Hoopla Book Club

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Teens, Adults
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Hoopla Book Club

Libertie

Wednesday, April 27th @ 4:00 pm

Join us for a totally online book club! Do you enjoy e-books? Do you love listening to audiobooks on your way to work? Can you not go anywhere without your Kindle? Join the Hoopla Book Club at the Cornwall Public Library!

Hoopla is Sign up for Hoopla here. Hoopla is an e-media resource provided for free by the Cornwall Public Library for its patrons. You can choose from hundreds of titles in their collections and borrow titles immediately without waiting for the resource to be free.

You must have a library card to register for Hoopla. You can sign up for a library card here.  

This month we will be reading Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge.

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Book Summary:

Coming of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more to music than science, feels stifled by her mother's choices and is hungry for something else-is there really only one way to have an autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, who can pass, Libertie has skin that is too dark.


Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States and rich with historical detail, Kaitlyn Greenidge's new and immersive novel will resonate with readers eager to understand our present through a deep, moving, and lyrical dive into our complicated past.

The program will be held over Zoom, which you can download for free here. Zoom is a virtual platform that allows groups of people to meet online. It can be used on any device.

See more information on the Hoopla Book club here.