JR GALS BOOK CLUB
The JR Gals book club met on Tuesday September 16 to discuss the book The Meaning of Names by Karen Gettert Shoemaker.
Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving themselves over to the hatred only war can engender.
Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe from the effects of a war that threatens to consume the whole world.
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday October 21, 2014 at 6pm at the Library to discuss the book “The Winter People” By Jennifer McMahon.
The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable.
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara’s fate, she discovers that she’s not the only person who’s desperately looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
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National Library Week – April 13-19, 2014
BOOK CLUB
The JR gals book club met on November 12th at the Library to discuss the book Plainsong and to watch
the movie O’Pioneers. The next book club meeting will be held at a private residence for previous book
club members only…this is the book club Christmas Party!! They will be discussing the book Eventide by
Kent Haruf and enjoying a pot luck dinner!!! Everyone is invited to join book club for our next regular
meeting in January! If you are interested in joining please contact the Library at 402-693-2512.
REMINDER
This is just a reminder that the Library will be closed this Saturday due to remolding inside the Library. We will reopen on Tuesday November 19 at our regular hours!