Category: Books
Join The Puppet People at 1:00 PM on May 25 at the Pember Library at 33 West Main St in Granville and “Dig Into Reading” to solve the mystery of Book Island in this puppet pirate adventure! The Puppet People are husband and wife team Mark Carrigan and Michelle Smith-Carrigan who have been entertaining people for over 20 years. The program will kick off our Summer Reading programs, one for preschool, one for school-age children and a third for teens. See …
The Pember Book Club will meet on May 14 at 1:00 to discuss Last Call The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. Here’s a link to the NY Times Sunday Book Review of Okrent’s book. Learn about politics & American history during the Prohibition era.
Check out our display of books about tea, mysteries at tea shops and reading tea leaves. Stay warm!
The Pember Book Club will continue their discussion of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. BookBrowse.com’s summary says: A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; …
Join us at the Pember Library on October 18 at 6:00 PM as Michelle Yauger talks about the book she wrote about the World War II soldiers from Granville and the story of the clock honoring those soldiers. Refreshments will be provided by our friends from the Slate Valley Museum. ————————————————————————————————————————————- A clock is only an object. And like any object, it holds no meaning until we give it one. We Gave Our Best: A Small Town Honors Its Veterans …
The book club decided to read more of Mark Kurlansky's books. They are well-done and interesting. They also plan to read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann for their November meeting. More info will posted. The book club will discuss books written by Mark Kurlansky. He has had 23 books published including fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Cod, Salt, 1968, and Food of a Younger Land were all New York Times Best Sellers. His …
