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April 23, 2025

FDL Reads: What Feasts at Night

​Julie reviews a horror novel about a retired soldier who returns to family hunting lodge, only to confront a malevolent entity waiting there.
April 2, 2025

IMLS Funding & FDL

While the library primarily relies on local tax dollars, it also benefits from state and federally-funded programs, like interlibrary loan delivery. Changes to federal IMLS funding and the potential elimination of the agency could impact provision of this or other library services.
March 28, 2025

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We're looking for enthusiastic, customer service-focused people interested in part-time work in a community-focused environment.

Upcoming Events

This event is in the "Teens" group.
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Odds & Ends Jewelry Making: European Style Beads

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Teens, Adults
Registration Full
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Story & Craft Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

New to the inventory are large hole, European style beads.  There will also be compatible bracelet chains and keychains to use with the large format beads. As always, you can work on the project of your choice.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

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.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Floral Mod Podge Pots

5:00pm - 7:00pm
Teens, Adults
Registration Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Story & Craft Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Make these fun floral DIY mod podge terra cotta pots to add to your spring décor or to make as a perfect mother’s day gift.

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

Glowforge Succulent Magnets (Rescheduled)

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Teens, Adults
Registration Full
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Story & Craft Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Technology, Computers, & Science
Registration Required
Event Details:

Create succulents that you can enjoy forever. Each participant will receive three magnets that we will color with Sharpies. Magnet backs will be provided. 

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

Sit & Stitch (1st Sundays)

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Teens, Adults
Library Branch: Fondulac District Library
Room: Kolb Memorial Conference Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Sit & Stitch with others at the library.  Share ideas and skills while making new friends.  Bring your own counted cross stitch, quilting, applique, knitting or crochet projects and supplies.  This is not an instr

Dystopian Fiction

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Ready Player One

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.

When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. 

Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly San Francisco Chronicle Village Voice Chicago Sun-Times iO9 The AV Club

“Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”HuffPost

“An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN

“A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”Boston Globe

“Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR

“[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”iO9

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Divergent

Paperback features over fifty pages of bonus materials, including a sneak peek of Insurgent, an author Q&A, a discussion guide, a Divergent playlist, faction manifestos, and more!

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Veronica Roth is the New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, the first in a trilogy of dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

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