The Library in collaboration with @SustainableRothley will be joining in with the Climate Coalition's Great Big Green Week, 18 – 26 September 2021. During this week you might notice lots of home crafted yellow canaries as part of the @canarycraftivist initiative, popping up around the village including the Library to highlight and celebrate how communities are taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, and encourage others to get involved too. The Library will also be giving away second- hand books during the Great Big Green week 9.30-4.30pm, and hosting Canary Flocks during opening hours! Across the UK there will be a range of events from art installations, to concerts to community stalls, to climate cafes, and everything in between; hosted by teachers, bus drivers, sport clubs, artists, community groups, places of worship, builders and anyone who cares about climate change. https://greatbiggreenweek.com @canarycraftivists
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Upcoming Events
Community Book Club - Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart (2020)
Shuggie Bain is the debut novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart, published in 2020. It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - Burnt Sugar, Agni Doshi (2020)
In Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel, Tara chooses to pursue her own desires, even as they come at an appalling cost. A restless and discontented young woman in 1980s India, she becomes so enthralled by a guru at a local ashram that she neglects her baby and abandons her marriage. She is absent and unrepentant, thoughtless of her daughter Antara, who later dispassionately describes how she “would disappear every day, dripping with milk, leaving me unfed”.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - The New Wilderness, Diana Cook (2020)
The New Wilderness is Diane Cook's debut novel that brings to life a wildly imaginative and terrifying dystopian story of a mother's battle to save her daughter from a world ravaged by climate change. Touching on humanity and our contempt for nature, this is a timely and compelling novel.
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Community Book Club - The Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2017)
Homegoing is an epic novel in every sense of the word - spanning three centuries, Homegoing is a sweeping account of two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana and the lives of their many generations of descendants in America.
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Community Book Club - Redhead at the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler (2020)
Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.