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Monthly Display & Events February 2015
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IndieFlix
Bring the film festival experience to your home with Indieflix.
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WBPL's Writers Club A place where you can put your thoughts on paper! Enhance your writing skills, participate in free-writing exercises and get feedback on written work. Registration is underway!
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Friday, February 13, 2:00 PM
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Let's Talk About Books! The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss THE PAINTED GIRLS by Cathy Marie Buchanan . Registration is underway.
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Thursday, February 26, 1:30 PM
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Busy Person's Book Group Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes. Registration is underway.
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Thursday, March 5, 7:00 PM
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A walk to remember
by Nicholas Sparks
A poignant tale of first love set in the 1950s introduces seventeen-year-old Landon, who has never payed much attention to plain Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist minister's daughter, until fate intervenes and Landon learns the true nature of beauty, the joy of giving, and the power of love. Reprint.
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The notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
Back in North Carolina after the war, Noah Calhoun cannot stop thinking about the girl he had lost a decade ago, and even though she is on the verge of marriage, she cannot stop thinking about him. Reprint.
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Pride and prejudice
by Jane Austen
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young Elizabeth Bennet copes with the romantic entanglements of her four sisters and her growing feelings for Mr. Darcy, a proud and brooding gentleman. Reprint.
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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier
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Dragonfly in amber
by Diana Gabaldon
In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser
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Sundays at Tiffany's
by James Patterson
Years after spending a lonely childhood at the side of a make-believe best friend named Michael, theater maven's daughter Jane encounters a loving flesh-and-blood Michael who is exactly like the figure of her childhood imagination.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bront
The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire moors
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Love in the time of cholera
by Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine
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Water for elephants : a novel
by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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The shape of my heart
by Ann Aguirre
When Courtney Kaufman and her bad-boy roommate, Max Cooper, embark on a trip to Max's hometown of Providence, Max plans to do everything it takes to show that he can mend Courtney's battered heart. Original.
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Someday we'll tell each other everything
by Daniela Krien
After moving in with her boyfriend on his family farm in 1990 Germany, Maria has a chance encounter with Henner, a loner and neighboring farmer, who expresses his love for her through violence and sensitivity
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The proposal : a novel
by Mary Balogh
Believing her romantic prospects are over after losing her husband in an accident and suffering a fall that leaves her with a limp, young Lady Gwendoline strives to be happy for others and finds an unexpected second chance at love. By the best-selling author of the Huxtable series. 60,000 first printing.
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Destiny's embrace
by Beverly Jenkins
Starting a new life in California, headstrong Mariah Cooper is hired as a housekeeper at Destiny, the Yates family ranch, where she meets her match in Logan Yates who is torn between sending her home and giving in to his heart's desire. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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The gift
by Danielle Steel
In a small, peaceful midwestern town during the 1950s, a happy family is shattered by a child's death, a loving marriage begins to unravel, and the arrival of a young woman will change many lives forever.
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Fifty shades of Grey
by E. L. James
When Anastasia Steele, a young literature student, interviews wealthy young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, their initial meeting introduces Anastasia to an exciting new world that will change them both forever
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Gone girl : a novel
by Gillian Flynn
When a beautiful woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage and a mysterious illness; while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred. By the best-selling author of Dark Places. 70,000 first printing.
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The silent wife : a novel
by A. S. A Harrison
Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage—a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial. Original.
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Dare me : a novel
by Megan E. Abbott
After a suspicious suicide, the members of the high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation in this new novel from the Edgar-winning author ofDie A Little.
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The other Boleyn girl : a novel
by Philippa Gregory
The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife. Originally in paperback. 50,000 first printing.
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The husband's secret
by Liane Moriarty
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot
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The girl on the train : a novel
by Paula Hawkins
Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
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Reflected in you
by Sylvia Day
A sequel to Bared to You continues the story of Eva and Gideon, whose violent backgrounds compel them to avoid each other in spite of a passionate, obsessive attraction that threatens to destroy them both. Original.
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Bared to you
by Sylvia Day
Eva Trammel, plagued by her own insecurities, is drawn into an intense, obssessive relationship with the wealthy and arrogant Gideon Cross
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A reliable wife : a novel
by Robert Goolrick
Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets
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The 19th wife : a novel
by David Ebershoff
Traces the parallel tales of a modern-day murder in a polygamous Utah compound and a late-nineteenth-century woman's efforts to eliminate polygamy, efforts that are marked by such factors as Brigham Young's expulsion of one of his wives and a ban on monogamous plays. By the author of The Danish Girl. Reprint.
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Gabriel's inferno
by Sylvan Reynard
Gabriel Emerson, a professor who specializes in Dante, is drawn to a young graduate student, Julia Mitchell, whom he idolizes, but both must face secrets from their past before they can pursue their mutual attraction
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Casablanca
Night club proprietor Rick encounters his long lost love and her Resistance-leader husband in Nazi-occupied North Africa
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Gone with the wind
Follows the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara set against the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction
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Pretty woman
A successful corporate mogul meets an independent and carefree prostitute. He teaches her about the finer things in life and she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made
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Titanic
While traveling on the doomed Titanic with her mother and fiancé, a wealthy socialite falls in love with a poor artist
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Sound of music live! /
A young woman, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain
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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Joel Barish goes through a procedure to remove memories of his girlfriend Clementine from his mind, only to realize the value of what they had as each memory is erased
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Gone girl /
A man falls under suspiscion when his wife mysteriously disappears
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Fatal attraction
After an affair with a married man, a rejected woman is driven into madness and seeks revenge on his family
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