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Literary ElementsMay 2017
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, May 4, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, May 9, 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, May 22, 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 Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. 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, May 25, 1:30-3:30 pm The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny. Registration is underway.
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The Fleet of Stars by Poul AndersonThe award-winning author of Harvest of Stars brings back hero Anson Guthrie in a story about an Earth, now dependent on technology and ruled by machine intelligence, where Guthrie must embark on a journey to save the last freedoms known to humankind.
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Nightfallby Isaac AsimovAn expanded version of Asimov's short story, "Nightfall," reveals a world on the brink of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific denial and faced with the end of civilization.
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Red Rising by Pierce BrownA tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
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Armadaby Ernest ClineStruggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack Lightman questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion.
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Missing in Action by Peter DavidLost in the farthest reaches of space after being catapulted into the distant Andromeda galaxy, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the USS Excalibur find themselves caught in the middle of a genocidal interstellar war as they desperately seek a way to get home.
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American Warby Omar El AkkadA first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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Acorna's People by Anne McCaffreyAbandoned in space as a baby, and rescued by gruff human asteroid miners, Acorna is the last among her own, until she finds her true people at last, and she sets out to right an unspeakable wrong against her people.
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1Q84by Haruki MurakamiTold in alternating male and female voices, 1Q84 relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
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The Ghost Brigadesby John ScalziWhen humanity is threatened by an alliance of three adversarial races who would halt the world's expansion into space, Jared Dirac, a super-power clone who serves in the Ghost Brigades, tries to discover why the scientist who gave Jared his DNA has revealed key military secrets.
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The Gladiatorby Harry TurtledoveGrowing up in an alternate-world Milan in which the Soviet Union won the Cold War and spread communism throughout the planet, teens Gianfranco and Annarita struggle with high pressure and boredom that worsens when their favorite gaming store is abruptly shut down, a situation that reveals to the teens that the store was operated by a time traveler from a democratic world.
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Star Wars. Allegiance by Timothy ZahnFollowing the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker is learning about the Force from his late mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, while Han Solo struggles with the decision to join the Rebel Alliance, Leia helps run the rebellion while dealing with her feelings for Han, and Mara Jade is doing the Emperor's dirty work while trying to avoid Darth Vader.
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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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