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Literary ElementsJanuary 2018
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, January 4, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, January 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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Become a Literacy Suffolk Volunteer Tutor Tuesdays & Thursdays: January 16, 18, 23 & 25 5:45-8:45 each evening Be the difference in someone's life and register to become a Literacy Suffolk volunteer tutor. The West Babylon training will concentrate on helping non-native English speakers who live in the area improve their English skills. Please register online at www.LiteracySuffolk.org using the workshop number 365-ELL, or download an application form and mail it to 627 N. Sunrise Service Road, PO Box 9000, Bellport, NY 11713. There is a $40 non-refundable registration fee. For more information, call 631-286-1649. Registration is underway.
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Books and Bites Monday, January 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 All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. 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, January 25, 1:30-3:30 pm The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Registration is underway.
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January Table Display: The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017
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Manhattan Beachby Jennifer EganYears after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance.
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren ElkinCharts the relationships between women and the cities they live in, describing how a good walk in an urban setting has helped many a woman, both fictional and real, through art, history, literature and film, from Virginia Woolf to Holly Golightly.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIby David GrannThe best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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A Horse Walks into a Bar by David GrossmanAn Israeli comedian a bit past his prime conveys with semi-questionable humor anecdotes from his violence-stricken youth during a night of standup, while a judge in the audience wrestles with his own part in the comedian's losses.
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Anything is Possible by Elizabeth StroutTwo sisters, one who trades self-respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton.
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhoodby Trevor NoahThe host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike WallaceIn Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, co-author of GOTHAM, picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital.
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Six Fourby Hideo YokoyamaA Tokyo press officer attached to the cold case of a 7-year-old's abduction 14 years earlier investigates a disturbing anomaly, only to be stymied by an unimaginable discovery.
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The Book of Joan by Lidia YuknavitchAfter a series of endless wars sends most humans to live on a mysterious platform known as CIEL, the remaining earthlings, who have mutated, become galvanized by a child-warrior named Joan who possesses a mysterious power and can commune with the earth.
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