Welcome to Murphys Volunteer Library
480 Park Lane
Murphys, CA
Limited hours due to Covid-19:
Tuesday through Friday
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
You can help bring a bookmobile to Calaveras County!
A mobile library coming to a corner of Calaveras near you!
With your help, Calaveras County can have a mobile library! A State Library grant will pay 2/3 of the cost of our bookmobile. Help pay the rest with a matching grant from the Friends of the Calaveras County Library.
Send donations to the Friends of the Calaveras County Library!
Join the Murphys Volunteer Library book club!
Next Book Club
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Circling the Sun by Paula Mclain
When: Thursday, January 20, 2022 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Where: Murphys Library
Any questions, call or text Joan Dionne at 209.728.7996
Yes! We are reading two books for our January meeting! Read them both, or read one. We'll be discussing them both.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. Milkweed.org
Circling the Sun by Paula Mclain
This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly. Penguinrandomhouse.com
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