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Literary ElementsDecember 2018
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, December 6, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, December 11, 1:30-3 pm Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal. Registration is underway.
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Books and Bites Monday, December 17, 7-8 pm Are you in your 20s or 30s and looking for a book group geared just for you? Join us at Panera Bread in West Babylon where you can grab a snack, some coffee & discuss the book Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand. Registration is underway. Can’t make it to the Library to register? Find and follow us on Meetup.com/Books-and-Bites-Book-Group and download the book at Live-brary.com. Newcomers welcome!
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December Table Display: Warm up this winter with one of our HOT TOPIC books!
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Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita MukhopadhyayThis collection of essays from leading feminist writers, including Cheryl Strayed, Rebecca Solnit and Jessica Valenti describe how liberals, progressives and marginalized people around the United States can persist, resist and enact lasting change despite Donald Trump’s presidency.
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael LewisThe best-selling author of Liar's Poker presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences.
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The Lexus and the Olive Treeby Thomas L. FriedmanA foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times offers an incisive look at globalization from a social, economic, political, and cultural perspective and assesses the impact of this trend both at home and abroad.
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Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failedby Sherrod BrownA leading progressive member of Congress challenges popular misconceptions about free-trade ideology, offering insight into current practices in corporate lobbying and political intimidation while citing the failures of NAFTA, significant job losses, and consequences to such arenas as the war on terror, welfare, and human rights.
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Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization by Elena ConisBy setting the complex story of American vaccination within the country's broader history, the author goes beyond the simple story of the triumph of science over disease and provides a new and perceptive account of the role of politics and social forces in medicine.
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Fear: Trump in the White Houseby Bob WoodwardDraws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, and other documents to depict life in the Trump White House, focusing on Trump's decision-making process for foreign and domestic policies.
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