Magazine-Sep/Oct 2019

LIBRARY

BOOK CLUB Join our monthly Book Club sessions to meet fellow aficionados and partake in thoughtful discussions about award winning novels!

Adult’s Library, Thinkspace 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Complimentary refreshments will be served Book Club will be on hiatus during festive season

Thursday, September 26 Becoming by Michelle Obama

In this intimate, powerful and inspiring memoir by Michelle Obama – the former First Lady of the United States, readers are invited into her world through reflection and storytelling. From her childhood on the South side of Chicago, to her years as an executive balancing motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it in her own words and on her own terms.

Thursday, October 24 The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Overstory features of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

OVERDRIVE Save the trees and read e-books! Access a whole library of books with just a few clicks and never worry about late fines or heavy books again. 1. Download the free “Overdrive” app or go to www.americanclub.overdrive.com 2. Log in with your full membership ID (no spaces or dashes, e.g. A123400) 3. Browse and borrow

Note: Overdrive app is currently not compatible on Kindle.

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