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Literary ElementsDecember 2019
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, December 5, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, December 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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Books and Bites Monday, December 16, 7-8 pm Are you in your 20s or 30s and looking for a book group geared just for you? Join us at the Library where you can grab a snack, some tea, & discuss the book The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Evans. 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 Book Display: Winter Wonderland
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Winter Gardenby Kristin HannahReunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
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Winter Street by Elin HilderbrandA family reunion at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
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The Snow Childby Eowyn IveyA childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLavertyA retired couple struggling with his dogmatic forgetfulness and her religious faith attempt to repair their marriage during a vacation in Amsterdam, where they confront painful memories of a troubled time in their native Ireland.
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A Meal in Winterby Hubert MingarelliSent into the frozen Polish countryside to track down an escaped Jewish citizen and bring him back for execution, three German soldiers take shelter in an abandoned house, where their respective beliefs are challenged by a virulent anti-Semitic drifter.
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Snowblind by Ragnar JónassonA U.S. debut from a best-selling European author follows the first posting of a rookie policeman in a peaceful Northern Iceland fishing village, where a suspicious injury and a murder reveal explosive local secrets.
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