Read the Rainbow Book Club
Next Meeting - Monday, July 21, at 3:15 pm
Adult Book Club Discussion
Killing the Witches
Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Friday, August 8, at 1:30 pm and Tuesday, August 12, at 1:00 pm. We will be discussing the book "Killing the Witches" by Bill O'Reilly.
"Killing the Witches" revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
"Killing the Witches" tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, community panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.
What: Adult Book Club
When/Where: Friday, August 8, at 1:30 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
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When/Where: Tuesday, August 12, at 1:00 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2025
January: The Boys by Katie Hafner
February: Breath by James Nestor
March: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
April: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
May: James by Percival Everett
June: Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
July: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
August: Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
September: The Women by Kristin Hannah
October: Being Henry by Henry Winkler
November: Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
December: The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre