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Literary ElementsOctober 2016
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Exercise Your Mind Adult Summer Reading Club Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2016 Adult Summer Reading Club. This year we had 23 participants reading 224 books for a total of 66,309 pages! Congratulations to the following winners: Teri W. - Kindle Fire HD; Erin G. - Large Raffle Basket and Jolene W. - Small Raffle Basket.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2-4 pm Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Registration is underway. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal.
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Books and Bites Monday, October 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 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica. 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. Registration is underway. Newcomers are welcome!
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October Table Display From the Mind of Stephen King We're celebrating the 30th anniversary of Stephen King's It with a display of the author's works. Stop by and pick up a book sure to give you chills this Halloween!
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Carrieby Stephen KingAn introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
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Christineby Stephen KingA red-and-white, 1958 Plymouth Fury--salvaged, over every rational dissent and objection, from decay--possesses its new owner and brings hellish terror to him, his friends, and his classmates.
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Cujoby Stephen KingA family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.
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Doctor Sleepby Stephen KingAfter decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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Itby Stephen KingThey were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
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Miseryby Stephen KingNovelist Paul Sheldon wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding that he bring his heroine back to life.
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The Mistby Stephen KingA group of neighbors trapped in a grocery store by a supernatural mist--which may have been unintentionally unleashed by a nearby military base--must fight the horrific monsters that live within it.
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The Shiningby Stephen KingJack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.
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The Tommyknockersby Stephen KingRoberta Anderson, while searching for firewood in the forest, stumbles upon a buried ship and, with the help Jim Gardener, excavates an artifact that changes the townspeople of Haven.
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West Babylon Public Library 211 Route 109 West Babylon, New York 11704 (631) 669-5445http://wbpl.us |
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