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Cookbook Book Group - Healthy Cooking for the New Year Thursday January 28 at 7:00pm <p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Join us for the inaugural meeting of the Middleton Public Library Virtual Cookbook Book Group!</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This book group will meet 4 times a year and we will get together on Zoom to discuss cookbooks that share a common theme. This month’s theme is “Healthy Cooking for the New Year”. You can choose <strong>ANY</strong> cookbook you like whether it is vegetarian/vegan, paleo, Atkins or reduced sugar baking, whatever appeals to you! If you need some suggestions check out this </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://library.booksite.com/7434/nl/?list=CNL1&group=EB355"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"><u>booklist</u></span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. Ideally you will make a few different recipes from your chosen book and bring one along to the meeting. We’ll come together on Zoom to share what we learned, what works well, what fell flat and enjoy some of our creations together.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">*Please register to receive Zoom link before event</span></p> more info...
Book Discussion--The Paragon Hotel Tuesday February 16 at 10:00am <p>Join us to discuss “The Paragon Hotel" by Lyndsay Faye (2019).</p><p>*Please register to receive the Zoom link before the discussion. To pick up a copy of the book using curbside service, please call 608-827-7403 or email <a href="mailto:info@midlibrary.org">info@midlibrary.org</a>.*</p><p> </p><p>The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated <i>Jane Steele</i> and <i>Gods of Gotham</i>, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel.<br><br>The year is 1921, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line.<br><br>She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers–burning crosses, inciting violence, electing officials, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods.<br><br>Why was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear–and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel, Davy Lee, come from in the first place? And, perhaps most important, why does Blossom DuBois seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? </p> more info...
Book Discussion-- The Paragon Hotel Thursday February 18 at 7:00pm <p>Join us to discuss “The Paragon Hotel" by Lyndsay Faye (2019).</p><p>*Please register to receive the Zoom link before the discussion. To pick up a copy of the book using curbside service, please call 608-827-7403 or email <a href="mailto:info@midlibrary.org">info@midlibrary.org</a>.*</p><p> </p><p>The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated <i>Jane Steele</i> and <i>Gods of Gotham</i>, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel.<br><br>The year is 1921, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line.<br><br>She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers–burning crosses, inciting violence, electing officials, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods.<br><br>Why was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear–and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel, Davy Lee, come from in the first place? And, perhaps most important, why does Blossom DuBois seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? </p> more info...
Book Discussion-- The Paragon Hotel Tuesday February 23 at 1:00pm <p>Join us to discuss “The Paragon Hotel" by Lyndsay Faye (2019).</p><p>*Please register to receive the Zoom link before the discussion. To pick up a copy of the book using curbside service, please call 608-827-7403 or email <a href="mailto:info@midlibrary.org">info@midlibrary.org</a>.*</p><p> </p><p>The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated <i>Jane Steele</i> and <i>Gods of Gotham</i>, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel.<br><br>The year is 1921, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line.<br><br>She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers–burning crosses, inciting violence, electing officials, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods.<br><br>Why was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear–and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel, Davy Lee, come from in the first place? And, perhaps most important, why does Blossom DuBois seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? </p> more info...