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Join The Tazewell Book Club! |
Share the joy of good reads and lively discussions. This group meets monthly on the second Wednesday at noon and a light lunch is served. |
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January A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini |
| Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are brought together by war and fate. Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice. |
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| February Kindred by Octavia E. Butler |
| Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun. |
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| March Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson |
| Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family. |
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April Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
| Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance. |
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May Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver |
| Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. |
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June On Agate Hill by Lee Smith |
Set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present, this novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly Petree, an open-hearted and headstrong young Southern woman. The novel is framed with the letters and notes of a contemporary woman who seems almost a reincarnation of Molly herself. |
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310 East Main Street / P.O. Box 929 Tazewell, VA 24651 |
(276) 988-2541 Fax (276) 988-5980 |
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Mon. 9:00a - 8:00p |
Tue. 9:00a - 5:30p |
Wed. 9:00a - 5:30p |
Thu. 9:00a - 8:00p |
Fri. 9:00a - 5:30p |
Sat. 10:00a - 2:00p |
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