Calendar of Events

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Book discussions are held at 10:00 am, usually on the third Monday of the month, normally in the Wisner Center at the  Cascade Library. If you would like to join the  book discussions, you can either...

     (1) ...stop by the desk in the library and leave your contact information, or...

     (2)...check the "Events" page at KDL.org, where there is a link to contact Patron Services.

We encourage attendees to read ahead of the schedule if  possible since some titles may be in short supply near the discussion  date. Here is the list of books scheduled for the 2022-2023 Book Discussion Series::

Dec 18, 2023                  West With Giraffes (Lynda Rutledge)

Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.

Jan 22, 2024                  Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley)

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother.

Feb 19, 2024                  Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)

Set in  Virginia, Demon Copperhead uses the first-person voice of its titular character to juxtapose the world’s beauty and ugliness. The story exposes the systemic failures of American institutions but celebrates the resiliency of the individual spirit. Kingsolver bases her novel on Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850) to connect the present to the past, to combine cultures, and to adapt Dickens’s mission of using literature to hold a mirror up to society.

Mar 18, 2024                  To Be Announced

All KDL book clubs will read this title, which will be selected by KDL's Programming Department as part of an upcoming winter/spring initiative called "On the Same Page." We have been assured that it is a fabulous book.

Apr 15, 2024                   Lessons In Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)

Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is a bestselling novel by Bonnie Garmus about women’s lives, careers, and struggle for empowerment in the late 50s and early 60s. It follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist who is forced to become a television chef when she finds herself a young, single mother.

May 13, 2024                 Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby VanPelt)

Tova Sullivan has lived alone ever since her husband died. Her house that used to be full of love now feels very empty. Her eighteen-year-old son Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago, and Tova has never managed to get the answers she hoped for.