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!
April book
Meeting on Google Meet.
April 29th, 2:30-3:30
Location TBD
Three copies of the book will be available at the Murphys Library after April 6th.
The books will be held at the front desk.
Contact Susan Sanchez at susanesanchez@gmail.com
New members always welcome to come and enjoy a friendly conversation on the latest books!
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
You might have watched the Netflix series Unorthodox. Now read the original memoir!
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.
Order this book early, as shipping times are delayed.
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