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We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – March 2023

Register below for a copy of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. This powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman…READ MORE

Attend one of the discussions and keep the book! Discussions will be in
April via Zoom or in person at the Main Library.

Book Club Registration

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – Registration

Register below for a copy of A Place of Thin Veil by Bob Rosebrough now through September 30th. 

“The veil between the material and spiritual worlds is thinner and more permeable in Gallup, New Mexico. It is a place that is disproportionately and simultaneously wonderful and terrible. A reservation border-town with a remarkably diverse citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining community with an alcohol-soaked, violent history. It is a place of constant struggle where the forces of good and evil are joined in combat and where each resident faces their own inner struggles. This book isn’t just for Gallupians or New Mexicans; it is both a memoir and history about real people facing Goliath struggles.” 

book club registration

Zoom discussions will be held in October or in person at the Main Library with the author in attendance.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Register below for a copy of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo now through July 30th. 

Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew.

Register for book club

Zoom discussions will be held in August or in person at the Main Library. Refreshments will be served!

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next Book Club read.

“As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.”

Register at https://ofpl.online/programs/#bookclub receive a free copy of All
the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood now through April 30th. *A limited number of copies available, first-come, first-serve basis.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863- 1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club

OFPL’s Book Club is reading Reservation Restless by Jim Kristofic.

As a park ranger, Kristofic explores the Ganado valley, traces the paths of the Anasazi, and finds mythic experiences on sacred mountains that explain the pain and loss promised for every person who decides to love. After reconnecting with his Navajo sister and brother, Kristofic must confront his own nightmares of the Anglo society and the future it has created.

Zoom discussions will be held on:

Tuesday, November 16th
Starts at 6:00 PM with
Jim Kristofic in attendance
Saturday, November 20th
Starts at 3:00 PM.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club – Registration

Register at ofpl.online for a copy of Reservation Restless by Jim Kristofic now through October 16th.

As a park ranger, Kristofic explores the Ganado valley, traces the paths of the Anasazi, and finds mythic experiences on sacred mountains that explain the pain and loss promised for every person who decides to love. After reconnecting with his Navajo sister and brother, Kristofic must confront his own nightmares of the Anglo society and the future it has created.

Zoom discussions will be held in November and will include the author himself!

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club – August 2021

OFPL’s Book Club is reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as 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.

Zoom discussions will be held on:

Thursday, August 12th at 6:00 PM

Thursday, August 19th at 6:00 PM

Saturday, August 28th at 3:00 PM

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club – July 2021

Register at ofpl.online/ofpl-book-club for a copy of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer now through July 19th.

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as 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.

Register for OFPL’s Book Club HERE

Zoom discussions will be held in August.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Big Library Read

Borrow the featured title The Quiet Girl by S. F. Kosa with no waitlists or holds from our digital collection.

OFPL is connecting their patrons with millions of readers during the next Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club. From Monday, June 28th to Monday, July 12th, readers can solve a compelling mystery in S.F. Kosa’s debut thriller, The Quiet Girl, eBook from their public library.

Card holders can borrow the ebook without waiting by visiting Overdrive or downloading the Libby app. Readers can then discuss online at Big Library Read Discussion Forum.

Use #biglibraryread on social media, for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet and signed book by the author.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club Zoom Discussions

OFPL’s Book Club is reading Canyon Dreams: A basketball season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell.

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.

Zoom discussions will be held:

Thursday, June 17th at 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 26th at 3:00 p.m.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.