Upcoming Events
2026 Community Book Read
Our 2026 January and February Book read at the East Bonner County Library is coming up–two great nights and two great books!! Extra copies for check-out of the books will be available at the Library Information Desk at the beginning of December. Audio book and ebook copies will also be able to be checked-out. Free copies of The Sum of Us (both versions) will also be available for participants on a first-come-first served basis. Both Zoom and in person options will be available for each book event. Registration is through the library so check their website to register.
January 21, 2026 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm
My Black Country–A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future by Alice Randall
"Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music."
"My Black Country is “a delightful, inspirational story of persistence, resistance, and sheer love” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of this most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture.
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February 25, 2026 at 5:30-7:30 pm
The Sum of Us–What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?
The library will have copies of the original version of this book as well as the young adult version for you to choose from.
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