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 It's our 10th Anniversary as a community library this October! To mark this special milestone, we are hosting a series of celebratory events throughout the year including our annual scarecrow trail, an Open Air Cinema evening, a special 10th birthday raffle and a tea party for volunteers, past and present in October.

To enter a scarecrow for our 2025 Rothley Village Scarecrow Trail on 20th and 21st September 2025 - you can complete this online registration form http://form.jotform.com/251656792851064  or pop into the library during opening hours and ask for a paper form. 

 We have a new online fundraising intiative - Easyfundraising! it's easy to sign up, you just have to nominate us as your chosen charity, the online retailer then pays a small % of items purchased to us. Most major retailers take part. For more information you can use this link    How it Works | Easyfundraising 

 

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 Info on upcoming events can be found on our event calendar 

 

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Book Group: Why I'm no longer talking to white people about Race (Reni Eddo Lodge)

Book Group: Why I'm no longer talking to white people about Race (Reni Eddo Lodge)

This was a book that was begging to be written.  This is the kind of book that demands a future where we will no longer need such a book.

Event Date 13/11/2019 7:15 pm
Event End Date 13/11/2019 8:15 pm
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Book Group: A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas)

Book Group: A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas)

An anecdotal retelling of a Christmas from the view of a young child and is a romanticised version of Christmases past, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time.

Event Date 11/12/2019 7:15 pm
Event End Date 11/12/2019 8:15 pm
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Community Book Group: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

Community Book Group: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

This month's book is The Salt Path, by Raynor Winn. This uplifting memoir, about a couple who embark on a long coastal walk after becoming homeless, was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa biography award.
The book group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, and is open to everyone, whether you've read the book or not.

Event Date 08/01/2020 7:15 pm
Event End Date 08/01/2020 8:15 pm
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Community Book Group: Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Community Book Group: Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

This month's book is I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
The group is from 7.15-815. Everyone is welcome, whether you've read this book or not.

Event Date 12/02/2020 7:15 pm
Event End Date 12/02/2020 8:15 pm
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Community Book Group: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Community Book Group: Beloved by Toni Morrison

This month's book is Beloved, by Toni Morrison. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece.
Everyone is welcome, whether you've read the book or not.

Event Date 11/03/2020 7:15 pm
Event End Date 11/03/2020 8:15 pm
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