2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
This month we will be reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.
The bestselling historical fiction from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of Lee Smith and Lisa Wingate.
This month we are reading Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. This meeting will take place on Zoom.
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
A poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, that will resonate with mothers and daughters.
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This month we are reading Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. This meeting will take place on Zoom.
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
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This month we are reading Warlight by Michael Ondaatje.
In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel.
This month we are reading In Five Years by Rebeccea Serle.
This month we are reading In Five Years by Rebeccea Serle.
Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend - the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.
This month we are reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. The meeting will be taking place on Zoom. Below are instructions on how to join the book club meeting.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
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This month we are reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.
Book Group is back In-Person inside the Library! We will be reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel.
Book Group is back In-Person inside the Library! We will be reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel.