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Literary ElementsMarch 2020
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English Conversation Group Monday, March 2, 6-7 pm Join librarians Jill and Tara for this conversation group intended for English language learners of all levels. Learn to speak in English with greater confidence. Quiet activities for young children, run by teen volunteers, will be available for those who need to bring their children. No registration required. Meetings will be held on a monthly basis.
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, March 5, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix, and mingle at this evening book discussion of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, March 10, 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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Let's Talk about Books Thursday, March 26, 1:30-3:30 pm The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Registration is underway.
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March Book Display: Irish Authors
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Beatlebone by Kevin BarryEscaping New York City to search for an island off the west coast of Ireland that he bought nine years earlier, John Lennon of Beatles fame leaves behind domestic life and his floundering creativity to seek isolation, only to fall into the fantastical hands of a shape-shifting Irish guide.
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A Few of the Girlsby Maeve BinchyA U.S. release of short stories by the best-selling author of Tara Road includes pieces spanning her career and features characters whose relationships with each other endure in the face of changing times, lost hopes and new loves.
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The Witch Elm by Tana FrenchLeft for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history.
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Dublinersby James JoyceDubliners is a wonderfully engaging and accessible collection of stories by James Joyce, an author famed for being difficult to read. This beautiful new edition has been chosen as the One Book, One City title for Dublin in 2012 and will be heavily promoted with events and advertising as well as in the press.
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Girl by Edna O'BrienAbducted by Boko Haram, a young woman makes a hair-raising escape from her northeast Nigerian prison before confronting the hostility and bureaucracy of being the mother of a child fathered by enemies.
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All We Shall Knowby Donal RyanFinding she has become pregnant through an extramarital fling with a much younger man, Melody endures the end of her marriage and struggles to come to terms with choices she regrets before bonding with a bold Traveller woman who helps her reclaim her life.
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