

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Parchment Book Group: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Reading Together 2026)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Parchment Book Group meets Monday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. 

Our featured book for March: The Reading Together 2026 Selection: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
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The Parchment Community Library is a Reading Together Partner with the Kalamazoo Public Library. 

Meet the author at Chenery Auditorium (714 S. Westnedge Avenue in Kalamazoo) at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 11.

Click the link for more programs related to Reading Together at other locations: https://www.kpl.gov/events/category/reading-together/

From the publisher’s website:

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.

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​Join us for an hour of discussion of the featured book! Share your thoughts, share a quote or two from the book, and rate the book from 1-10.

New guests are always warmly welcomed! ?

Let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book!

Be sure to pick up a bookmark featuring all of our upcoming monthly Book Group selections -- find them in our lobby!

#BookGroup #libraryevents #librarybookgroup #bookclub #librarybookclub #bookgroups #bookdiscussion
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Looking Ahead:

April 13: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (true crime)

May 11: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (historical fiction)

June 8: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (fiction)

July 13: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs (biography) For America 250

August 10: Heart the Lover by Lily King (fiction)
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Kalamazoo
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Parchment Community Library
- **lat**: 42.32480627
- **long**: -85.569237
- **full address**: Parchment Community Library, 364 Maple St, Kalamazoo, MI 49004-1237, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Parchment Community Library, 364 Maple St, Kalamazoo, MI 49004-1237, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Parchment Community Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Parchment Book Group: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Reading Together 2026) ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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