{"id":51143,"date":"2024-02-26T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=51143"},"modified":"2024-02-24T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:44:04","slug":"together-we-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/together-we-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Together We Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=b5ff7c44-c03a-5184-b9c4-817cfd08480b&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51145 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/one-summer-in-savannah1.jpg?resize=266%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>If you use <a href=\"https:\/\/libbyapp.com\/interview\/welcome#doYouHaveACard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libby<\/a> through the library, you can participate in Together We Read, a book club connecting readers in the United States! The current title is<a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=b5ff7c44-c03a-5184-b9c4-817cfd08480b&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=b5ff7c44-c03a-5184-b9c4-817cfd08480b&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Summer in Savannah<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Terah Shelton Harris. This book will be available until March 6th with no waitlists or holds.<\/p>\n<p>Curious what\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=b5ff7c44-c03a-5184-b9c4-817cfd08480b&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Summer in Savannah<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is about?<\/p>\n<p><em>A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional wounds Sara would do anything to forget. But when Sara&#8217;s father falls ill, she&#8217;s forced to return home and face the ghosts of her past.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While caring for her father and running his bookstore, Sara is desperate to protect her curious, outgoing, genius daughter from the Wylers, the family of the man who assaulted her. Sara thinks she can succeed\u2014her attacker is in prison, his identical twin brother, Jacob, left town years ago, and their mother are all unaware Alana exists. But she soon learns that Jacob has also just returned to Savannah to piece together the fragments of his once-great family. And when their two worlds collide\u2014with the type of force Sara explores in her poetry and Jacob in his astrophysics\u2014they are drawn together in unexpected ways.<\/em> &#8211; Sourcebooks<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more information? Try the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.od-cdn.com\/TWR_US_OneSummerInSavannah_DiscussionGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Club Discussion Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.od-cdn.com\/TWR_US_OneSummerInSavannah_LetterfromAuthor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from the author, Terah Shelton Harris<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Libby through the library, you can participate in Together We Read, a book club connecting readers in the United States! The current title is\u00a0One Summer in Savannah\u00a0by Terah Shelton Harris. This book will be available until March 6th with no waitlists or holds. Curious what\u00a0One Summer in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/together-we-read\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,1,8],"tags":[977,5243,8183,3445,8184,8182],"class_list":["post-51143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-book-club","tag-libby","tag-one-summer-in-savannah","tag-overdrive","tag-terah-shelton-harris","tag-together-we-read"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-diT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51143\/revisions\/51147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}