Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
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Program Description
The Freed Between the Lines Book Club meets quarterly and reads banned books. Discussions are held on Thursdays in the Conference Room at 6pm.
Books are available a month ahead of the discussion at the end of the holds shelf. In November we will discuss The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
About the Book
The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.
Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steall—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...
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