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Our annual celebration of children and the importance of books and reading in their lives: Children's Day/Book Day. More information coming! 

A senator becomes famous for gunning down a known outlaw, but later, on the day of an old friend's funeral, he reveals the truth about what really happened that fateful day.

The library Board of Trustees meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:00 p.m. in Community Meeting Room B. The public is welcome to attend.

The library Board of Trustees meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:00 p.m. in Community Meeting Room B. The public is welcome to attend.

Gregory Peck won a Best Actor Oscar as a widowed, morally upright lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama. Meanwhile, his two young children become involved in a mystery involving the town pariah.

Storyteller Darrin Crow will present "Tales of Colonial America and the Revolution". 

The library Board of Trustees meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:00 p.m. in Community Meeting Room B. The public is welcome to attend.

A feisty septuagenarian reluctantly teams up with a young explorer in this Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature Film by Pixar.

The library Board of Trustees meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:00 p.m. in Community Meeting Room B. The public is welcome to attend.

A 15-year-old boy with an overprotective mother hits the road with an up-and-coming rock band in 1973 after being assigned to write an article for Rolling Stone magazine. Our Film Series for Adults happens on the fourth Monday of the

The Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library will hold its annual book sale on Friday, September 18 from 5:00-7:30 PM (Friends Member Preview Night); Saturday, September 19 from 9AM-3PM;  Sunday, September 20 from 1-5PM; and Monday, Septemb

The Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library will hold its annual book sale on Friday, September 18 from 5:00-7:30 PM (Friends Member Preview Night); Saturday, September 19 from 9AM-3PM;  Sunday, September 20 from 1-5PM; and Monday, Septemb

The Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library will hold its annual book sale on Friday, September 18 from 5:00-7:30 PM (Friends Member Preview Night); Saturday, September 19 from 9AM-3PM;  Sunday, September 20 from 1-5PM; and Monday, Septemb

The Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library will hold its annual book sale on Friday, September 18 from 5:00-7:30 PM (Friends Member Preview Night); Saturday, September 19 from 9AM-3PM;  Sunday, September 20 from 1-5PM; and Monday, Septemb

The library board of trustees normally meets on the third Tuesday of the month, but will meet on the fourth Tuesday in September 2026 due to the Friends of the Library book sale happening the previous week.

Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen star in this Western version of Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," about a group of American gunfighters who are hired to defend the beleaguered peasants of a Mexican village from the ravages of outlaws led b