Reservation forms and details of our Annual Dinner on Thursday, April 11 at the Macomb Country Club, are available in our newsletter (click on the latest newsletter) and must be in by March 28. The evening starts with a social at 5 p.m., a short business meeting at 5:45 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. At 7p.m. WIU history professor, Tim Roberts, will be speaking on the underground railroad including its known operations in McDonough County.

Join us at the Library Annex and outdoor tent setting at 109 E. Jefferson St., for our largest Friends of the Library Books and Media Sale, 

Thursday, June 27 Members Only Preview Sale from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. You can join on site and get the membership perk of a dozen books at half price. Friday June 28, and Saturday June 29 public sales are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. under our large tent and in the Library Annex. Bag Sale will be active from 3 to 4 p.m. on Saturday June 29.

We have thousands of good conditioned books arranged in topical order: Fiction, Mysteries, Science Fiction/Fantasy, History/Biography, Religion/Philosophy, Non Fiction, Wellness, Cookbooks, Classics, Children, Youth, etc. under the large tent with oversized books in the Annex. Media includes a large assortment of CDs, LPs, DVDs, and audio books. Media is available in the Library Annex.

Kate Joswick, Friends of the Library volunteer, has been submitting local book reviews to our regional newspapers since 2007.  She has had just under 1,000 reviews published and is eager to break the 1,000 mark!  The current, weekly column, “What Are You Reading,” appears in the Tuesday issues of the Community News Brief.  It is very popular and fulfills one of our organizational goals…to promote reading.  Approximately 175 adults and children have shared their opinions about books they have read.

We encourage you to submit your brief review of a book you have read to joswickkate@gmail.com.    Most reviews are five or six sentences long, but longer reviews are accepted.  Include the author, title, your name, and occupation when you submit.   This opens a wide world of potential good reads for so many readers.

The Page Tuner Book Club will meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Macomb Public Library Meeting Room. The public is invited to attend. There will be some duplicate copies of the book selected each month in the library. The following books have been selected for the 2024 year.

Jan. 10 Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.

Feb. 14: West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge.

March 13: Horse by Geraldine Brooks.

April 10: What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha. (One Book One Community selection)

May 8: Day by Michael Cunningham.

June 12: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

July 10: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese.

Aug. 14: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of an American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell.

Sept. 11: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

Oct. 9: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel.

Nov. 13: The River We Remember by William Kent Kruger.

Dec. 11: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George.

Spring 2024 newsletter