April Book Groups

The library will be closed on Sunday, March 31 for Easter. Regular hours will resume on Monday, April 1, at 9am.

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Join us for these upcoming book discussions at Wilmette Public Library. 

CLASSICS & CONTEMPORARY

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Tuesday, April 12th, 10:30am

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul. From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists". (Provided by the publisher)

Copies of the book are available here. Ebook copies are available through Digital Library of Illinois or the Libby app. Eaudiobook copies available through Hoopla. 

Registration will close two hours before the program begins and registrants will receive a link to join shortly thereafter.

 

NOVELS @ NIGHT

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner Wednesday, April 20th, 7:00pm

We will be discussing this year's One Book, Everyone reads title, Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner. They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and Dawn's best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood in Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration came of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. Their striving working-class parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks' business, collecting secret treasures, and daydreaming about their futures--Dawn and Debra want to be doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of 'friends forever.' Then they arrive at a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they make can--and will--have devastating consequences. (Provided by the publisher)

This program is presented as part of the library’s One Book, Everyone Reads community reading program. Learn more about the series and this year’s selected book, Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner, here.

Copies of the book are available here. Ebook and eaudiobook copies are available through Digital Library of Illinois or the Libby app.

Registration will close two hours before the program begins and registrants will receive a link to join shortly thereafter.

 

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS/WPL BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner Wednesday, April 27th, 11:00am

We will be discussing this year's One Book, Everyone reads title, Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner. They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and Dawn's best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood in Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration came of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. Their striving working-class parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks' business, collecting secret treasures, and daydreaming about their futures--Dawn and Debra want to be doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of 'friends forever.' Then they arrive at a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they make can--and will--have devastating consequences. (Provided by the publisher)

This program is presented as part of the library’s One Book, Everyone Reads community reading program. Learn more about the series and this year’s selected book, Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner, here.

Copies of the book are available here. Ebook and eaudiobook copies are available through Digital Library of Illinois or the Libby app.

Registration will close two hours before the program begins and registrants will receive a link to join shortly thereafter.