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Literary ElementsJune 2018
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Busy Person's Book Group Thursday, June 7, 7-8:30 pm Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Registration is underway.
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WBPL Writer's Club Tuesday, June 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, June 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 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith. 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, June 28, 1:30-3:30 pm The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin. Registration is underway.
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June Table Display: Celebrate Pride Month
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The Hours by Michael CunninghamIn a novel of love, family inheritance, and desperation, the author of Flesh and Blood offers a fictional account of Virginia Woolf's last days and her friendship with a poet living in his mother's shadow.
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The Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithIn order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends the suave con man Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities.
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Death in Venice by Thomas MannA new translation of the famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with an alluring Polish youth, Tadzio.
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxSurprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland.
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This One Summer by Mariko TamakiThe sumptuous graphic tale of a young teen whose latest summer at a beach lake house is overshadowed by her parents' constant arguments, her younger friend's secret sorrows and the dangerous activities of older teens.
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerThe lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
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The Paying Guests by Sarah WatersForced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple.
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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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