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Literary ElementsOctober 2015
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Escape the Ordinary Summer Reading Club Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2015 Adult Summer Reading Club. This year we had 20 participants reading 123 books for a total of 43,013 pages! Congratulations to the following raffle winners: Kim - Kindle Fire HDX; Pat - Large Raffle Basket and Adriana - Small Raffle Basket. We hope to see everyone and more for next year's summer reading club!
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Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. Registration is underway.
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Tuesday, October 13, 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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October is National Reading Group Month! Join one of our book groups or stop by the Library to check out our display of book group books. Can't make it to the Library? Visit our Pinterest page to see a complete list of book group titles.
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The Time Keeperby Mitch AlbomGiven one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time – a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenIn early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilby John BerendtIn charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, a local bad boy is found shot to death inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows, in a gripping account of a landmark murder case.
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A Week in Winter by Maeve BinchyA final novel by the late best-selling author of Tara Road follows the efforts of a woman who against the opinions of local detractors turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.
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The Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawFocuses on the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.
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People of the Book by Geraldine BrooksOffered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins.
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The Mysteries of Pittsburghby Michael ChabonJust graduated from college, Art Bechstein sets out on a journey to adulthood as he comes to terms with his gangster father and encounters a variety of unusual people along the way.
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The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin ClevidenceThrilled by the changes that occur in their quiet 1938 seaside town when a fireworks factory explodes, Clay and Nancy witness unexpected tensions in their adoptive family, which are further complicated by a legendary hurricane and the encroaching war.
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The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoA fable about undauntedly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a shepherd boy and an unnamed being.
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The Orchardist by Amanda CoplinWhen two feral girls--one of which is very pregnant--appear on his homestead, solitary orchardist Talmadge, who carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a century, vows to save & protect them while trying to reconcile the ghosts of his past.
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Fall of Giantsby Ken FollettFollows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Goodbye for Now by Laurie FrankelCreating an algorithm to improve his Internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot, who used his innovation to meet the love of his life, develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel García MárquezSet on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
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Still Alice by Lisa GenovaFeeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
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A Cure for Dreamsby Kaye GibbonsIn a small Southern town, a group of women caught up in secondary roles struggles to expand the dimensions of their lives in a world of poverty and male domination.
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Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin HalpernAfter being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the 29-year-old author moves in with his 73-year-old dad, whose straightforward, expletive-laden advice and opinions became a hit on Twitter and are now offered in a hilarious collection.
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The Museum of Extraordinary Thingsby Alice HoffmanThe daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniThe best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroA reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present.
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The Known World by Edward P. JonesWhen a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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The Perfect Stormby Sebastian JungerPresents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts.
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George Washington's Secret Sixby Brian KilmeadeShares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.
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Orphan Trainby Christina Baker KlineClose to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian & discovers that they're more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
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The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaDiscovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
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The Namesakeby Jhumpa LahiriAn incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations.
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The Devil in the White Cityby Erik LarsonA compelling account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 brings together the divergent stories of two very different men who played a key role in shaping the history of the event--visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, an insatiable and charming serial killer who lured women to their deaths.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg LarssonForty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthyIn a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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An Object of Beautyby Steve MartinLacey Yeager takes New York City's art world by storm, charming men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness and experiencing the highs and lows of the art world from the late 1990s into the present day.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiDescribes growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works on their lives and goals.
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Bel Cantoby Ann PatchettWhen terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, & Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO & her biggest fan.
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One True Thing by Anna QuindlenAfter caring for her mother during her final, painful battle with terminal cancer, Ellen Gulden discovers many surprising things about her mother's life and finds herself accused of murdering her mother in a mercy killing.
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The Lost Wifeby Alyson RichmanTwo young lovers in pre-war Prague are torn apart by the Nazi invasion only to meet up again decades later in New York City for another chance at romance.
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldHaving spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstoreby Robin SloanAfter a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William ShakespeareFrom the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare’s marvelous A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love.
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California
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War and Peace by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count, who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men.
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