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Literary ElementsFebruary 2019
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix, and mingle at this evening book discussion of Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, February 12, 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, February 25, 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 Still Me by Jojo Moyes. 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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Let's Talk About Books!Thursday, February 28, 1:30-3:30 pm The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss Everybody's Son by Thrity Imrigar. Registration is underway.
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February Table Display: Short Month...Short Stories
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The Accomplished Guest: Stories by Ann BeattieA new collection of stories by the award-winning author of Distortions is set along America's East Coast and explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality and aging.
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Brief Cases: More Stories from the Dresden Filesby Jim ButcherThe best-selling author of the Cinder Spires novels presents an urban fantasy story collection starring Windy City wizard Harry Dresden and featuring an assembly of famous guest editors, in an anthology that includes the original novella, "Zoo Day."
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Florida by Lauren GroffA collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
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All the Beloved Ghostsby Alison MacLeodA collection of stories includes tales of a woman emerging from mourning to spend her savings on a fur coat, a professor waiting for his new heart to be delivered, and an imagined conversation with Sylvia Plath.
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Fight No More: Stories by Lydia MilletA collection of 12 interlocking stories is set in Los Angeles and describes a broken family through the homes they inhabit, their estranged relationships and the victimization they endure at the hands of corrupt employers.
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Beautiful Days: Storiesby Joyce Carol OatesA new collection of 13 stories by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes her Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien" and features protagonists who harbor secret inner lives and assert their independence through bold, often irrevocable acts of defiance.
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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
by Curtis Sittenfeld
The best-selling author of Eligible presents a collection of 10 short stories that features both original pieces and two previously published in the New Yorker, including "The World Has Many Butterflies," in which married acquaintances play a strangely intimate game, with devastating consequences.
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An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Goodby Helene TurstenFollows a feisty, eighty-eight-year-old woman who lives a solitary existence, but finds herself at the center of several adventures and misadventures.
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