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The Friends of the Library Book Sale Is This Month!

Starting with Friends Night on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 5 PM, the annual book sale offers great reads at great prices. The sale opens to the general public on Friday, Sept. 22 at 12 PM. Cash, check, and credit cards accepted!

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Totes Love My Library

Love the library? Love DIY? Then this program is for you! Join KCL Elgin on Thursday, Sept. 7 at 4 PM to craft your own tote bag. Materials provided but space limited. Email hannag@kershawcountylibrary.org to sign up. Ages 12 to adult.

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  • Arsenic & adobo

    Mia Manansala

    When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty…

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  • El Norte : the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America

    Carrie Gibson

    Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots–ones that…

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  • Family Lore

    Elizabeth Acevedo

    Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor-inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch-decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she’s led, while she’s still around to enjoy it. She’s not ill, as…

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  • Martina has too many tías

    Emma Otheguy

    A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet–but is she home at last? Also available in Spanish.

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  • Plátanos go with everything = Los plátanos van con todo

    Lissette Norman

    With the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the versatility of p?ltanos is ideal for bilingual readers as well as Spanish speakers learning English and vice versa. Paletero Man meets Fry Bread in this vibrant and cheerful…

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  • Spanish is the language of my family

    Michael Genhart

    A young boy bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish. Also available in Spanish.

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  • The Cuban Heiress

    Chanel Cleeton

    In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women’s pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro…

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  • The Hacienda

    Isabel Canas

    Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches… In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home is destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes,…

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  • Turtles of the midnight moon

    Maria Jose Fitzgerald

    Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana’s Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.

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  • When we make it

    Elisabet Velasquez

    Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she live

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  • We are not from here

    Jenny Torres Sanchez

    Teens from Guatemala escape through Mexico and attempt to reach the U.S. border. Also available in Spanish.

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Kershaw County Library Updates

Kershaw County Library Announces New Growing Readers Center

Camden, SC – The Kershaw County Library is pleased to announce the completion of the new Growing Readers Center (GRC) at the Camden library location. The center includes reading stations, materials and information for growing readers, and a mural painted by Colt Shirley and Summer Reading Program...

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The 2023 Friends Book Sale Begins This Month!

Don't miss your chance to get your hands on great reads, at a great price, and help your local libraries at the same time! The annual Friends of the Kershaw County Library Book Sale starts at the end of the month and will be at the Old Armory in Camden. The first day of the sale is Friends Night...

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Do You Know? Tuesday Trivia

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 through October 15. Why does it begin on September 15?

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