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VIRTUAL BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB |
| This club is hosted on a Google Meet during the lunch hour. Participants will join to discuss new titles each month and all are encouraged to enjoy their lunch too. | |
"LaRose" by Louise ErdrichWednesday, May 4 at Noon Summary: Landreaux stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition - the sweat lodge - for guidance, and finds a way forward. | |
"Time Bomb" by Joelle CharbonneauWednesday, June 1 at Noon Summary: Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber. | |
COVER-TO-COVER BOOK CLUB |
| Join the library’s monthly book club discussion group for avid adult readers in the community. We meet on the third Thursday evenings of each month to discuss bestsellers, fiction, biographies, nonfiction, classics, and more. Join us at our next session. | |
Personal ReadingThursday, May 19 at 6:00PM About the Event: At this session, we're asking club members to come share what books you've been reading lately for personal reading. There won't be an assigned book club selection for this month, instead, the club will make suggestions of great titles. | |
"How Stella Learned to Talk" by Christina HungerThursday, June 16 at 6:00PM Summary: How Stella Learned to Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. It chronicles the journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they met, to the day Stella “spoke” her first word, and the other breakthroughs they’ve had since. It also reveals the techniques Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with their pets. | |
"The Book of Lost Friends" by Lisa WingateThursday, July 21 at 6:00PM Summary: From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. | |
"Killers of the Flower Moon" by David GrannThursday, August 18 at 6:00PM Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. | |