UPDATE 9/13/21: The September meeting of the Bookworm's Book Club will be held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to all registrants a couple days before the event. 

Join the Bookworm’s Evening Book Club this Fall online! Hosted by Reference Supervisor Sarah! Adults and older teens (16+) are welcome! New members are always welcome!

For our first meeting of the new year we are discussing, This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. 

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.

Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en­thralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

This Tender Land is available in print, Large Print, book on CD, Playaway, ebook and digital audiobook on Overdrive/Libby, and as an digital audiobook on Hoopla. Request a copy today at find.minlib.net. 

Please email Sarah at sbreen@minlib.net with any questions!