Adventure Pass Changes in 2025

Due to software issues affecting all libraries using the service, the Des Moines Public Library’s Iowa Adventure Pass program will no longer be available in 2025. Any reservation already made for 2025 will be honored, but we encourage anyone with a current reservation to print those passes immediately. Customers can make new reservations for passes that must be used by December 31, 2024. We hope to reintroduce the service at a later time, and we apologize for the inconvenience. 

AViD Archive

2022 AViD Series

  • Brad Meltzer
  • Angeline Boulley
  • Amanda Montell
  • Lauren Groff
  • Jason Mott
  • Local Author Panel
  • Karen Slaughter

2021 AViD Series

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AViD was cancelled in 2020. All 2021 events were virtual.

  • Adam Higginbotham
  • Tayari Jones
  • Robert Kolker
  • Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Ibi Zoboi
  • Erin Hilderbrand

2018 AViD Series

2017 AViD Series

  • Michelle Hoover
  • Eloisa James
  • Jon Ronson
  • Nathan Hill
  • Heather Gudenkauf
  • Maureen Corrigan

2016 AViD Series

  • Karen Abbott
  • Christina Baker Kline
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • David Morrell
  • Pamela Smith Hill
  • James Edward Mills
  • Jenny Lawson

2015 AViD Series

  • John Stauffer
  • Steve Berry
  • Rebecca Skloot
  • Bill Cotton
  • Robin Oliveira
  • Jon Katz
  • Marisa de los Santos

2014 AViD Series

  • Dr. Terry Wahls
  • Neil Nakadate
  • New Adult Panel
  • David Haynes
  • Thomas Maltman
  • Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Beth Howard
  • Wally Lamb
  • Billy Collins

2013 AViD Series

2012 AViD Series

2011 AViD Series

2010 AViD Series

2009 AViD Series

2008 AViD Series

2007 AViD Series

  • Jim Autry
  • Shirley Damsgaard
  • Bill Geist
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Masha Hamilton
  • Chip Kidd
  • Erik Larson
  • Greg Mortenson
  • Mary Doria Russell

2006 AViD Series

  • Maureen Corrigan
  • Diane Mott Davidson
  • Mark Doty
  • Janet Evanovich
  • Michael Gartner
  • David Laskin
  • Barbara Robinette Moss
  • Molly Peacock
  • James Tate

2005 AViD Series

  • Elizabeth Berg
  • Dayton Duncan
  • Don Harstad
  • Peter Hedges
  • Cokie Roberts
  • Luis J. Rodriguez

2004 AViD Series

  • Rick Bragg
  • Ruth Irene Garrett
  • Philip Margolin
  • Dow Mossman and Mark Moskowitz
  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Juan Williams

2003 AViD Series

  • Chris Bohjalian
  • Nancy Carlson
  • Max Allan Collins
  • Tom Hallman
  • J.A. Jance
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard

2002 AViD Series

  • Stephen Bloom
  • Tom Bodett
  • Donald Kaul
  • Tinker Marks
  • Lisa Scottoline
  • Eleanora Tate

2001 AViD Series

  • Bill Bryson
  • Donald Harstad
  • Barbara Robinette Moss