Please join us for a monthly book discussion at the
Evanston Public Library
Small Meeting Room
Main Library, 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010,
Sap Rising, by Christine Lincoln

Sap Rising is Christine Lincoln's 12 linked stories of rural southern African American's lives and their longings for something different than their strained existence in Granville, MD.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham

A different take on the Western frontier, this tale is of a family of newly freed African Americans who are seeking refuge from the reconstructed South and are lured west by the promise of land.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
I'm Still Standing : from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen--my journey home by Shoshana Johnson

In honor of Veterans Day, AAL book club discusses, I'm Still Standing: from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen-my journey home. The first African American woman POW in U.S. history, Shoshana Johnson, shares her story.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon

A beautiful new literary novel from the critically-acclaimed, award-winning author of Upstate. This novel alternates between two narrators; a mother and her unborn child.