Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America by Jennifer Sherman is our book selection for July. When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural significance of moral values is a reasonable and inevitable response to economic collapse and political powerlessness. The Times Higher Education said of the book, "Sherman's work is indeed timely in that it helps to unpack layers of meaning that underlie poverty in rural settings, as well as the depth of moral strategies that her subjects—largely forgotten by academy and country alike—bring to bear on lives constructed around scarcity, survival, family and faith in the virtues of rural American life."