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Boone County Library

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Home
About Us
  • Contact Us / Directions
  • Mission & Policies
Catalog
Departments
  • Children's / Teen
  • Genealogy
  • IT Dept.
More
  • Administrative Board
  • Book Clubs
  • Calendar
  • Employment
  • Events
  • Friends of the Library
  • Inclement Weather
  • Library Foundation
  • My Account
  • Newsletter
  • Online Resources
  • Room Reservations
  • Telescope Lending Program
  • 3D Printer
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Contact Us / Directions
    • Mission & Policies
  • Catalog
  • Departments
    • Children's / Teen
    • Genealogy
    • IT Dept.
  • More
    • Administrative Board
    • Book Clubs
    • Calendar
    • Employment
    • Events
    • Friends of the Library
    • Inclement Weather
    • Library Foundation
    • My Account
    • Newsletter
    • Online Resources
    • Room Reservations
    • Telescope Lending Program
    • 3D Printer
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  • About Us
    • Contact Us / Directions
    • Mission & Policies
  • Catalog
  • Departments
    • Children's / Teen
    • Genealogy
    • IT Dept.
  • More
    • Administrative Board
    • Book Clubs
    • Calendar
    • Employment
    • Events
    • Friends of the Library
    • Inclement Weather
    • Library Foundation
    • My Account
    • Newsletter
    • Online Resources
    • Room Reservations
    • Telescope Lending Program
    • 3D Printer

Book Clubs

Evening Book Club (meets the first Thursday of the month)

June 1st at 5:30 p.m. The Evening Book Club will be discussing 'Conjure Women' by Afia Atakora

  Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom.
 

Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love. 

Noon Book Club (meets the third Wednesday of the month)

June 21st at 12:00p.m. The Noon Book Club will discuss 'The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee' by

  

  In this award-winning, coming-of-age novel, ten-year-old Gracie Lee struggles to make sense out of her life as an Arkansas farm girl in the early 1970s. Wise beyond her age yet imbued with child-like innocence, Gracie focuses on the three things that keep her awake at night:

  • Solving the mystery of the man in the gray house;
  • Surviving another school year at Savage Crossing Elementary; and,
  • Saving her alcoholic Daddy from himself (and thereby saving the whole family and wider world).
  • Gracie feels certain there is more to life beyond school and dull church sermons. She worries about the soldiers in Vietnam and wonders what it must be like to have been born Lisa Marie Presley from Tennessee instead of Gracie Lee Abbott from Arkansas. Mostly, she wishes her Daddy wasn't so mean.

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