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SUMMARY:Tales of Yesterday
LOCATION:Connie Morella Library\nConnie Morella Library
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Historical Fiction Book Club! This month's boo
 k is Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange..\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/159
 72028
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Travel back in time with our historical fi
 ction book club! From political intrigue to daring romances\, every month 
 we visit a different period in time. Join us this June for&nbsp\;<em>Wande
 ring Stars</em> by Tommy Orange.</p>\n<p>"Colorado\, 1864. Star\, a young 
 survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre\, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison
  Castle\, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by
  Richard Henry Pratt\, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found
  the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, an institution dedicated to the e
 radication of Native history\, culture\, and identity. A generation later\
 , Star's son\, Charles\, is sent to the school\, where he is brutalized by
  the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment\,
  Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student\, Opal Vi
 ola\, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence th
 at follows their bloodlines. Oakland\, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shie
 ld is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly to
 ok the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospita
 l bed\, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He
  also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to
  ease his physical trauma. His younger brother\, Lony\, suffering from PTS
 D\, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shootin
 g by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he hopes wil
 l connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift\, experimen
 ting with Ceremony and peyote\, searching for a way to heal her wounded fa
 mily."--Publisher description.</p>\n<p>Copies of the book can be picked up
  at the front desk at the Connie Morella Library\, or you can&nbsp\;<a hre
 f="https://mcpl.aspendiscovery.org/GroupedWork/b0544e7d-d250-cdb8-64d1-e9b
 b8b7d77ea-eng/Home?searchId=34985902&amp\;recordIndex=1&amp\;page=1&amp\;s
 earchSource=local&amp\;referred=resultIndex">borrow a&nbsp\;digital copy f
 rom our&nbsp\;online collection&nbsp\;here</a>.</p>\n<p>Questions about th
 is program? Contact the branch&nbsp\;240-777-0970</p>\n<p>Don't have a car
 d right now?&nbsp\; No worries!&nbsp\; Find out how to&nbsp\;<a href="http
 s://montgomerycountymd.gov/library/services/card.html">Get a Library Card<
 /a>.</p>\n<p>Accommodation Requests</p>\n<p>People who are Deaf or Hard of
  Hearing should request&nbsp\;<a href="https://montgomerycountymd.gov/Libr
 ary/accessibility/interpreter.html">English-language captioning or sign-la
 nguage interpretation</a>&nbsp\;at least five days before the library-spon
 sored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Ac
 cessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation r
 equests.</p>\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/15972028
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