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Friday Favorites

Take a break from your busy day to talk about books!  Join us for our library book sharing group and bring a book you want to recommend to others.  Each person will have the opportunity to share briefly with the group.  We all come away with a new to-read list, and engage in great company and conversation.  For past month's booklists, please see our blog here.

Rich Little, author of Cold Case to Case Closed ~ LizBeth Borden, My Story

Rescheduled from January!  The author of a new book about the Lizzie Borden case joins us to discuss the book.  In his book, Little asks the question, if Lizzie was found not guilty, who was the actual murderer of Andrew and Abby Borden?   It is now time to let Lizbeth tell you her side of the proceedings as the truth is revealed and the actual killer is discovered. 

Friday Favorites

Take a break from your busy day to talk about books!  Join us for our library book sharing group and bring a book you want to recommend to others.  Each person will have the opportunity to share briefly with the group.  We all come away with a new to-read list, and engage in great company and conversation.  For past month's booklists, please see our blog here.

Shackles and Floating Dungeons: Slavery and the Slave Trade in Rhode Island

Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Assistant Professor of Early American History at Roger Williams University,will be our guest for this presentation.   Some of the topics she will discuss are: how Newport and Bristol drew RI infro the wider currents of the slave trade, and why the slave trade was at the heart of the state's economic success, as well as the horrors of life on a slave ship.  Seating is limited. 

Friday Favorites

Take a break from your busy day to talk about books!  Join us for our library book sharing group and bring a book you want to recommend to others.  Each person will have the opportunity to share briefly with the group.  We all come away with a new to-read list, and engage in great company and conversation.  For past month's booklists, please see our blog here.

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