We are currently offering 2 book club discussions through the library. The Monday morning book discussion group meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 10am at the library. The virtual book club meets the last Tuesday of the month via Zoom at 4pm. Please email the library director Doreen Jacius if you are interested in joining.
In-Person Book Club
The in-person book club will meet on Tuesday, October 13th at 10am at the library. If you are interested in joining, please call or stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book. Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Sepetys Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 at 10:00am Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive? |
Virtual Book Club
The book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm. The following book has been chosen for October. We have some physical books and copies on our kindles available for check out. Meeting October 27th at 4pm Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris An unforgettable historical fiction novel by Kristina McMorris, inspired by a stunning piece of history from Depression-Era America. Inspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and the unexpected paths that bring us home. |
In-Person Book Club
The in-person book club will meet on Monday, November 9th at 10am at the library. If you are interested in joining, please call or stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book. Pachinko By Min Jin Lee Tuesday, November 9th, 2020 at 10:00am Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. So begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan, Sunja's family members endure harsh discrimination, catastrophes, and poverty, yet they also encounter great joy as they pursue their passions and rise to meet the challenges this new home presents. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, they are bound together by deep roots as their family faces enduring questions of faith, family, and identity. |
Virtual Book Club
The book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm. The following book has been chosen for October. We have some physical books and copies on our kindles available for check out. Meeting November 23rd at 4pm The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. |
In-Person Book Club
The in-person book club will meet on Monday, December 14th at 10am at the library. If you are interested in joining, please call or stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book.
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who Defied the Puritans
By Eve LaPlante
Monday, December 14th, 2020 at 10:00am
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex."
The in-person book club will meet on Monday, December 14th at 10am at the library. If you are interested in joining, please call or stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book.
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who Defied the Puritans
By Eve LaPlante
Monday, December 14th, 2020 at 10:00am
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex."
