Introduction

Here's what we're reading in October. Want to know more? Visit http://go.hmcpl.org/bookclubs to get contact info, directions, and full booklists for each of our book clubs.

Bailey Cove Classics: The Bhagavad Gita (Monday, October 10, 2011 - 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Morning: Running the Books : the Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Science Fiction Book Club: Feed by M.T. Anderson (Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 6:00pm)
Bailey Cove Young Adult Book Club: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 6:00pm)

Bhagavad Gita : a new translation - Stephen Mitchell

Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2002

ISBN-13: 9780609810347
ISBN-10: 0609810340

Dialogue between the warrior, Arjuna, and his charioteer, the god Krishna, discusses the purpose of war, the importance of duty, and the spiritual nature of existence, in a new translation of this ancient Hindu poem that forms one section of the epic Mahabharata. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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Running the books : the adventures of an accidental prison librarian - Avi Steinberg

Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/19/2010

ISBN-13: 9780385529099
ISBN-10: 0385529090

A lighthearted immersion memoir chronicles the Harvard graduate and lapsed Orthodox Jewish author's stint as a librarian in a tough Boston prison, where he met such inmates as a pimp who enlisted his help writing a memoir and a gangster who dreamed of hosting a cooking show. 35,000 first printing.

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Feed - M. T. Anderson

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2004

ISBN-13: 9780763622596
ISBN-10: 0763622591

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. By the author of Burger Wuss. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

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Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children - Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Quirk Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/07/2011

ISBN-13: 9781594744761
ISBN-10: 1594744769

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.