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SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-03-13/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260317T170000
DTSTAMP:20260307T170352Z
CREATED:20260307T170352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T170352Z
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SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Every month we’ll read a book that has been banned or challenged. We’ve picked the first few reads\, but we want your suggestions for what we read going forward! \nBanned Book Club will meet the third Tuesday of each month. \nOur pick for March is The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley. \nBook Summary: \nIt’s 1993\, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin\, she wonders if she’ll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike\, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all\, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all\, live..
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260221T175016Z
CREATED:20260221T175015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260221T175016Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur March selection is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. \nBook Summary: \n\n\n\n\n\nPiranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite\, its corridors endless\, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues\, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases\, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. \nThere is one other person in the house—a man called The Other\, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores\, evidence emerges of another person\, and a terrible truth begins to unravel\, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-10/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260326T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260326T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-03-26/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T180000
DTSTAMP:20260320T183402Z
CREATED:20250830T160101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T183402Z
UID:10001467-1775581200-1775584800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Tales Retold Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month\, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. \nOur April pick is a Romeo and Juliet Retelling. \nFair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons. \nSummary: \nWas the greatest ever love story a lie? \nThe first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline\, headstrong and independent\, is unsure of Romeo’s attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent\, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. \nSoon though\, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match\, only for Romeo’s gaze to turn towards her cousin\, thirteen-year-old Juliet. Gradually Rosaline realizes that it is not only Juliet’s reputation at stake\, but her life .With only hours remaining before she will be banished behind the nunnery walls\, will Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo? Or can this story only ever end one way? \nFor more information about this book club click here.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-12/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T183000
DTSTAMP:20260320T183228Z
CREATED:20260320T183226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T183228Z
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SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor April we will be continuing Northanger Abbey. \nSummary: Catherine Morland\, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend\, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney\, who invites her to visit his family estate\, Northanger Abbey. Once there\, Catherine\, a great reader of Gothic thrillers\, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry’s mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry\, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events\, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/teen-book-club-22-8-4-2-7-5/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T193000
DTSTAMP:20250830T175744Z
CREATED:20250830T175743Z
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SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for September is Moana 2.\n\nSummary:\nAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors\, a strong-willed girl journeys with her crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous\, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6/2026-04-09/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000603-1775811600-1775815200@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-04-10/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T195241Z
CREATED:20251021T195241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T195241Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur April selection is The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. \nBook Summary: \nStrasbourg\, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer\, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest\, and when hundreds of other women join her\, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city\, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law\, tending the bees that are the family’s livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city’s women\, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years\, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. \nIt is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet\, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg\, she too\, is dancing to a dangerous tune. . . .
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-9/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260320T183713Z
CREATED:20260320T183711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T183713Z
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SUMMARY:Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Every month we’ll read a book that has been banned or challenged. We’ve picked the first few reads\, but we want your suggestions for what we read going forward! \nBanned Book Club will meet the third Tuesday of each month. \nOur pick for April is Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown. \nBook Summary: \nEcho Brown is a wizard from the East Side\, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side\, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day\, Echo travels between two worlds\, leaving her brothers\, her friends\, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her\, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-4-7-7/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260430T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-04-30/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T164616Z
CREATED:20260414T164041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T164616Z
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SUMMARY:Tales Retold Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month\, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. \nOur May pick is a Count of Monte Cristo retelling. \nFor She Is Wrath by Emily Varga. \nSummary: \nFramed for a crime she didn’t commit\, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on Mazin\, the boy responsible for her downfall\, the boy she once loved—and still can’t forget. When she discovers a fellow prisoner may have the key to exacting that vengeance–a stolen djinn treasure–they execute a daring escape together and search for the hidden treasure. \nArmed with dark magic and a new identity\, Dania enacts a plan to bring down those who betrayed her and her family\, even though Mazin stands in her way. But seeking revenge becomes a complicated game of cat and mouse\, especially when an undeniable fire still burns between them\, and the power to destroy her enemies has a price. As Dania falls deeper into her web of traps and lies\, she risks losing her humanity to her fight for vengeance–and her heart to the only boy she’s ever loved. \nFor more information about this book club click here.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000604-1778230800-1778234400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-05-08/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260514T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260514T193000
DTSTAMP:20250830T175744Z
CREATED:20250830T175743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T175744Z
UID:10000664-1778779800-1778787000@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for September is Moana 2.\n\nSummary:\nAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors\, a strong-willed girl journeys with her crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous\, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6/2026-05-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T195112Z
CREATED:20251021T195112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T195112Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur May selection is The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski. \nBook Summary: \nArmed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes\, a grandmother\, her granddaughter\, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters. \nEsther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the “funeral ladies\,” she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed—it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can’t fix. But\, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk\, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days. Iris\, Esther’s whip-smart Gen Z granddaughter\, would do anything for her family and her community. \nAs she watches her friends and family move out of their lakeside town onto bigger and better things\, Iris wonders why she feels so left behind in the place she is desperate to make her home. But when Cooper Welsh shows up\, she finally starts to feel like she’s found the missing piece of her puzzle. Cooper is dealing with becoming a legal guardian to his younger half-sister after his beloved stepmother dies. While their celebrity-chef father is focused on his booming career and top-ranked television show\, Cooper is still hurting from a public tragedy he witnessed last year as a paramedic and finding it hard to cope. With Iris in the gorgeous Ellerie County\, though\, he hopes he might finally find the home he’s been looking for. \nIt doesn’t seem like a community cookbook could possibly solve their problems\, especially one where casseroles have their own section and cream of chicken soup mix is the most frequently used ingredient. But when you mix the can-do spirit of Midwestern grandmothers with the stubborn hope of a boy raised by food plus a dash of long-awaited forgiveness—things might just turn out okay. Includes Recipes
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-8/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260528T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-05-28/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T153423Z
CREATED:20260519T153423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T153423Z
UID:10002678-1780419600-1780423200@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Tales Retold Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month\, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. \nOur June pick is a Pinocchio retelling. \nIn the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune \nSummary: \nIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees\, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson\, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine\, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson\, a human\, lives there too. They’re a family\, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP\,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts\, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together\, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission\, or worse\, reprogramming. \nFor more information about this book club click here.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T183000
DTSTAMP:20260529T194012Z
CREATED:20260529T194012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor June we will be starting Persuasion. \nSummary:  Anne Elliot\, a thoughtful and kind-hearted woman\, was once persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she deeply loved\, Captain Frederick Wentworth\, due to his lack of wealth and status. Now\, eight years later\, Anne remains unmarried and quietly endures life with her snobbish family.\nWhen Captain Wentworth returns\, wealthy and successful\, their paths cross again. Amidst the intricate social dynamics of Regency England\, Anne must navigate her lingering feelings for him while grappling with the pressures of family\, society\, and her own sense of self-worth.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jane-austen-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T193000
DTSTAMP:20260529T184210Z
CREATED:20260529T184209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T184210Z
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SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for next month. \n  \nOur movie for June is Remarkably Bright Creatures. \n\nSummary:\nThrough unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium\, Tova\, an elderly widow\, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-10-2-6-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
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SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-06-12/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T194857Z
CREATED:20251021T194856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T194857Z
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SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur June selection is Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood. \nBook Summary: \nGrace Adams gave birth\, blinked\, and now suddenly she is forty-five\, perimenopausal and stalled—the unhappiest age you can be\, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic\, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone\, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. \nGrace sets off across London\, armed with a £200 cake\, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall\, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them . . . and\, most important\, remind herself.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-7/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-06-25/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T180000
DTSTAMP:20260529T181104Z
CREATED:20241119T163855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T181104Z
UID:10001470-1783443600-1783447200@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Sci-Fi Book Club is taking over the spot of Tales Retold Book Club. Meets the first Thursday of every month. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur July book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams \nBook Summery: \nSeconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway\, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect\, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who\, for the last fifteen years\, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. \nTogether this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have”) and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed\, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian\, Zaphod’s girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan)\, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin\, a paranoid\, brilliant\, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig\, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. \nWhere are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don’t forget to bring a towel!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/tales-retold-book-club/2026-07-07/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260709T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260623T153135Z
CREATED:20260623T153135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T153135Z
UID:10002879-1783618200-1783621800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Jane Austen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month. \nWe will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. \nFor July we will be watching Persuasion. \nSummary: When Frederick Wentworth — the one who got away — crashes back into Anne Elliot’s life\, she must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jane-austen-book-club-3/
CATEGORIES:Adults,News,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260710T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260710T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000606-1783674000-1783677600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-07-10/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260716T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260716T180000
DTSTAMP:20251021T194704Z
CREATED:20251021T194703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T194704Z
UID:10000738-1784221200-1784224800@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:JFHML Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! \nExtra copies of the book are available at the front desk! \nOur August selection is A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch. \nBook Summary: \nTwenty-four-year-old bookseller and New Yorker Naomi Ackerman\, desperate to write a novel\, struggles to find the right story to tell. When\, after years of disastrous Tinder dates\, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all of her quirks—she feels she’s finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. But then Caleb’s ex-girlfriend\, Rosemary\, enters the scene. \nWhen Naomi learns that Rosemary is not safely tucked away overseas as she’d assumed but in fact lives in New York and works in the literary world\, she is fundamentally threatened and intrigued in equal measure. On paper\, Rosemary sounds like a better version of Naomi—but if they both fell for the same man\, they must have something more essential in common. \nDetermined to figure out how their stories intertwine\, Naomi’s casual Instagram stalking morphs into a full-blown friendship under false pretenses. She can’t seem to get herself to quit Rosemary\, in whom she discovers an unexpected confidant—and she can’t stop writing about her either\, having now found a more interesting subject for her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of her control\, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to separate\, Naomi manipulates the most important people in her life—her family\, her friends\, Caleb\, Rosemary\, and\, perhaps most devastatingly\, herself—in pursuit of her craft. Ultimately\, she’s forced to decide who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to write them all the perfect ending.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/jfhml-book-club-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260730T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260730T180000
DTSTAMP:20241206T184349Z
CREATED:20241008T191546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184349Z
UID:10001226-1785430800-1785434400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday of every month\, at 5:00pm. \nJoin us for games and puzzles.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/game-night-3/2026-07-30/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260804T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260804T180000
DTSTAMP:20260728T174236Z
CREATED:20260728T174236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T174236Z
UID:10003507-1785862800-1785866400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Sci-Fi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the first Thursday of every month @ 5:00. \nThis is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books\, old and new. \nOur August book is All Systems Red by Martha Wells \nBook Summery: \nOn a distant planet\, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests\, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module\, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans\, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. \nBut when a neighboring mission goes dark\, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/sci-fi-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260813T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260813T193000
DTSTAMP:20260728T181151Z
CREATED:20260728T181151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T181151Z
UID:10003637-1786642200-1786649400@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30 \nWe’ll pop the popcorn\, you bring your blanket and any other snacks! \n\nThe movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!\n\nOur movie for August is Hoppers.\n\nSummary:\nWhen scientists discover a way to transform human consciousness into robotic animals\, Mabel uses the new technology to uncover mysteries of the animal world that are beyond anything she could have ever imagined.
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/movie-night-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260814T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260814T100000
DTSTAMP:20240109T232518Z
CREATED:20240109T232518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T232518Z
UID:10000607-1786698000-1786701600@hallettlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Friends Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. \nWe discuss fundraising and program ideas\, project and volunteer opportunities\, and more! \nJoin our meetings and get involved at the Library!
URL:https://hallettlibrary.org/event/friends-meeting/2026-08-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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