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Book Club- Black History Month

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

2026-02-19 15:00:00 2026-02-19 16:00:00 America/Chicago Book Club- Black History Month Discuss a book with the group on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 3pm. Thompson Library - Community Room

Thursday, February 19
3:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2026-02-19 15:00:00 2026-02-19 16:00:00 America/Chicago Book Club- Black History Month Discuss a book with the group on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 3pm. Thompson Library - Community Room

Thompson Library

Community Room

Discuss a book with the group on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 3pm.


Winner for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2020)
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?

*Copies available at the Thompson front desk or within CALS branches* 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Literature & Language |

TAGS: | THOMPSON |

Thompson Library

Phone: 501.821.3060

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We're open 9:00AM to 6:00PM

We're closed Monday January 19 due to MLK Day

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38 Rahling Circle
Little Rock, AR 72223
Tel: 501.821.3060

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The Roosevelt Thompson Library offers patrons more than 62,000 books, magazines and audiovisual items. The 13,500-square-feet facility also includes public meeting rooms, a state-of-the-art audiovisual system, activity areas for children, study rooms, nine public computers (including 3 laptops and a Chromebook), and wireless internet access.

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