Adult Services
Friends Book Club
Join us for the Friends of the Library Book Club (FOL Book Club)!
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Book Selection: Lilac Girls
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Location: Glenwood City Public Library
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Time & Date: 7:00, July 22, 2024
July Book Selection
Lilac Girls
By: Martha Hall Kelly
DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.
On the eve of a fateful war, New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.
An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she sinks deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspect neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.
For ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. But, once hired, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power.
The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious female-only Nazi concentration camp. The tragedy and triumph of their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, and Germany to Poland—capturing the indomitable pull of compassion to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.
In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, happiness, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages.
Cost: Free
This is a free event open to everyone.
Afternoon Book Club
Please come and join us for the Afternoon Book Club
Book Selection: The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Location: Glenwood City Public Library
Time & Date: 12:30 on Monday, August 5, 2024
August Book Selection
The Secret Life of Bees
By: Sue Monk Kidd
The description is from goodreads
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily’s fierce-hearted black “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina–a town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
This is a Free Event and everyone is welcome.
Summer Reading Program – Adventure Begins at Your Library
Once you conquer a book from this epic list, bring back this sheet for a stamp and a chance to win big! This year’s jackpot is a dazzling gift basket valued at $75. The Reading Challenge runs from June 10 to August 9. Let the reading games begin!
Meets the third Thursday each month @ 6:00 pm for dinner, discussion begins at 6:30.
A new Traveling Book Club will rotate each month between different restaurants.
Join friends from around St. Croix County! Explore different towns and eateries while you meet new people and try new books.
August 15- Located at Phoenix Bar & Grill; Baldwin WI | Hosted by Woodville Public Library
Book: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Description: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. This is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
Please contact the host library to register.
Watch for 2025 Community One Read information.
Supporting A Community
with Kindness
Our vision is to inspire groups of volunteers around the country to crochet/knit, collect, and donate bar soap to their local food pantries, homeless shelters, relief efforts, mission trips, social service agencies, and veterans clinics. (soapsacks.com)
The GCPL supports the “Click for Babies” program (https://www.clickforbabies.org/about-click-for-babies-campaign.php).
What is entailed:
- We are asking knitters and crocheters to make baby hats, booties or both to be donated to the program.
- The baby hats and booties need to be 50% or more purple in any shade.
- You can get patterns from the link above.
- Pick out a newborn size baby cap or baby booties pattern! Please refrain from including any potential choking and strangling hazards to babies such as pom-poms, tassels, straps, bows, ribbons, or buttons.
- Drop them off at the GCPL and will ship them in late September to Madison.