Cover to Cover Book Club

  Discussion  March 28, 2022 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City Public Library  2121 Dakota Avenue 3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary:  Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life. Discussion Questions  https://www.willacather.org/sites/default/files/files/6259/one_of_ours_discussion_questions.pdf 

  The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom  January 24, 2022 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room 2121 Dakota Avenue  South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m. Refreshment served All are welcome! Summary:  Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.  In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves. Discussion Questions 

    Discussion December 27th South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE 3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary:  In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller The Blind Side, The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives changed forever.. Discussion Questions  Available at Nebraska Overdrive Libraries

  Discussion December 13th, 2021 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary: More than anything, Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his grandfather shows him the magic there can be in a simple gift made with love. Discussion Questions   

  Discussion November 22nd  South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue  South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All Are Welcome! Summary:   At 45, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's idyllic getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. Discussion Questions   Available at the South Sioux City Public Library   and Nebraska Overdrive Libraries 

  Discussion  November 8th, 2021 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room 2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m.  Refreshments served All Are Welcome! One Book One Nebraska Page Generic Nonfiction Discussion Questions 

Discussion  October 25th, 2021 South Sioux City Public Library Meeting Room 2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE 3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome Discussion  Available on Nebraska Overdrive Libraries An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.  

Discussion  October 11th, 2021 South Sioux City Public Library  2121 Dakota Avenue  South Sioux City, Nebraska  Meeting Room  3:00 p.m. Refreshments served All are welcome. Discussion Questions from Book Riot  Summary:   At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. Available at the South Sioux City Public Library  Available from Nebraska Overdrive L...