Book Group
Book Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month from January through November. We do not meet in December. Watch our website calendar or our Facebook page for the most recent updates!
We read books across most genres as well as some non-fiction. Anyone is welcome to attend who has read, or is interested in, the current month's book and would like to participate in friendly discussion. Members are welcome to attend one meeting or all of them as their interests and schedules permit.
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Our next book:
Book Group will next meet
Tuesday, June 27
at 4:00 p.m.
to discuss
“The Book of Hope” by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams.
Come early to enjoy fika—beverages and treats─
starting at 3:40 p.m.!
You can also find this event on the library’s Facebook page.
Famed naturalist Jane Goodall and writer Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope.
Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action?
While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice.
And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure.