This is Sarah Enright, with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today I am recommending In the Quick by Kate Hope Day, an unconventional novel with timeless quality and a remarkable heroine that’s been described as Jane Eyre meets The Martian. June is a brilliant and gifted twelve-year-old girl living in the unspecified future. Her dreams and ambitions all point towards following in the footsteps of her late uncle, a scientific astronomer credited with inventing the crucial tools that have advanced space travel. June begins attending the training school at the ..read more

This is Billie Voss with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Dear Emmie Blue , a novel by Lia Louis. The story begins with a 16-year-old girl named Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky from Kent, United Kingdom. Weeks later, on a beach in France, a young man named Lucas Moreau finds the notecard and uses the email to share that he had found her note. He was her age, and had just moved to France from London. From this email exchange, Emmie becomes known as balloon girl to Lucas and an en ..read more

This is Tyler Nordstrom with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. The Name of the Wind is a fantasy novel written by Patrick Rothfuss and is the first book in a trilogy that Rothfuss has yet to complete. At the beginning of the book, a mysterious innkeeper is revealed to be a man named Kvothe, a legendary sorcerer or arcanist in hiding. When a traveling scribe named the Chronicler recognizes Kvothe, the Chronicler asks him if he will recount his story. Kvothe assents and narrates his incredible past, telling of how as a young boy he realized that he had a natural ..read more

Richard Steinbach with the Sioux City Symphony sits in on this edition of Cultural Continuum on the eve of a new season. The Harvest Blues Fest takes over Vangarde Arts, The Sioux City Conservatory of Music hosts The Sound and Style Fashion Show at The Warrior and another History at High Noon event at The Sioux City Public Museum ..read more

Friday, October 15th, is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day . An event planned for 7 p.m. at Sioux City's Miracle Field includes an opportunity for people and families to light a candle. Katie Kruse of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, is the organizer and member of the non-profit No Foot Too Small . She shares her personal story and mission with Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer. To preregister for the event click here . No Foot Too Small was founded out of a desire to draw awareness to pregnancy loss + infant mortality while encouraging the celebration of angels. Katie Kruse ..read more

The Vangarde Arts Harvest Blues Fest takes place this weekend with a performance Saturday night from Australian blues master Michael Charles . Charles took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer about his upcoming Sioux City appearance and how his music transcends the blues genre. * Special thanks to Jane Rogers, publicist for Michael Charles. Biography: Michael Charles musical pilgrimage started over six decades ago in his birth place Melbourne, Australia. While enjoying a successful musical crusade of touring, recording, and numerous television and r ..read more

This is Jenn Delperdang, with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. The 90’s are having a nostalgic moment right now—from TV show reunions to fashion trends, hints of this decade can be found everywhere. Today, I am recommending The People We Keep by Allison Larkin—a story that begins in 1994 when sixteen-year-old April Sawicki is living alone in a run-down motor home in the small town of Little River. April’s mother abandoned her when she was very young, and her father is mostly absent from her life—choosing to stay with his new girlfriend and her son. Music is A ..read more

There are loads of events this weekend, Fall Fest, Sioux City Chamber Music are happening plus LAMB and Sioux City Community Theatre both have productions running. You can check out a guitar doc at the National Music Museum, Witchita harp (harmonica) player Dustin Arbuckle plays Sioux City in his 4th different band and Sioux City Rockestra puts on a couple of shows at The Marquee ..read more

On Saturday night the Clay County Heritage is hosting an event called “An Evening with Teddy Roosevelt” at the Clay County Regional Events Center in Spencer, Iowa. Roosevelt reprisor Joe Wiegand bring the 26 th president to life. Wiegand, has given performances across the country and currently lives in Medora, North Dakota where he works for the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation . For more information on Joe Wiegand click here . News release from Clay County Heritage : Clay County Heritage is excited to announce an event called “An Evening with Teddy Roosevelt” that will be held on Saturday ..read more

Comedian, MC, thespian and now, Cultural Continuum Co-host, Garie Lewis (AKA Mud Man) helps out SPM's Steve Smith for a jam-packed edition of Cultural Continuum. Lewis will be portraying Mud Man at this weekend's Kingdome of Riverssance Festival. Also happening this week is the Sioux City International Film Festival, and fall theater starts cranking up with Sioux City Community Theatre this Week and LAMB Arts Regional Theatre opening thier new season next Friday ..read more