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YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2 PM. Newcomers always welcome. Meets in the Simpkins Reading Room. 
No Meeting in December
January: Thursday, January 16th at 2 PM The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. _______________ FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include: November: You Are Here by Dave Nicholls October: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman September: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton August: Octopus Month June: Jacquelyn Mitchard Books May: Judas by Amos Oz April: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout March: The Wager by David Grann February: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict January: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng ______________ |
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