History is written by the victors. Whether you’re a hero or a traitor depends on which side you were on. Author Jennifer Nielsen tells the stories of heroes and traitors. She offered a bit of…

Jennifer Nielsen, author of “A Night Divided,” a story of a girl and her family divided by construction of the Berlin Wall at the onset of the Cold War, will talk about her book Tuesday…

The fall Iola Reads book selection is “A Night Divided” by Jennifer Nielsen.  The upper elementary/middle school level book is about Gerta, a girl in East Berlin who finds her family suddenly divided by the…

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center will cap the ongoing Iola Reads campaign Saturday with a retelling of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Years ahead of its time, the story has since become the inspiration for countless film…

We all know the Frankenstein story: Mad scientist, through a special alchemy of repurposed flesh and raw electricity, invests a humanoid creature with life. The creature then proceeds to turn on his creator, and in this…

Dr. Susan Carlson will discuss Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale, “Frankenstein” tonight as part of the ongoing Iola Reads winter campaign. Carlson is a professor of English at Pittsburg State University whose teaching emphasis focuses…

The winter Iola Reads selection will cover Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale, “Frankenstein.” At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, the 201-year-old classic tells the…