Extreme Cold Closure

As a result of the forecasted extremely cold temperatures, the Library will be closed on Friday, January 23 all day and will open at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 24.

The Game & Puzzle Swap is rescheduled to Sunday, January 25 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 

Novel Thoughts Book Club: The Second Life of Mirielle West (In-Person)

Program Type:

Books & Authors

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Join us as we discuss The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore 

Books are available at the Adult Help Desk. 

About the book: 

In an intoxicating story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s, the glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at America’s only leper colony in Carville, Louisiana…

Based on the little-known true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West by RUSA Award-winning author Amanda Skenandore brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century.