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Scotch Plains Public Library Announces January Book Club Options
Resolve to read more books in 2019! Join one of the Scotch Plains Public Library's many book clubs.
Resolve to read more books in 2019! Join one of the Scotch Plains Public Library’s many book clubs. On Monday, January 7 at 10 am, the library will host Bagels & Books, where book-lovers share their recent reading experiences with other bibliophiles and pick up suggestions for future reading. Registration is required.
The library’s longstanding Evening and Afternoon Book Clubs will meet on January 14 and 15 respectively.
On Monday, January 14 at 7 pm, the Evening Book Club will discuss Kristin Hannah’s lastest novel, The Great Alone.Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger.On Tuesday, January 15 at 1 pm, the Afternoon Book Club will discuss Empress of the East by historian Leslie Peirce. Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. In Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
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For more information or to register for Bagels & Books, go to www.scotlib.org, email library@scotlib.org, call (908) 322-5007 x 204 or stop by the Reference Desk. The Scotch Plains Library is located at 1927 Bartle Avenue, one block from Park Avenue in the center of town.
