Join us in the meeting room for an in-pers on book discussion.
\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nTho usands of years ago\, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotam ia\, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they l eft behind\, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers\, pr eserves leaps in human ingenuity\, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly in timate\, raw\, and relatable moments\, like a dog&rsquo\;s paw prints as i t accidentally stepped into fresh clay\, or the imprint of a child&rsquo\; s teeth. In Between Two Rivers\, historian Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals wh at these ancient people chose to record about their lives\, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby \, instructions for exorcising a ghost\, countless receipts for beer\, and the messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom\, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets\, a pri ncess who may have created the world&rsquo\;s first museum\, and a working mother struggling with &ldquo\;the juggle&rdquo\; in 1900 BCE
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