VPL Newsletter

August 14th through August 19th 2023

This week we're excited to host a special Violin Storytime, featuring Mira Gibbons! Mira shares her love of music with children by visiting libraries and playing her violin. We are also wrapping up our World Photography Day Photo Contest. There's something for everyone at the Vinton Public Library!

World Photography Day Photo Contest

It's not to late to submit your photos for our 1st annual World Photography Day Photo Contest! Prizes will be awarded to the top adult and the top child entry. Submit your photos by Friday, August 18th; Happy Snapping!
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Free Children's Movie and Popcorn

Friday, Aug. 18th, 2pm

510 2nd Avenue

Vinton, IA

RSVPs are enabled for this event.

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Advance Planning Informational Session

Tuesday, Aug. 15th, 2pm

510 2nd Avenue

Vinton, IA

RSVPs are enabled for this event.

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Adventures in Bookclubbing: School Theme

Thursday, Aug. 17th, 12pm

510 2nd Avenue

Vinton, IA

RSVPs are enabled for this event.

Author Spotlight: Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, which was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and also picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and in the Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; four times been a Jeopardy! answer and once been a Word Search puzzle.


From: Biography / Curtis Sittenfeld

VPL Is selling a set of 4 used office chairs. Visit www.govdeals.com/vintonia to bid!
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New Books in our Collection

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Suset at the Cape, by RaeAnne Thayne

Finding Us, by Tracie Peterson

Out of Nowhere, by Sandra Brown

American Prometheus by Kai Bird

Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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Spotlight on Library Services: Books for Sale

Did you know you can purchase books from the Vinton Public Library? Check out our ever-changing collection just inside our North entrance. Books cost $0.25 for paperbacks, $0.50 for hardcover; you can also fill a bag for $1.00. Proceeds from the sales of these books go toward adding new titles to our collection.

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Library Hours of Operation

Mondays: 9a-5p

Tuesdays: 9a-6p

Wednesdays: 9a-5p

Thursdays: 9a-6p

Fridays: 9a-4p

Saturdays: 9a-Noon


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Fax services: $1.00 for 1-2 pages, $2.00 for 3+ pages

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