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Nature Lover's Book Group Tuesday September 24 at 10:30am Join us on the last Tuesday of each month for lively discussion about nature in all genres. September: What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman October: Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben GoldfarbPlease contact group leader, Troy Hess, at troy@ontheyahara.com to register. more info...
Join us on the last Tuesday of each month for lively discussion about nature in all genres.
September: What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
October: Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Please contact group leader, Troy Hess, at troy@ontheyahara.com to register.
Book Discussion: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Thursday September 26 at 10:00am Please join us to discuss “Our Missing Hearts” by Celeste Ng. Copies of the book are available at the library service desks while supplies last.Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children and the power of art to create change. (Amazon.com) more info...
Please join us to discuss “Our Missing Hearts” by Celeste Ng. Copies of the book are available at the library service desks while supplies last.
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children and the power of art to create change. (Amazon.com)
Nature Lover's Book Group Tuesday October 29 at 10:30am Join us on the last Tuesday of each month for lively discussion about nature in all genres. October: Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben GoldfarbPlease contact group leader, Troy Hess, at troy@ontheyahara.com to register. more info...