Tuesday, July 14, or Wednesday, July 15, at\u00a0 9:00am Please call the library if you are interested in joining the book discussion group.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Antidote<\/i>\u00a0opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing\u2014not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories.\u00a0The Antidote\u00a0<\/i>follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples\u2019 memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch\u2019s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town\u2019s secrets and its fate.<\/p>\n Russell’s novel is above all a reckoning with a nation\u2019s forgetting\u2014enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities.\u00a0The Antidote<\/i>\u00a0echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been\u2014and what still could be.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n August Book Club Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, August 11, or Wednesday, August 12, at\u00a0 9:00am Please call the library if you are interested in joining the book discussion group.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Still Alice<\/i>\u00a0is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer’s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.<\/p>\n Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind…[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text] July Book Club Discussion Tuesday, July 14, or Wednesday, July 15, at\u00a0 9:00am The Antidote By Karen Russell This year’s One Book, One Nebraska selection Please call the library if you are interested in joining the book discussion group. [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Antidote\u00a0opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the … Continue reading Book Discussion<\/span>
\nThe Antidote<\/em>
\nBy Karen Russell
\nThis year’s One Book, One Nebraska<\/em> selection<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fairburylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/July.jpg\")
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\nStill Alice<\/em>
\nBy Lisa Genova<\/p>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n