Books Between Bites - Books Between Bites - Please join us June 7th 2023 at 12:15 in the Decatur Public Library’s Madden Auditorium for a Books Between Bites. Book: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan. Presenter Kay Mason. (More info below)
Also at 1030
prior to our June Books Between Bites Attorney General Kwame Raoul's Community Outreach Team will hold a presentation on Consumer Fraud & Identity Theft in the Madden Auditorium. The Fraud program begins at 10:30 a.m.
Book sale notes from Connie Peters, FOL President: As the time gets closer, we are anxious to get into our new quarters, where we hope to stay for the next few years. We hope to have access to the new quarters in June. We have ordered shelving for the children’s and young adult sections. We are excited to see our new shelving. The rest of the shelving will be very nice shelving that the library is replacing. We did well at our March sale, and had planned to have another sale in April, however, we will not be having a sale in April. Our inventory in some areas is scarce, and we have decided not to have a less than complete sale. We are always in need of books, but we are especially low at this time. If you have books that you intend to donate, now would be a great time to bring them to the library. Connie Peters President Friends of the Decatur Public Library
Books Between Bites-June 7, 2023
Please join us June 7, 2023 at 12:15 in the Decatur Public Library’s Madden Auditorium for a Books Between Bites.
Book: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Author: Kate Fagan Presenter: Kay Mason. Kay Mason is a lifelong resident of the Decatur area and a graduate of Millikin University. She retired from the Sangamon Valley School District in 2018 and continues to work as a substitute teacher both there and in Warrensburg-Latham School District. She has been secretary for the board of trustees of the Barclay Public Library District in Warrensburg for many years and is a member of their Second Saturday Book Club. Kay is in her twelfth year singing with Opus 24.
What Made Maddy Run is the heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy's life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness.
Books Between Bites is a free program at the Decatur Public Library, sponsored by the Friends of
the Decatur Library
Second Saturday Book Sales - The Friends of the Library will not be having Second Saturday Sales for a while due to the remodeling of our Friends area. We will let you know when they will start back up. Also the Monday and Thursday sales will be postponed. Thanks for your support.