• Kenji López-Alt: A Journey Through Food and Science

    Online IL, United States

    Join award-winning cookbook author, New York Times food columnist, and Serious Eats director J. Kenji López-Alt for an evening of cooking insights, techniques, and foodie exploration. As the Culinary Director for Serious Eats, Kenji is known and loved for his thoroughly-tested and explained recipes and food features. His James Beard Award-winning cookbook, The Food Lab, […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are having a year-end party with goodies and refreshments, along with an open discussion about any book you'd like to bring to talk about! A lucky winner for a year-end prize bag will be chosen from the members who have attended […]

  • Bringing History to Life with Jonathan Eig

    Online IL, United States

    NOTE: This is a live, online event. A recording will be made available for those who register but cannot attend the event live. Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books, including his most recent, Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Life. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, it is the first major biography in decades of […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. If you are interested in joining us by becoming a Book Club member, please fill out our member form, especially if you would like for us to place a hold on the […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are reading The Ghost by Robert Harris, which inspired the movie . If you are interested in joining us by becoming a Book Club member, please fill out our member form, especially if you would like for us to place a […]

  • Still Afraid of the Dark: An Evening with R.L. Stine

    Online IL, United States

    NOTE: This is a live, online event. A recording will be made available for those who register but cannot attend the event live. Witty, creepy, and compulsively readable, bestselling author R.L. Stine defined horror for a generation of young readers. The generation that grew up with the Goosebumps franchise may be grown, but Stine keeps […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. If you are interested in joining us by becoming a Book Club member, please fill out our member form, especially if you would like for us to place a hold on the book […]

  • Beyond the Page with Percival Everett

    Online IL, United States

    NOTE: This is a live, online event. A recording will be made available for those who register but cannot attend the event live. Industrious, irreverent, humble–though he may deny the accusation–Percival Everett, like his fiction, defies categorization. His most recent novel, James, earned both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award, and […]

  • Cristina Henríquez: Voice, Culture, and Human Connection

    Online IL, United States

    NOTE: This is a live, online event. A recording will be made available for those who register but cannot attend the event live. Join critically acclaimed, bestselling author, Cristina Henríquez, for a compelling conversation about her work. Henríquez’s newest book, The Great Divide, is a moving exploration of the people who lived, loved, and labored […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are reading The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien. If you are interested in joining us by becoming a Book Club member, please fill out our member form, especially if you would like for us to place a […]

  • Book Club

    Centralia Regional Library District 515 East Broadway, Centralia, IL, United States

    Join the Centralia Regional Library District's Book Club for adults! For this meeting, we are reading The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. If you are interested in joining us by becoming a Book Club member, please fill out our member form, especially if you would like for us to place a hold on the […]

  • Babel-On with R.F. Kuang

    Online IL, United States

    NOTE: This is a live, online event. A recording will be made available for those who register but cannot attend the event live. NOTE 2: This event was rescheduled to Wednesday, May 20, from its original date of Tuesday, May 19. R.F. Kuang’s genre-bending fiction broaches ordinarily serious topics from a satirical and fantastical perspective. […]