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Law Talk: Family Law
Call 803-438-7881 to sign up for our Law Talk on Family Law in ELGIN on Monday, March 20 at 5 PM! Save your seat for this informative talk, free to the public.
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Law Talk: Special Education
Call the Camden branch (803-425-1508) to save your seat for a free Law Talk on Special Education Law with attorney Tierney Goodwyn. If someone you love has special needs, you don't want to miss it.
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Check it out Download ItBrown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today’s finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with…
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Check it outJustice Rising: 12 amazing Black women in the Civil Rights Movement
Katheryn Russell-Brown
Told through twelve short biographies, this book celebrates just some of the many Black women–each of whom has been largely underrepresented until now–who were instrumental to the nation’s fight for civil rights and the contributions they made in driving the Movement forward.
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Check it outThe Keeper : soccer, me, and the law that changed women’s lives
Kelcey Ervick
A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl’s life and changed women’s history forever.
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Check it out Download ItThe Pirate’s Wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness….
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Check it outRiver Sing Me Home
Eleanor Shearer
Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning, and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending…. The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king…
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Check it out Download ItThe Three Mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America’s most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s…
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Check it outThe Woman in the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton helped fly the first astronauts to the moon
Richard Maurer
A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon….
Kershaw County Library Updates
Knock Your Reading Goal Out of the Park with KCL & the Fireflies!
Join KCL and the Columbia Fireflies for a reading program that your child will love! They can earn a free ticket to a Fireflies baseball game and get cool Fireflies goodies when they arrive at the game. Starting on Monday, March 13, 2023, your child (ages 12 and under) can pick up a baseball...
Learn MoreKershaw County Library to Host Human Library Event
Camden, SC – Kershaw County Library invites all members of the community to come and experience The Human Library® on Sunday, February 26 from 1 PM to 5 PM and Monday, February 27 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Camden branch. This is a free, interactive event and reservations are not...
Learn MoreDo You Know? Tuesday Trivia
This best-selling prolific author was born on March 22, 1947. He has written many bestsellers, both on his own and with other authors, including a novel co-written with Dolly Parton. Can you name him?
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