Community Calendar

ISU will join us to present a special storytime featuring The Bad Seed! This program is best suited to toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Celebrate the LGBTQ+ community every month with our Read with Pride book club! We read fiction and nonfiction titles by queer authors and/or featuring queer characters.

We meet the third Tuesday of the month at the Fairmount Branch at 6:30pm. Books are available on a first come, first serve basis at Fairmount. This program is best suited to adults. Registration is required.

July 2026 - All Fours by Miranda July

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Note: Fairmount Street is temporarily closed at Hickory Grove Road due to construction. To access the Fairmount Branch, please approach from the south via Central Park Ave.

Brown Bag Book Club is a traditional, casual-atmosphere discussion group that takes place during a late-lunch hour. Books are recently published adult fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as the occasional classic or backlist novel. It meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 1:00 pm at the Eastern Branch. Books can be signed out from the Eastern Branch on a first-come, first-serve basis.

In July we will read: Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings (2024) — Lottery winner Opal Devlin buys a failing flower farm for isolation but finds the rightful owner, Pepper Smith, still living there, leading to a cohabitation agreement and a clash of personalities that turns into romance.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to reference@davenportlibrary.com.

Join our adult book club with a teen book twist. See why so many teen books are being turned into movies and are taking over the best seller lists.

Registration is not required. Books are available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Eastern Avenue library. We meet the first Wednesday of the month at Eastern at 6:30pm. This program is suitable for adults. Stop by the service desk for more information.

August 5 - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

'Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold—a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.

Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country’s magical military elite—and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift.

As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation.

Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems.' - publisher

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to reference@davenportlibrary.com

A book club for Littles (kids in 3rd-5th grade) and their Bigs (adults or older siblings) to read together. We will discuss the book and do some book-related crafts and activities. Registration is required. August's Book Club Selection is The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie. Copies of the book can be picked up at the service desk at the Eastern Branch or checked out from other libraries.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Romance readers! Join us for Book Lovers, a book club featuring a variety of romance novels! We'll discuss a new book each month, along with our favorite romance tropes and happily ever afters. A limited number of copies of the book will be available at the Eastern Branch on a first-come, first-served basis. This program is intended for adults.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to reference@davenportlibrary.com.