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THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson
Date: February 11, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions. Check the Catalog 
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UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri
Date: March 11, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair. Check the Catalog
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THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery
Date: May 13, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. Check the Catalog
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THE LACE READER by Brunonia Barry
Date: June 10, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Having left her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, fifteen years ago under troubling circumstances, psychic Towner Whitney reluctantly returns after her eighty-five-year-old great-aunt Eva suddenly disappears and joins local cop John Rafferty in his investigation into the mystery.
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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Geraldine Brooks
Date: July 08, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
From the Pulitzer Prize –winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Check the Catalog
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THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Date: August 12, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. Check the Catalog
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THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga
Date: September 09, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is Disillusioned by the city's 21st century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past. Check the Catalog
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FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
Date: October 14, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit. Check the Catalog
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EMBERS by Sándor Márai
Date: November 18, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Following a forty-one year separation, two men reunite in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains to share stories and accusations touching on their lives and that of a third person, the now-dead lady of the castle. Check the Catalog Because the Library is closed on Nov 11, this meeting will be off schedule.
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A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler
Date: December 09, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
In her 14th work of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the story of Baltimore's Barnaby Gaitlin, a furniture mover with a history of misdemeanors and a fair-weather girlfriend. Check the Catalog
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IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS by Paul Auster
Date: January 13, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Anna Blume, searching for her brother who has disappeared, recounts her wanderings through a modern urban reprise of the Dark Ages where she becomes a member of a scavenger class in search of objects from the past. Check the catalog
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson
Date: February 10, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
40 years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines
THE BIG READ
Date: March 10, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The story of two African American men struggling to attain manhood in a prejudiced society, the tale is set in Bayonne, La. in the late 1940s. It concerns Jefferson, a mentally slow, barely literate young man, who, though an innocent bystander to a shootout between a white store owner and two black robbers, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and the sophisticated, educated man who comes to his aid. Check the Catalog
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UNCOMMON READER by Alan Bennett
Date: April 14, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy. Check the Catalog
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OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
Date: May 12, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son. Check the Catalog
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THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy
Date: April 09, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destrucion of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
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REIVERS: A REMINISCENCE by William Faulkner
Date: May 14, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Great comic novel of 3 young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
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DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee
Date: June 11, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer.
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THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Date: July 09, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. Pulitzer Prize Winner; National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist.
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BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett
Date: August 13, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
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ART OF MENDING by Elizabeth Berg
Date: September 10, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister's allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family.
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THE MAYTREES by Annie Dillard
Date: October 08, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Sharing a simple life with his wife and young son in the post-war artist community of his childhood, free-thinking poet Toby Maytree is aided with child-care responsibilities by close friend Deary, who years later comes between Toby and his wife.
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A PLACE OF SAFETY: A CHIEF INSPECTOR BARNABY MYSTERY by Caroline Graham
Date: November 12, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The charming English village of Ferne Basset is turned upside down by the murder of local man who had recently witnessed the "suicide" of a young woman who was in trouble with the law.
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RUN by Ann Patchett
Date: December 10, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
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BRIDGE OF SIGHS by Richard Russo
Date: January 14, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indomitable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates.
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HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson
Date: June 09, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt.
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MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
Date: July 14, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Published in 1918. Her best known work, it honors the immigrant settlers of the American plains. The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
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THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey
Date: August 11, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
A hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons. An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters. Check the Catalog
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FAIR AND TENDER LADIES by Lee Smith
Date: September 08, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
A series of letters, written to family and friends, reveals the life and times of Ivy Rowe, as she grows from girlhood to old age, finds love, dreams great visions, and raises a family. A remarkable portrait of a time, a place, and a person. Check the Catalog
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THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
Date: October 13, 2010
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
With the publication of this first novel, Carson McCullers became a literary sensation. A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work. Check the Catalog