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The Everything Book Club, DAYTIME IN PERSON

"Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren

2024-04-16 13:00:00 2024-04-16 14:15:00 America/New_York The Everything Book Club, DAYTIME IN PERSON A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for DAYTIME IN PERSON or on Wednesday, April 17, for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required. Main Library - Tower Room

Tuesday, April 16
1:00pm - 2:15pm

Add to Calendar 2024-04-16 13:00:00 2024-04-16 14:15:00 America/New_York The Everything Book Club, DAYTIME IN PERSON A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for DAYTIME IN PERSON or on Wednesday, April 17, for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required. Main Library - Tower Room

Main Library

Tower Room

A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for DAYTIME IN PERSON or on Wednesday, April 17, for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB

If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.

We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues:  Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is required.

ABOUT THE BOOK

An illuminating debut memoir of an acclaimed woman scientist; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a revelatory look at plants and the natural world. A New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Perfect for Earth Day!

"Lab Girl" is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.

Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.

Click on the links to order the book in print, eBook or eAudiobook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch. 

"At once a thrilling account of her discovery of her vocation and a gifted teacher’s road map to the secret lives of plants — a book that, at its best, does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.--The New York Times

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hope Jahren is a teacher, scientist, and book lover living in Oslo, Norway, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Recognized as one Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Jahren is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards and was named one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science magazine in 2005. She is the author of two works of nonfiction: "The Story of More" and "Lab Girl." 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

TAGS: | book discussion | book club |

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