BYOB (Bring Your Own Book!) Book Club! Always wanted to join a book club but didn’t have the time to commit to the reading or tired of the assigned books? This is the event for you!
It’s a book club with a twist. Instead of reading a pre-determined title, we’ll meet and talk about what you’re currently reading and get suggestions for new titles to try. Can’t wait to talk about your new favorite read? Just want to listen in? Readers of all stripes are welcome.
We’ll meet on Monday, February 5th at Noon in the Bowman Regional Public Library. Tasty snacks provided and we’ll feature a different specialty tea for you to sample if you so desire.
No registration is required. Age 18+ Join us!
We typically meet the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the library. Come join us! This fall, we are reading in: September- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, October- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, November- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. We have copies available for checkout at the Library circulation desk or you can borrow an eBook or digital audiobook through Libby. Audience: Adults.
We typically meet the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the library. Come join us! This fall, we are reading: September- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, October- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, November- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. We have copies available for checkout at the Library circulation desk or you can borrow an eBook or digital audiobook through Libby. Audience: Adults.
Join us in-person for our monthly Book Club discussion, Novel Conversations. This month we are talking about Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. Copies of the may be available at the Library desk. Call the library at 701.523.3797 or reserve online at www.bowmanlibrary.org All are welcome!
Join us on Monday, April 24th at 5 PM for the Novel Conversations book club discussion. We’ll be talking about This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. Copies of this novel are available at the Library.
Join us on Monday, March 27th at 5PM for the Novel Conversations book club discussion. We’ll be talking about The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf. Copies of the book are available at the Library.
First Sunday Book Club meets once a month at the library to talk about great books. Each month we discuss a different book. Copies of the books are available at the Library. This month’s book is Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde.
The group is open to all, and there is no registration required. The group meets the first Sunday of the month from 2:00-3:00PM at the Bowman Regional Public Library.
For more information, email Sarah at bowlib@gmail.com.
Book synopsis: SOME FAMILIES YOU’RE BORN INTO. OTHERS YOU CHOOSE.
On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son.
When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find refuge in one another. Lucy never thought she’d make connections again, never mind fall in love. Pete never imagined he’d find friends as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four people aren’t allowed to be friends, much less a family, when the whole town turns violently against them.
With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and Pete say goodbye to Calvin and Justin. But through the years they keep hope alive…waiting for the world to catch up with them.
Non-Fiction Book Club meets once a month at the library to talk about great books. Each month we discuss a different book. Copies of the books are available at the Library. This month’s book is Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson.
The group is open to all, and there is no registration required. The group meets the second Sunday of the month from 2:00-3:00PM at the Bowman Regional Public Library.
For more information, email Sarah at bowlib@gmail.com.
Book synopsis: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson’s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history.
For the summer, we will be reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir for our adult book club. The discussion for this book will take place in August. There are copies available at the library front desk. Enjoy your summer!!!
More than a dozen quilters will display their quilts inspired by the book, The Book of Lost Names, by Kristin Harmel, at the Bowman Regional Public Library.
Close-up detail view of one of the quilts exhibited at the Library.
First, each quilter read the book. They met at the library to discuss the book in November. Then they used creativity and their imaginations to create their own unique quilts based on their interpretation of the novel.
The quilts will hang until the middle of April 2022.
The idea for this exhibition was presented to the library by Margie Hande. Margie approached the library after seeing an exhibit based on the book at a quilt show in Oregon. She thought it would be a fun idea to try here knowing the depth of talent found in quilters in our region.
The quilters are from Rhame, Bowman, Amidon, Belfield, and Dickinson.
Quilts on display at the Library.
The quilts will hang in the Bowman Regional Public Library until April 14th. Visit the library at any time during library hours to view the quilts. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, February 16th at 2 PM at the Library.
