Decorah Library has copies of book club books

The Decorah Public Library now has copies available for check out of two books that will be discussed at the library in April.

Adam Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" will be discussed Thursday, April 16th at 6:30 p.m.  The book chronicles how King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million- all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.

Timothy Schaffert's novel "The Swan Gondola" will be discussed Thursday, April 30th at 6:30 p.m.  Set against the setting of a World's Fair, "The Swan Gondola" is a romantic story about two lovers caught in a moment of history.

"King Leopold's Ghost"

"The Swan Gondola"