Library News

December 4, 2025

FDL Reads: Two Tribes

Alice reviews children's graphic novel about a young Jewish–Muscogee girl who struggles to reconcile her dual heritage and identity.

Upcoming Events

This event is in the "Children" group
This event is in the "Preschoolers" group
This event is in the "School-aged Children" group

Paws to Read Session 2

10:30am–11:00am
Children, Preschoolers, School-aged Children
Registration Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Story & Craft Room
Age Group: Children, Preschoolers, School-aged Children
Program Type: Special Events, Storytimes
Registration Required
Event Details:

Come join us as the Peoria Humane Society stops by the library with some furry friends! They will be bringing therapy dogs for kids to read with between 10:00am and 11:00am.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. 

Animals Present

Animals will be present at this program. The library intends to keep this event as safe as possible. Please be mindful of your needs as the library can offer no guarantees concerning animal behavior and potential allergens.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Adult Book Club

1:30pm–2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Kolb Memorial Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book & Author Events
Event Details:

Fondulac District Library’s Adult Book Club meets at 1:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month in the library’s meeting room. The club is open to all area adults who are interested in reading fiction and non-fiction of all types.

This event is in the "Children" group
This event is in the "School-aged Children" group

Elf School

6:00pm–7:30pm
Children, School-aged Children
Waitlist
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Story & Craft Room
Age Group: Children, School-aged Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Special Events
Registration Required
Event Details:

Are you between the ages of 8-11? Do you have what it takes to be one of Santa's helpers? School as never been so much fun singing and dance, making crafts, playing games and of course snacks. Come as yourself and leave as an elf.

Disclaimer(s)

Open Food Present as Part of Program

Patrons will be handling open food as part of this program. The library intends to keep this event as safe as possible but cannot guarantee that food handled at this program has no allergens and has not come into contact with allergens. Please contact the library with any questions concerning potential allergens.

This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Sit & Stitch: Evening Edition

6:00pm–7:30pm
Teens, Adults
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Kolb Memorial Conference Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Sit & Stitch…at NIGHT!  One Monday night each month, share ideas and skills while making new friends.  Bring your own counted cross stitch, quilting, applique, knitting or crochet projects and supplies.  This is n

This event is in the "Adults" group

Copy of Appy Hour

2:00pm–3:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Adult Services Department
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology, Computers, & Science
Event Details:

Come explore your digital library! Stop by to get help accessing digital content on your device through our library apps or searching our catalog.  Meet with a librarian for one-on-one tech help.

This event is in the "Teens" group
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: OTHER- Please see event description.
Age Group: Teens
Event Details:

Got any mugs that aren't getting used? Trade them with fellow teens to get mugs that are new and exciting, right in time for hot-cocoa season! 

FDL Features

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Between a Flock and a Hard Place

Readers will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

Meg's neighbors, the Smetkamps', have won a makeover for their old home from Marvelous Mansions, a flashy, yet dubious company, focused on making historic homes more "modern." The company already several days into its makeover of the Smetkamps' house, and tensions are running high--not only between the officious, demanding Mrs. Smetkamp and her neighbors, but also between her and the renovation crew. Meg, who is trying to keep the peace and prevent the makeover crew from trampling on every clause of the county's building code, arrives at the Smetkamps to find that Caerphilly's resident flock of feral turkeys has moved into their yard--or been relocated there by someone who wanted to cause them trouble. 

The turkeys are huge, territorial, cranky and aggressive - and impossible to move! Meg does what she can to calm down the irate neighbors and help the makeover crew make progress in spite of the turkeys. She comes up with a plan to gather a group of turkey wranglers to snatch them early in the morning. But when they arrive, they find the body of Mrs. Smetkamp in her backyard. Someone stabbed her, and then tried to make it look as if she was attacked by one of the turkeys, but Meg, the Chief, and the Sheriff are not fooled. Together, they must figure out what really happened to Mrs. Smetkamp...and what to do with all these turkeys!

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This Land Is Their Land

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.

In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end.

400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. 

This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

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The Ballad of Black Tom

One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?

"LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do." 
— Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction."
— Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days

“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon... [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction

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