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The Books & Bites Reading Challenge: Kentucky Authors November 2020
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This month Carrie, Michael, and Adam talk about the eleventh prompt on the 2020 Books & Bites Reading Challenge. Visit jesspublib.org/books-bites for more information about the challenge. Find out more below!
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Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel
by Maryjean Wall
Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill's "respectable" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam.
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Whispers in the dark
by Laurel Hightower
Rose McFarland is a trained killer--a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional trauma of the fire. But no one knows about the visions that drove her there, angry spirits that consumed her childhood, alienated her from her family and made her doubt her own sanity--the Whispers.
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For Black girls like me
by Mariama Lockington
A lyrical story inspired by the author’s own life finds an African American adoptee into a white family exploring the complexities of family, race, sisterhood and belonging. A first novel.
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The birds of Opulence
by Crystal Wilkinson
A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic Southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona.
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Hillbilly hustle : a novel
by Wesley Browne
Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game, only to get roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor--an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists.
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Come and Go, Molly Snow
by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Carrie Marie Mullins, a Kentucky bluegrass fiddler, falls for a heartbreaking man, loses her daughter in a senseless accident, and learns the healing power of music and daily routine from two caring, older women living on a drought-struck farm.
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Join us online via Zoom or listen to our podcast!
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Zoom Meeting Connect with other book lovers in this online version of our no-pressure book club! JCPL librarians will provide lists of recommended books. We'll also discuss your recent favorites. Bring your own snacks!
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Jessamine County Public Library 600 South Main Street Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356 859-885-3523www.jesspublib.org |
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