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Funky Gets Wild: A Book Club
May
7
3:00 PM15:00

Funky Gets Wild: A Book Club

We are bringing back our monthly book club, with a wild twist! We will be focusing on outdoor and adventure-themed books, and every few months will include an outdoor activity prior to meeting to talk about the book!

On May 7th we will discuss Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Don’t have time to read the book? Watch the movie and join us anyway!

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Funky Gets Wild: A Book Club
Apr
16
1:30 PM13:30

Funky Gets Wild: A Book Club

We are bringing back our monthly book club, with a wild twist! We will be focusing on outdoor and adventure-themed books, and every few months will include an outdoor activity prior to meeting to talk about the book!

We are kicking off the club with a short hike at Tandy Hills Natural Area followed by a discussion of the books we would like to read in the future (first book will be Wild by Cheryl Strayed on May 7th).

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True Crime Book Club
May
21
7:00 PM19:00

True Crime Book Club

2020 Book Club is taking a new spin and focusing on True Crime books! Join us in May as we discuss Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt.

”Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex". These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed, and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired, in this utterly irresistible audio. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.”

Total Pages (Paperback): 400 pages
Audiobook Time: 15 hrs 4 min

Add upcoming book clubs to your calendar and library queue:
- June 18: Columbine (Dave Cullen)
- July 16: In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

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True Crime Book Club
Apr
16
7:00 PM19:00

True Crime Book Club

2020 Book Club is taking a new spin and focusing on True Crime books! Join us in April as we discuss Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi.


”In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers…these elements make for a true crime classic. .”

Total Pages (Paperback): 689 pages
Audiobook Time: 26 hrs 29 min

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True Crime Book Club
Mar
19
7:00 PM19:00

True Crime Book Club

2020 Book Club is taking a new spin and focusing on True Crime books! Join us in March as we discuss Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

”Erik Larson intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.”

Total Pages (Paperback): 447 pages
Audiobook Time: 15 hrs

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