• The library will be closed December 23 - 25 and December 30 - January 1 for the holidays. Happy Holidays from all of us at the library!

• Story time meets weekly on Wednesdays from 10-10:30 a.m. 

• Toddler time is held weekly on Fridays from 10-10:30 a.m.

New adult fiction: “The Fall of Babel” by Josiah Bancroft; “A Season on the Wind” by Suzanne Woods Fisher; “Never” by Ken Follett; “The Butterfly Effect” by Rachel Mans McKenny; “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Piccoult.

New adult non-fiction: “Holy Hot Mess” by Mary Katherine Backstrom; “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brene Brown.

New young adult fiction: “So This is Christmas” by Tracy Andreen; “Legion” by Julie Kagawa; “In the Hall with the Knife” by Diana Peterfreund.

New young adult non-fiction: “Tiny Dancer” by Siena Cherson Siegel.

New junior fiction: “Out of My Heart” by Sharon M. Draper; “I Broke into Gymnastics Camp” by Jessica Gunderson; “Saving the Sun Dragon” by Tracey West.

New junior non-fiction: “A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation” by Barry Wittenstein.

New board books: “It’s Christmas and You Know It” by Hannah Eliot; “Happy Hanukkah, Curious George” by Emily Flaschner; “Fa La La” by Leslie Patricelli; “Paw Patrol: Jingle Pups”; “Paw Patrol: Let’s Be Thankful”.

Check us out on our website at www.kalona.lib.ia.us or our Facebook page — Kalona Public Library. You can also download books and magazines from a computer, tablet or smartphone using your library card number.