Don’t forget to attend the Durham Tech Library Book Club‘s meeting on Thursday, December 3rd. It will be at 3pm in the Schwartz conference room, Building 5. The book we will be discussing is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
Station Eleven by
Emily St. John Mandel
Haven’t read it? It’s not too late! The library still has a copy reserved behind the circulation desk for you to check out.
Can’t finish it on time? Come anyway, we’d still love for you to join us!
The votes are in! The next book that the Durham Tech Library Book Club is reading will be Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The library has 5 copies of the book waiting behind the circulation desk to be checked out and enjoyed.
The meeting to discuss this book will be December 3rd at 3pm in the Schwartz Conference Room. Join us!
Station Eleven by
Emily St. John Mandel
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside as life disintegrates outside. This novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
The Library is excited to announce our student, faculty, and staff book club! We will have our first meeting on Monday, Oct. 19th at 3pm in the ERC Schwartz conference room.
The first book selection is I Am Malala by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. The library has several copies of the book available for borrowing and you can ask for a copy at the desk. 
Here is a description of the book from the GoodReads website:
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate. I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world.
For more information about the book club, please visit:
http://durhamtech.libguides.com/bookclub