Join the Des Moines Public Library and Beaverdale Books as they present J. Ryan Stradal and his newest book, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club--a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them.

Bring the kids to Beaverdale Books in celebration of Children's Book Week. Enjoy stories, refreshments, and plenty of fun with these amazing authors.  

Inspired by the generosity of a global movement, Beaverdale Books is proud to host Above + Beyond Cancer. Beaverdale Books will donate 20% of the day’s sales.

Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel is one of our most acclaimed and revered storytellers, with her novels spanning genres from post-apocalyptic fiction to literary fiction to mystery thriller.

The Forever Days is an intimate remembrance of a lifetime of summers spent by mind/body/spirit practitioner Mary St Onge at a lakeside cabin near the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota. 

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of tense military and political thrillers.

Celebrate Dinosaur Day! Head to the library to meet special guest and author Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia for a prehistoric journey of fun stories, activities, and crafts related to all things dinosaurs. All ages are welcome!

Aisle 228 is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs and listening to baseball on the radio. The speaker also details attending games with her father. The book highlights milestones across baseball in the past 70 years and culminates in the Cubs 2016 World Series win.

Author and journalist Paul Kix’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, The Wall Street Journal and more.

Timely and propulsive, The Long Way Back is a novel that blazes its own trail, diverging from its presumed path in unexpected ways.

A ruthless sexual predator...a young woman determined to see justice done...and an aging hit man beginning to doubt his abilities...

Virginia-based writer Taylor Harris’s 2022 debut memoir, This Boy We Made, received critical acclaim.