Good Reads Book Club

The library hours this week are:

Sunday: 2 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Mon - Thurs:  7:45 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday:  7:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

 

Book Discussion:

Thursday, February 28th, at 12:20pm

Winter Term's book is In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hilter's Berlin by Erik Larson.

Bring your lunch and join us in the library for an engaging conversation about the book and the author.  Stop by the library if you need a copy of the book or request one online.

Have you already read this book?  Join us anyway, we’d enjoy hearing your thoughts.

 

Questions? Contact:
Dawn Winans  (x9842) or
Charles Hanson (x7812)

 

 

 

 

About the book:

"Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels.
 
But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition." 

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