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YA Not Club Read Feb 14, 2019 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM — Community Room, West Des Moines Public Library, West Des Moines,: Are you a "Grown Up" but you like to read and talk about Young Adult books? Are you looking for a book club that doesn’t take itself too seriously? Then join us for the West Des Moines Public Library's YA Not Club Read! The group will be discussing the 2019 Teen All Iowa Read selection during the Feburary 14 meeting.
Monticello Reads - This Blessed Earth Book Discussion Feb 21, 2019 from 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM — Monticello, Iowa - Monticello Public LIbrary,: Join the Monticello Read Book Club as we discuss the All Iowa Read This Blessed Earth. This a book that many in our rural community surrounded by agriculture can relate to. The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Far from an isolated refuge beyond the reach of global events, the family farm is increasingly at the crossroads of emerging technologies and international detente. Ted Genoways explores this rapidly changing landscape of small, traditional farming operations, mapping as it unfolds day to day. For forty years, Rick Hammond has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation farm. But as he prepares to hand off the operation to his daughter Meghan and her husband Kyle, their entire way of life is under siege. Confronted by rising corporate ownership, encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, and shifting trade policies, small farmers are often caught in the middle and fighting just to preserve their way of life. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, This Blessed Earth is both a history of American agriculture and a portrait of one family’s struggle to hold on to their legacy.
Brown Bag Book Discussion from Mar 07, 2019 12:10 PM to Mar 07, 2020 01:00 PM — Carroll Public Library,: This is a monthly book discussion sponsored by the Carroll Public Library. This group meets the first Thursday of each month (December - June) at 12:10 a.m. until 1:00 (or when the discussion is over). Bring your lunch and discuss This Blessed Earth, this years All Iowa Reads selection.
Evening Book Club Mar 19, 2019 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM — Carroll Public Library,: This is a monthly book discussion sponsored by the Carroll Public Library. This group meets the third Tuesday of each month (December - June) at 6:30 until 7:30 p.m.(or when the discussion is over).
2019 All Iowa Reads Community Book Discussion Apr 25, 2019 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM — Carnegie Library Museum, Perry, Iowa,: The 2019 Perry Public Library sponsored All Iowa Reads book discussion is scheduled for 7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 25, at the Carnegie Library Museum, in Perry, and the selected title is This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm Family by Ted Genoways. We welcome back popular discussion leader George Minot, from Iowa City, and we look forward to an engaging discussion of this timely Iowa story. Multiple copies of the book are available to check out at the library, and everyone is invited to participate in this annual community-wide event. For more information, call Perry Public Library: 515-465-3569.