Book Clubs

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Book Talk meets monthly on the last Monday of the month at 10:00 am.
This group gathers in the library's meeting room for discussion. Everyone welcome.

Join us in our love of books!
We’ll provide a reading suggestion for each month. You pick your own book to read.

 

Monthly Reading Themes for 2025
January: Beaches/Ocean
February: War
March: Biography
April: Different Culture
May: Historical
June: All read the same title
July: Read the Book From Your Favorite Movie
August: Font on the Cover is a Primary Color
September: Direction in the Title
October: Audiobook
November: Iowa Setting
December: Told in Verse

Oelwein Reads
Thursday, August 7th at 6:00. p.m.

 Oelwein Reads Book Club meets at Ampersand located at 110 South Frederick Ave. This book club will focus on books about Iowa or the Midwest.  
The book selected is Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein & Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. 

Brief summary:

In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational Holocaust survival story with the help of his daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat.