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Literary ElementsAugust 2016
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GRASP Home Study Program Monday, August 1, 5:30-8:45 pm Attend an orientation for the free home study adult literacy program (GRASP), designed to meet the needs of adults 21 and over who would like to prepare for the High School Equivalency TASC exam but are unable to attend classes on a regular basis. Individual assignments are developed by certified instructors and delivered to the Library. Telephone assistance is also available. For more information, please call (631) 667-6000 ext. 454. Registration is underway.
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Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank. Registration is underway.
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Tuesday, August 9, 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, August 29, 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 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. 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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August Table Display Yellow've These Books Stop by the Library this month to check out our display of books with yellow covers to celebrate sunny August!
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Wake Up, Sir!
by Jonathan Ames
Increasingly relying on his loyal valet, Jeeves, alcoholic writer Alan Blair wonders at the valet's coincidental likeness to the famous character from the P. G. Wodehouse mysteries and travels to a New York artist colony, where a confrontation with a nosy sculptress prompts Jeeves to show his true colors.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Emus
by Donna Andrews
Investigating her long-lost grandmother's alleged killer, Meg teams up with investigator Stanley Denton and her grandfather to stage a feral emu and ostrich rescue only to find the rescue team accused of the suspect's murder.
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Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot
by Ace Atkins
Investigating the perpetrators of violent off-field incidents who compromised the public image of a star linebacker before kidnapping his young son, Spenser assembles a team of associates to comb through the underworld of Boston while the athlete weighs a controversial decision.
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I'll Mature When I'm Dead
by Dave Barry
The Pulitzer-winning humorist tackles the rocky challenges of adulthood, from technology and the battle of the sexes to parenting and unmentionable medical procedures.
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The Skeleton in the Closet
by M. C. Beaton
When Fellworth Dolphin inherits an unexpected fortune from his miserly, cold-hearted mother, he teams up with a plain young woman and sets out to discover the source of the money, which could be linked to a long-ago train robbery in which Fell's late father may have taken part.
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Enchanted August
by Brenda Bowen
Four women struggling with loss, disappointment and overwork rent a small summer cottage in Maine, where they find wholeness in regional comforts while sharing their respective stories and rediscovering their passions.
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A Red Herring without Mustard
by C. Alan Bradley
When a Gypsy woman is wrongly accused of kidnapping a local child, precocious young Flavia de Luce draws on her encyclopedic knowledge of poisons and Gypsy lore to discern what really happened while investigating the mystery of her own mother’s fate.
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Generation A
by Douglas Coupland
Set in the near future world where all bees are extinct when 5 unconnected people from varying parts of world are each stung. Their experience unites them in ways they could not have imagined
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Getting Rid of Bradley
by Jennifer Crusie
A contemporary romance follows Lucy Savage as she goes up against her cheating ex-husband, recovers from a horrid dye job that has left her hair green, and joins forces with sexy cop Zack Warren when someone tries to kill her.
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Sisters of Heart and Snow
by Margaret Dilloway
Two estranged sisters reconnect when they return to their childhood home in response to their mother's dementia diagnosis and one of the pair takes on her mother's power of attorney.
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The Burn Palace
by Stephen Dobyns
When a Rhode Island nurse discovers that an infant left in her charge has been abducted, detective Woody Potter embarks on a baffling case with ties to a dead insurance investigator, a local Wiccan sect, a yoga center and a growling funeral director.
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman
A leading neuroscientist reveals the functions of the unconscious regions of the brain, drawing on up-to-the-minute research to identify the significance of brain areas outside of our awareness and their roles in such areas as mate selection, the perception of beauty and the future of criminal law.
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Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories
by Tony Earley
A new collection of short stories from the author of Jim the Boy includes tales about a grieving widow who has been visited by Bigfoot and an elderly woman who is plagued by the ghost of Jesse James.
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Love and Miss Communication
by Elyssa Friedland
Suffering humiliating setbacks for her overuse of social media, a Manhattan lawyer resolves to live life without her smartphone and makes a haphazard transition to relationships not dominated by tweets, texts and posts.
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The Broken Ones
by Stephen M. Irwin
The author of The Dead Path imagines a world where everyone in the world finds themselves suddenly accompanied by a personal ghost that only the haunted can see, a situation that throws the world into chaos and complicates the career of homicide detective Mariani.
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Loving Day
by Mat Johnson
After he inherits a roofless, half-renovated mansion in black Philadelphia, and subsequently discovers a daughter he never knew he had, Warren Duffy and his daughter search for a new life as they struggle with an unwanted house and its ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult and inspire a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday that celebrates interracial love.
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The Physics of Superheroes
by James Kakalios
An exploration of the science behind the powers of popular comic superheroes reveals how differences between Krypton and Earth might enable some of Superman's abilities, the number of hamburgers that Flash would need to run at supersonic speeds, and more.
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The Stranger You Know
by Andrea Kane
Casey Woods and the Forensic Instincts team investigate a serial killer targeting young redheaded victims in the third installment of the series following The Line Between Here and Gone.
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Time's Up
by Janey Mack
Expelled from the police academy and forced to work as a meter maid, Maisie follows the trail of conspiracy after she stumbles across the body of a City Hall staffer with two bullets in his chest.
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The Other Language: Stories
by Francesca Marciano
A lively collection by the author of Rules of the Wild explores how the capacity for change can lead to unexpected personal revelations and includes tales set in a Greek village during the summer holidays, Venice during film festival season and a classical dance community in southern India.
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Re Jane
by Patricia Park
Jane Re, a half-Korean, half-American orphan, escapes to Seoul where she reconnects with her family while struggling to learn the ways of modern-day Korea, and wonders if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures and accept who she really is.
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The Perfect Marriage
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Watching her parents struggle with their drug addictions, their loss of control and diminishing family unity, Mackenzie Shaw takes matters into her own hands.
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Nemesis
by Philip Roth
In a book set in 1944 Newark, devoted playground director Bucky Cantor, sidelined from the war due to his poor eyesight, watches in horror as the city's polio epidemic begins to ravage the children on his playground.
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Simple Times : Crafts for Poor People
by Amy Sedaris
America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the best-selling author of I Like You delivers a hilarious new book that will forever change the world of arts and crafts, in a satiric guide that includes 200 photos and illustrations and takes a humorous look at crafting safety, silly project ideas and more.
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Canary
by Duane Swierczynski
After being busted while doing a favor for her drug-dealing boyfriend, Sarie Holland becomes a confidential informant for a Philly narcotics cop.
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Kill Me
by Stephen White
Dr. Alan Gregory confronts the most morally perplex challenge of his career in the case of an anonymous family man who, having survived a near-fatal accident, makes a Faustian agreement with a shadowy organization that terminates the lives of clients who do not want to burden their loved ones in the event of dire illnesses or injuries.
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