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Join us for the newest adult book club here at Eastside, where we dive into the growing collection of Young Adult Novels. These books cover topics from mysteries to romance and everything in-between, leading to an open discussion about each novel.

Open to any adult 18 and older.

Registration is required; the book is available for pick up at the Beaumont Branch’s front desk. If you have any questions, please email mstout@lexpublib.org.

Registration is required; the book is available for pick up at the Central Branch’s front desk. If you have any questions, please email mstout@lexpublib.org.

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Savory Memories: Kentucky Foodways is a unique blend of personal narrative, memories, and recipes celebrating the rich culinary heritage of Kentucky through the lens of Kentucky authors. Edited by Linda LaPinta, this collection features essays from 22 Kentucky authors, each sharing personal memories and recipes associated with a particular dish.

They came from different circumstances, with unique problems, and had their own talents. But they shared one thing in common. They were survivors— or as we like to say in the South, they had gumption.

A limited number of copies of this title are available upon request at the Tates Creek Branch Library.

Join us this month to discuss Grown Women by Sarai Johnson.

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves.

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Nic Stone is a bestselling author and an outspoken racial and social justice advocate. Stone burst onto the scene with her #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, Dear Martin, which chronicles the story of a seventeen-year-old Black high school senior, Justyce McAllister, after a bloody run-in with the police places him squarely in the crosshairs of media fallout.

Nic Stone is a bestselling author and an outspoken racial and social justice advocate. Stone burst onto the scene with her #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, Dear Martin, which chronicles the story of a seventeen-year-old Black high school senior, Justyce McAllister, after a bloody run-in with the police places him squarely in the crosshairs of media fallout.