Calendar of Events at the Livingston County Library of Chillicothe, Missouri

JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC

January 1- LIBRARY CLOSED- New Year's Day
January 11- Noon Book Group- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Summary) In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames‘s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
January 18- LIBRARY CLOSED- Martin Luther King Day

February 8- Noon Book Group- Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Summary) Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La-and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leaders, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers as they come to discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tribal curses.
February 15- LIBRARY CLOSED- President's Day

March 8- Noon Book Group- Sweet Potato Queen in Love by Jill Browne (Summary) A guide to life, love , and all that from the leader of the South‘s sassiest and most eye-catching gang of belles gone bad. Like most Southern girls, author Jill Conner Browne wasn‘t born into royalty. But while growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, she realized she possessed a few regal gifts. Based on the Queens‘ collective experience in matters of the heart, here is the anti-Southern Belle Primer-a droll and hilarious look at life and love from the world‘s only female drag queens.
March 17- Family Storytime will be held in the Children's Department from 6:00-6:30. The theme is "Wild West".

April 12- Noon Book Group-Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Summary) Though primarily a biography of Meriwether Lewis, this book also provides fascinating sketches of Thomas Jefferson, William Clark, Sacgawea, and other contemporaries.
April 14- Family Storytime will be held in the Children's Department from 6:00-6:30. The theme is "Wild West-Part 2!"

May 10- Noon Book Group- Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck (Summary) The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother, B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White; and their mother, who called her little daughter Sunshine and embraced Jackie Kennedy‘s sense of style. Her mother‘s mysterious illness could be hidden away, but soon everything that Jennifer has come to love begins to crumble, sending her on a roller coaster of loss and loneliness.
May 19- Sign up begins for Summer Reading Program Independent Reading
May 20-Family Storytime will be held in the Children's Department from 6:00-6:30.
May 31- LIBRARY CLOSED- Memorial Day

June 2- Kick-off for Summer Reading--10 a.m. at Silver Moon Plaza in Chillicothe. Featuring Steve Shoot with 'Goin Fishin' starring local pond fish
June 3-4 Friends-Only preview sale
June 5-12 Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale in the Courtroom
June 14- Noon Book Group-Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Summary) This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life.

July 5- LIBRARY CLOSED- Independence Day
July 12- Noon Book Club-Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Rosenthal (Summary) Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.

August 9- Noon Book Club-Snapshots edited by Joyce Oates (Summary) A collection of 17 stories from the pens of some of today‘s most important female authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, & Isabel Allende.

September 1- Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Septmeber 1- Family Storytime 6:00 p.m.
September 6- LIBRARY CLOSED- Labor Day
September 8- Storytime 10:00 a.m.
September 13- Noon Book Group-Map of the World by Jane Hamilton (Summary) Thirty-two-year-old Alice Goodwin begins the unremarkable June day much as every other on the small dairy farm. Suddenly, within the span of minutes, Alice‘s map of her world is forever altered when her neighbor‘s two-year-old, left with Alice for the morning, wanders away and drowns in the farm pond.
September 15- Storytime 10:00 a.m.
September 22- Storytime 10:00 a.m.
September 23-24- Friends only-Booksale Preview
September 25-October 2-Friends of the Library Book Sale
September 29- Storytime 10:00 a.m.

Through October 2nd-Friends of the Library Book Sale
October 11- Noon Book Group- Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks (Summary) Miles life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident. He still rises each morning to take care of his young son and carries out his duties as deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, but it‘s all in a numb and hopeless haze. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, who is rebuilding her own life. Slowly, their newfound love starts to soothe the pain of the past. But when a devastating secret is revealed, they start questioning everything they ever believed in.

November 8- Noon Book Group- These is My Words by Nancy Turner (Summary) Inspired by the author‘s original family memoirs, this absorbing story introduces one of the most memorable women ever to survive and prevail in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800's. A powerful love story about Sarah and Captain Jack Elliot.
November 25- LIBRARY CLOSED- Thanksgiving

December 13- Noon Book Group- Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell (Summary) In this inspiring book, Erin Gruwell and her ―unteachable, at-risk students set out on a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against ignorance, misunderstanding, and the negative forces in their own lives.
December 24- LIBRARY CLOSED- Christmas Eve
December 25- LIBRARY CLOSED- Christmas Day
December 31- LIBRARY CLOSES at 3:00- New Year's Eve