Adventure Begins at Your Library – Summer Reading Challenge 2024
We invite you to join us at each CCLD library branch this summer for our Summer Reading Challenge 2024. Our theme this year is Adventure Begins at Your Library. Our adventure begins…
Big Niangua Book Club to Discuss: “Away in a Manger” by Rhys Bowen
Away in a Manger by Rhys Bowen Book #15 of 20 in the Molly Murphy Mysteries Series It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is…
Stoutland Cookie Bookies Book Club to Discuss: “Twenty Years Later” by Charlie Donlea
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation…
Page Turners Book Club To Discuss: “The Maid” by Nita Prose
The Maid by Nita Prose Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her Gran used to interpret the world for…
Page Turners Book Club to Discuss: “Our Missing Hearts” by Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste NgTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese…
Christian Fiction Book Club to Discuss: “The Shoe Box” by Francine Rivers
The Shoe Box by Francine RiversThis tender Christmas novella tells the story of Timmy O’Neil, a foster child with a very mysterious shoe box. At first glance, it’s nothing special—just an…
14 Reasons to Love the Library All Year Long
Many think that libraries are just warehouses for books, and while some may see our libraries as antiquated and have no value now that they have the world at their…