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After missing out last year, area students will have a chance to hear from an author and illustrator next week. The Author Visit Program returns Monday and Tuesday, bringing author and illustrator Henry Cole back…
Who needs Fabio when you’ve got Fauci? Pandemic expert Dr. Anthony Fauci was the inspiration for the top-selling 1991 romance novel “Happy Endings,” according to the book’s author, Sally Quinn. Quinn reportedly told the Washingtonian…
Michael Graves wanted to honor a man he barely knew, so he made up a book about him. “To Leave a Shadow,” the winter book selection for Iola Reads, tells the story of private investigator…
Iola Public Library will host a book signing and author program for author Heidi Crane, a native of Iola, on Monday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. She is the author of a book for children, “Amazing…
The Iola Public Library starts off the new year with a handful of programs for adults. Those who play bridge usually consider it the greatest card game of all. This winter, anyone interested has the…
There are two things you soon realize upon meeting Calvin Coday. One, his faith and desire to help others was instilled in him at a young age, to the point he has traveled with wife…
Plucky children traveling on the Mississippi experiencing the tapestry of life as it existed then could this be Huckleberry Finn? No, its This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, but Twains classic is the…
Jennifer Nielsen, author of A Night Divided, a story of a girl and her family divided by construction of the Berlin Wall at the onset of the Cold War, will talk about her book Tuesday…
Iola native Heidi Starks Crane is the author of Amazing Grace, a heart-warming story of her experience of adopting a cat from an animal shelter. The cat, Gracie, comes into Cranes life just as she…
