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. 

Author Spotlight: Stephen Markley

Program Type:

Author Visits

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Join the Des Moines Public Library and Beaverdale Books for an evening with Stephen Markley, the best-selling author of Ohio. Markley’s epic new novel, The Deluge, just released in January, and has been called “a modern classic” and “prophetic, terrifying, uplifting” by legendary author Stephen King. Markley will discuss the novel and his work with author Sean Adams, whose new novel, The Thing in the Snow, also released in January. Both men are graduates of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

Beaverdale Books will have copies available for sale and signing.

Note: The Library closes at 5 p.m. on Saturday. The meeting room wing will re-open at 6:30 PM for the event.

Central Parking

Free library parking is available in Central's underground parking garage. In addition to Central's underground parking, there is also free parking available during this event in the lot across the street from the Library on 10th and Grand--look for signs. Parking around the library is metered at various costs from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday