, amusements, schools, movie houses, factories and more that are no longer with us. Pictures and tales of your childhood growing up in Moline.
Two presentation times, Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon, mean more chances to attend!
Silver/Bronze Rooms, Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 6:00pm
In honor of the City of Moline’s Sesquicentennial, Brandon Tidwell, Moline Preservation Society Board member, will present Molette: The American Dream Realized in Moline: Celebrating 75 years of Affordable Housing.
Celebrating our favorite comics and graphic novels from all over the multiverse! Show us your favorite characters, scenes or universes, or make something entirely new! Art will be displayed at the Moline Public Library for the public to see and vote on!
Open to All Ages! Art will be judged within the following categories:
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 & Adults 18+
Submissions accepted from April 1st – 30th
Art may be dropped off at the Children’s Desk with an official entry form or emailed to bhager@molinelibrary.org
Learn about the ancient Ukrainian art of pysanky, batik on eggshell, in this demonstration by artist Crystal Potthoff. The process uses real eggs (all blown out) and layers of wax and dye.
The Moline Public Library will be closed Friday, December 31 and Saturday, January 1 for the New Year holiday. I know, that’s a bummer, but there are things to look forward to after the New Year.
The Library will be open again soon – and starting January 9 we will back to full hours, with the Library open until 8pm Monday through Thursday! Plus Sundays! We will be open from 1pm to 4pm on Sundays.
While we are on the subject of things to look forward to, here is a quick list of book adaptations hitting the big screen this January.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Movie:The Tragedy of Macbeth Release Date: January 14 What the book is about: One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder. This shocking tragedy – a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake – is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer Movie:The Tender Bar Release Date: January 17 What the book is about: J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.’s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.
The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre Movie:The King’s Daughter Release Date: January 21 What the book is about: In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even the sacred bond between brother and sister. By the fiftieth year of his reign, Louis XIV has made France the most powerful state in the western world. Yet the Sun King’s appetite for glory knows no bounds. In a bold stroke, he sends his natural philosopher on an expedition to seek the source of immortality — the rare, perhaps mythical, sea monsters. For the glory, of his God, his country, and his king, Father Yves de la Croix returns with his treasures: one heavy shroud packed in ice…and a covered basin that imprisons a shrieking creature.
Munich by Robert Harris Movie:Munich – The Edge of War Release Date: January 21 What the book is about: Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office–and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Guy flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Rikard travels on Hitler’s train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance–here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier–at the heart of an electrifying, un-put-downable novel.
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Movie:The Tiger Rising Release Date: January 21 What the book is about: Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartaches, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever.
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers Movie:Redeeming Love Release Date: January 22 What the book is about: California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw.
Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts Movie:Brazen Release Date: January 22 What the book is about: Grace McCabe was shocked to find her sister Kathleen living in a grungy D.C. suburb, supplementing her income as a phone sex operator after a bitter divorce. But with the company Fantasy, Inc. guaranteeing its employees complete anonymity, how dangerous could it really be? Grace was soon to learn the answer when she returned home one night to a horrifying scene that might have come from one of her own novels. Ignoring the warnings of cool-headed detective Ed Jackson, Grace sets her own daring trap to rouse a killer out of hiding. But what can protect her from a brilliant madman whose lust for murder stops at nothing…and no one?
The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur Movie:Birds Like Us Release Date: January 25 What the book is about: Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism – an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God – it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.
Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom Movie:Compartment No. 6 Release Date: January 26 What the book is about: In the waning years of the Soviet Union, a sad young Finnish woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she’s trying to put as much space as possible between her and a broken relationship. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment–No. 6.–but her solitude is soon shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, a grizzled, opinionated, foul-mouthed former soldier. There is a hint of menace in the air, but initially the woman is not so much scared of or shocked by him as she is repulsed. But though Vadim may be crude, he isn’t cruel, and he shares with her the sausage and black bread and tea he’s brought for the journey, coaxing the girl out of her silent gloom. As their train cuts slowly across thousands of miles of a wintry Russia, a grudging kind of companionship grows between the two inhabitants of compartment No. 6. When they finally arrive in Ulan Bator, a series of starlit and sinister encounters bring Rosa Liksom’s incantatory Compartment No. 6 to its powerful conclusion.
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