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**No Stay and Play on February 5 because of book sale set-up. Resumes on February 12** |
Thursdays, 10:30am-11:15am **No Storytime on February 6 because of the book sale. Resumes on February 13** |
Monday, February 10, 6:00-7:00pm |
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Monday, February 17, 6:30pm |
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Friday, February 14, 2:00-3:30pm |
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The members of the Four Seasons Garden Club of South Lyon would like to welcome you to their open house on Monday, February 3 at 6:30pm! The Lyon Township Public Library will be the club's new meeting place. Come meet some new gardening friends! Refreshments will be served, and you will be treated to a presentation on the flowers of Alaska. Join the club that evening and receive a lovely "green" gift. Please feel free to bring a friend along! You do not have to register to attend. **This club is not affiliated with the library** |
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Lakewood
by Megan Giddings
When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program-and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world-but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family.
Provocative and thrilling, Lakewood is a breathtaking novel that takes an unflinching look at the moral dilemmas many working-class families face, and the horror that has been forced on black bodies in the name of science.
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When Detroit Played the Numbers : Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
by Felicia B. George
A testament to the tenacious spirit embodied in Detroit culture and history, this account reveals how numbers gambling, initially an illegal enterprise, became a community resource and institution of solidarity for Black communities through times of racial disenfranchisement and labor instability. Author Felicia B. George sheds light on the lives of Detroit's numbers operators--many self-made entrepreneurs who overcame poverty and navigated the pitfalls of racism and capitalism by both legal and illegal means. Illegal lottery operators and their families and employees were often exposed to precarity and other adverse conditions, and they profited from their neighbors' hope to make it through another day. Despite scandal and exploitation, these operators and their families also became important members of the community, providing steady employment and financial support for local businesses. This book provides a glimpse into the rich culture and history of Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods, linking the growing gambling scene there with key characters and moments in local history, including Joe Louis's rise to fame and the recall of a mayor backed by the Ku Klux Klan. In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbers" grew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
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The World According to Fannie Davis : My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
by Bridgett M. Davis
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst neighborhoods. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city using her wit, style, guts, and even gun. She ran her numbers enterprise for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: 'Dying is easy. Living takes guts.' A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to 'make a way out of no way' to provide a prosperous life for her family--and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
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Do you love reading, books and libraries? Help out our Friends' group!
What you can do:
- Volunteer to organize all of the donations that are dropped off to the library
- Assist in setting up the annual book sales 3 or 4x a year
- Volunteer to run the book sales
- Help recruit new Friends to the group
- Share ideas for special events to fund raise and support the library!
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