Adults

Special board meeting 

Jackson City Library Board of Trustees to discuss electrical upgrades

Tuesday July 5th 10:30 a.m.

Join us at 6:00 p.m. to learn more ways to eat and stay healthy this summer! 

Spay and neuter registration. 

Join the discussion and learn the world of honey beekeeping.

Join the discussion and learn the world of honey beekeeping. For more information, call Billy Miller at 740-395-4552

November’s book is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries.

October’s book is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.

September’s book is My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege. When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovers a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List—a man known and reviled the world over.