Events Calendar
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Evening Antrim Writer’s Series: Mary Kay Zuravleff Author Visit
Award-winning author Mary Kay Zuravleff has published four novels. Her most recent, American Ending, was an Oprah Spring Book pick and a finalist for the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. That book was inspired by both sets of her grandparents, Russian Orthodox Old Believers who lived in an Appalachian coal-mining town, and especially by her paternal grandmother, who was born in America and lost her citizenship for marrying her Russian-born spouse. She taught graduate students at numerous universities and has had the pleasure of teaching fiction workshops at Chautauqua, Key West, and Interlochen.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Antrim Writer’s Series: Writing Workshop
Register here to attend fiction writing class with Mary Kay Zuravleff.
Award-winning author Mary Kay Zuravleff has published four novels. Her most recent, American Ending, was an Oprah Spring Book pick and a finalist for the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. That book was inspired by both sets of her grandparents, Russian Orthodox Old Believers who lived in an Appalachian coal-mining town, and especially by her paternal grandmother, who was born in America and lost her citizenship for marrying her Russian-born spouse. She taught graduate students at numerous universities and has had the pleasure of teaching fiction workshops at Chautauqua, Key West, and Interlochen.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Foodie Cookbook Clu
Monthly Book Club for Cooking fans. Stop by the library to choose your recipe.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: "The Warsaw Orphan” by Kelly Rimmer
In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality--and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism.
Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls, and to the plight of the Gorka family, who must make the impossible decision to give up their newborn daughter or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. But his recklessness brings unwanted attention to Sara's cause, unwittingly putting Elzbieta and her family in harm's way until one violent act threatens to destroy their chance at freedom forever.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Books on Tap @ The Foundry
Join us at a different venue each month as we explore popular spirited books
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting
Meetings are held at 5:00 p.m. at the Government Center, 315 Bridge Street, Elk Rapids, MI 49629. We welcome the public to attend.
A meeting agenda will be posted on the Board of Trustees page once it's available.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
Island House Readers Book Club: "1776” by David McCullough
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.
Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting
Meetings are held at 5:00 p.m. at the Government Center, 315 Bridge Street, Elk Rapids, MI 49629. We welcome the public to attend.
A meeting agenda will be posted on the Board of Trustees page once it's available.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: "I Must Betray You” by Ruta Sepetys
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.
Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.
Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Ice Cream, a Mermaid and Walking Stick Crafts
Harbor Days on the Island House Hill is back with fun for the whole family! Stop by and see us between 1:00 and 3:00
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Glamour Glitter and Glitz Sale
Free admission to our regular jewelry sale. We’ve been collection beautiful pieces for over a year! You don’t want to miss this sale!
Proceeds will be used to support the library's outreach initiatives, to get books and resources to people who are unable to get to the library
Glamour Glitter and Glitz Friday night Presale and reception
Join us for an elegant night for a first chance to purchase jewelry at the Friends of the Elk Rapids Library fundraiser. Get your early bird admission to this exclusive event by following the link below. Ticket includes a fun night including one complimentary beverage, hors d’oeuvres, early shopping, and silent auction. You don't want to miss this event!
Regular sale will happen on Saturday, July 27th.
Proceeds will be used to support the library's outreach initiatives, to get books and resources to people who are unable to get to the library
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Bikes, Bubble and Books
Join us for a weekly bike ride at the Norte Chain Hub near the Chamber of Commerce building
Wednesdays on River Street
Join us on River Street every Wednesday. Visit our table to see the new library plans, make a craft and learn how to become of Friends of the Library member.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Friends of the Library Meeting
Join us for a monthly meeting of the Friends of the Elk Rapids District Library.
Learn about the ways we support the library and how you can plug in too.
Family Lawn Games @ the Library
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us for music and lawn games with the whole family!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Bikes, Bubble and Books
Join us for a weekly bike ride at the Norte Chain Hub near the Chamber of Commerce building
Wednesdays on River Street
Join us on River Street every Wednesday. Visit our table to see the new library plans, make a craft and learn how to become of Friends of the Library member.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Family Lawn Games @ the Library
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us for music and lawn games with the whole family!
Books on Tap @ The Dam Shop
From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.
These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.