The Main Library will  be CLOSING EARLY at 5:00 PM on Thursday, May 22 for Staff Training.

 The Main Library will be CLOSED on Monday, May 26 for Memorial Day. 

Not The End of the World Book Club: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

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May's Book is: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

Not the End of the World Book Club (formerly Earth Lovers Book Club) is a monthly discussion of books on the environment, climate change and related topics.  Join us for tea, homemade cookies and thoughtful conversation.   This is a hybrid book club.  Please contact Barbara at bshatara at burlingtonvt dot gov to obtain the Zoom link.

About This Month's Book:

Not The End of the World Book Club: What If We Get It Right by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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April's Book is: 

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures 

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  

Led by Jennifer Green, Director of Sustainability and Workforce Development, Burlington Electric

Queer Reads Book Club @ Pride Center of VT

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Interested in reading and discussing LGBTQIA+ books?

FFL Book Discussion Group: Humanly Possible

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Join other readers at this virtual discussion -  on Zoom of Sarah Bakewell's Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.

About This Month's Book: Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

FFL Book Discussion Group: There are Rivers in the Sky

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Join other readers at this virtual discussion -  on Zoom of Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky

Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.

About This Month's Book: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

FFL Book Discussion Group: Colored Television

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Join other readers at this virtual discussion -  on Zoom of Danzy Senna's Colored Television

Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.

About This Month's Book: Colored Television by Danzy Senna

FFL Book Discussion Group: The Black Box

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Join other readers at this virtual discussion -  on Zoom of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Box: Writing the Race

Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.

About This Month's Book, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Box: Writing the Race:

Dyke Night Movie Series: I Saw the TV Glow

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Movie Screening: I Saw the TV Glow

Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. A once-in-a-generation horror from Jane Schoenbrun.