Resources You Can Use
Did you know? Your Rock Island Library offers much more than books (although we have more of those than almost anyone else.)
Here's a selection of all the great resources you may not know we have:
The area's widest selection of new fiction and non-fiction books. New titles arrive almost daily!
The area's largest selection of Large-Print books. Easy on the eyes!
new car, major appliances, research prescription medications and more.
Hundreds of magazines, for every interest
Book Club Kits Available for Check Out
Did you know that the Rock Island Library offers many book club kits with six-week checkouts? Each contains multiple copies of the book along with helpful discussion guides. It's an easy (and free) way to provide your group with convenient access to the book you'll be discussing. New kits are added all the time. We call it a book club in a box!
Check our catalog for updates, or call our Reference Desk at 309-732-7341 to reserve one. A member of our staff will pull the kit for you.
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (KIT FIC SMILEY)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (KIT FIC TWAIN)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (KIT FIC WHARTON)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (KIT FIC FAULKNER)
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks (KIT FIC SPARKS)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (KIT FIC MCEWAN)
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min (KIT FIC MIN)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (KIT FIC PAT)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (KIT FIC PLATH)
Beneath a Marble Sky: A Love Story by John Shors (kIT FIC SHORS)
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin (KIT FIC MARTIN)
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (KIT B DANTICAT)
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber (KIT FIC ABE)
Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (KIT B FULLER)
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (KIT FIC HEM)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (KIT FIC ROB)
Girl wtih a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (KIT FIC CHE)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (KIT FIC WALLS)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (KIT FIC BUCK)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (KIT FIC STEINBECK)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (KIT FIC FIT)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (KIT FIC SHAFFER)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (KIT FIC ATW)
The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall (KIT FIC PAR)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (KIT FIC BRONTE)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (KIT FIC LEE)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (KIT FIC HOS)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (KIT B BEAH)
March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (KIT FIC BRO)
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kin Edwards (KIT FIC EDW)
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields (KIT 813.54 MOC)
Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust by Fern Schumer (KIT B CHAPMAN)
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (KIT FIC PICOULT)
The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (KIT FIC WELTY)
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom (KIT 977.733 BLO)
Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel by Gunda Davis (KIT B DAV)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi (KIT FIC NAF)
The Shack by William Young (KIT FIC YOUNG)
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez (KIT B AYERS)
The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb (KIT FIC MCCRUMB)
Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky (KIT FIC NEM)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (KIT B MCOURT)
The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield (KIT FIC SET)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (KIT FIC HOSSEINI)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (KIT FIC SMI)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (KIT FIC GRU)
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss (KIT FIC LISS)