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                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 14th, 2025 12:10 pm
                
                                      
                                    'Our Last Resort' by Clémence Michallon is the second suspenseful thriller I’ve read by this talented French author—and I’m hooked on her writing style!Frida and Gabriel, now adults, escaped th...                
 
               
                                          
                                
                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 12th, 2025 10:34 pm
                
                                      
                                    Review of "Dear Manny" by Nic Stone:Some time ago, I read a book titled 'Dear Martin,' by Nic Stone. I really liked it, although it wasn’t a pretty story with sunshine and rainbows. The storyline i...                
 
               
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                BENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - August 11th, 2025 1:12 pm
                
                                    You can make an online donation to support the Benton County Historical Society by clicking HERE or mail a donation to: Benton County Historical SocietyP.O. Box 22 Vinton, Iowa 52349Here's a story f...                
               
                                          
                                
                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 7th, 2025 11:59 am
                
                                      
                                    'Darling Girls' by Sally Hepworth is another great find among our library shelves.What a page turner this dark suspense novel is!! It is filled with mystery, thrilling psychological drama, and sprinkl...                
 
               
                                          
                                
                LAPORTE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 6th, 2025 11:47 am
                
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                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 6th, 2025 11:00 am
                
                                      
                                    If you’re in the mood for a wild, obsessive-compulsive, and delightfully disturbed female narrator, add Maud Ventura's debut novel 'My Husband' (translated from French by Emma Ramadan) to your ...                
 
               
                                          
                                
                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - August 1st, 2025 11:42 am
                
                                      
                                    This weekend I read 'The Homemade God,' the latest from the talented Rachel Joyce. We meet four adult siblings, shocked to learn their father plans to marry a woman he just met. Should they inter...                
 
               
                                          
                                
                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - July 30th, 2025 4:21 pm
                
                                      
                                    In the mood for a dark thriller?I highly recommend 'Fox' by Joyce Carol Oates. Francis Fox is a teacher at an elite boarding school who has somehow evaded justice—grooming young teen girls while sl...                
 
               
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                KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE - July 30th, 2025 10:27 am
                
                                    Kirkwood Community College and IowaWORKS will open a joint location this Friday, Aug. 1, located at 1025 Kirkwood Parkway SW in Cedar Rapids, on the college’s main campus. The new partners...                
               
                                          
                                
                VINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - July 29th, 2025 8:04 pm
                
                                      
                                    I love a dark comedy that makes me laugh hysterically in the wee hours of the morning and 'The Road to Tender Hearts' by Annie Hartnett absolutely delivered! PJ Halliday, a 60-something former lo...                
 
               
                            
              
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