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The Library is now open on Saturdays 10.00am-2.00pm, Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2.30-4.30pm, Thursdays 10.00am -12.00pm and 2.30-4.30pm.  Our Call and Collect service continues, by phone 0116 237 6162 or pop a note into the book return box.
 Coronavirus (COVID‑19) - Face masks and hand sanitiser are available on entry to the library. Please refrain from visiting the library is you have any covid-symptoms.
***Please note that the library is closed on Thursday 2nd June (no Chess Club either) for the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday. A Jubilee Book Sale is planned for Saturday 4th June 10-12pm, and Lego Club is running 2-4pm *** 

Rothley Community Library

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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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