The library will be closed on Friday, June 20, in observance of Juneteenth Independence Day. The library will be open from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, June 21, and 9 AM to 9 PM on Monday, June 23. Book drops will be available at all times.
This month's pick: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage.
One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot’s Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. The following Yuletide, Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dreamlike castle, a dire challenge answered—and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.
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Conference Room
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