Register your team of 4-6 puzzlers and work to complete a 750 piece puzzle for a chance to win prizes! All teams will complete the same puzzle. Puzzles are designed for adults, but families with older children are welcome to form a team. Smaller teams may be combined with other teams at the event. * Due to demand, groups may only register for one puzzle event.
On Wednesday, March 25 at 6 pm, join us for a video presentation: Memories of Five Nisei at the Aalfs Downtown Library. Video Summary: Five second-generation Japanese Americans share memories of their lives, with a focus on the World War II internment camp experience. The Nisei speakers, who are all in their 80s and 90s, will also compare their camp experiences with the detention centers in Texas for Central American refugees.
On Sunday, March 22 at 2 pm, join us for a film screening: Farewell to Manzanar. Film Summary: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.
Celebrate 2026’s Sioux City Reads season at Trivia Night at Buffalo Alice on Wednesday, March 11 from 6:30-8:30pm! Play some trivia, win books, and learn more about Sioux City Reads.
The Sioux City Reads program returns with a new title for 2026: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger. Community members are invited to join the Library for a variety of Sioux City Reads events occurring throughout March.
We want to know how this book impacted you! Write an original written work, no longer than one page, inspired by the 2026 Sioux City Reads title, The River We Remember. Submit your poem by Tuesday, March 31 in-person at any Library location or via the online form.
Sioux City Reads returns with a new title for 2026: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger! Sioux Cityans chose this title by voting on the Library’s website. This book will become the basis for a month of programs and discussions in March.
Join the Sioux City Public Library for Sioux City Reads, a community-based reading initiative where Sioux Cityans are involved every step of the way – from book selection to completing challenges and attending book discussions. Now through November 30, cast your vote to help select the next Sioux City Reads title. Copies of each book are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location.
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger is set in 1958 in a small Minnesota town. On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Vote for this title, or one of the two other options to become the 2026 Sioux City Reads title! Voting open now through November 30.
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore begins in August 1975 when a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. Vote for this title, or one of the two other options to become the 2026 Sioux City Reads title! Voting open now through November 30.