Books & Brews: Future, Space & Environment
Books & Brews is a BYOB (bring your own book) Book Club. Each month, our facilitator will choose a reading theme for the group and the following month readers will have a chance to share new or old favorites in a round-robin style discussion. Read solo or pair up, this book club is great for both casual and avid readers alike!…
Adult Book Club: The Warmth of Other Suns
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
The Warmth of Other Suns
April, Wednesday 17 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
The story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast, and West from approximately 1915 to 1970
Contact: Amber/Hope
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Adult Book Club: Razorblade Tears
First half of book club will be dedicated to talk about our thoughts of the Author Talk. The second half of book club will be getting into our groups and discussing the books we have read.
Centers around a seemingly random act of violence that sets off an inescapable chain reaction for two fathers. When their sons are murdered in a drive-by shooting, Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee team up to avenge their untimely death.
Trigger Warnings: Violence, Homophobia, Gun Violence, Transphobia, Racism.
Focused on main character Titus Crown’s efforts to investigate several recent killings in his hometown. To solve the crime, Crown must contend with the town’s racist history, a far-right group, and a long-undiscovered serial killer.
Trigger Warnings: Racism, Murder, Violence, Death of Parent, Pedophilia, Mass/School Shootings.
Adult Book Club: Carthage
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father’s frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects—a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family.
Trigger Warning: Death, Physcial Abuse, Sexual Violence
Contact: Amber/Hope
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Adult Book Club: Tender is the Night
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night, semiautobiographical novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1934. It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé (“a used-up man”).
Trigger Warning: Mental Illness, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Racial Slurs, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gun Violence, Murder, Homophobia
Contact: Amber/Hope
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Adult Book Club: The Nickel Boys
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
The Nickel Boys
Describes life in a reform school from the point of view of young Black teenager. Whitehead based Nickel Academy on the real life Dozier School, a Florida facility that ran for over a century, until a university investigation publicized its racist and abusive practices.
Trigger Warning: Racism, Child Abuse, Physical Abuse, Sexual Assault
Contact: Amber/Hope/Tammy
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LIBRARY HOURS
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: Closed