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Even More Summer Reading:
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July 2013
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 Rain, shine or heat wave, our Friday evenings have been incredibly special with music! This Friday, 7/26, will be our last music evening of the summer.
Harpist Loretta O'Driscoll will entertain us. Comfort Food Kitchen our wonderful neighbor, is providing complimentary wine and noshes. Join us!  Scrabble Night PartyWe're winding up our Scrabble Summer with a Party on Wed, July 31st, 5-8pm. Activities for the kids, raffle for our Watchung Plaza Scavenger Hunt participants and... because of our Scrabble Nights were so popular, we'll set up table for a Family/Neighbor Scrabble Night Extravaganza! Can't wait to see you! And the Summer is rolling along. Have your kids been writing  away? We're calling for submissions for our Young Writers' Zine, Write It!, showcasing work of our youngsters grades 4-12. For more info. Hey - we're on the Silver Screen, well not really. But Margot is interviewed on TV by Robin Woods talking about Summer Reads on Channel 34s' Robin's Nest. Catch the interview on Channel 34 or view here. Summer is a wonderful time for people to explore new books. We're having a great time recommending books we've read, passing on customer reviews, and helping you discover something new outside of your regular algorithm. If you're exploring your books digitally, don't forget that you can download eBooks through our KOBO program. We have KOBO eReaders available, or you can download onto any of your own devices. More info here.Enjoy! Margot, Nicole, Carolyn, Marina, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne
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Carol Rifka Brunt
"A fresh yet nostalgic debut novel about a 1980s teen who loses a beloved uncle to AIDS but finds herself by befriending his grieving boyfriend. Filled with lost opportunities and second chances, Tell the Wolves I'm Home delivers wisdom, innocence and originality with surprising sweetness. Its cast of waifs and strays will steal your heart as they show each other the way to redemption." - Shelf Awareness Paperback and eBook
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John Banville
Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love-an underage affair with his best friend's mother. "An adolescent love story comparable with Turgenev's great novella First Love. Seamless, profound . . . it is an unsettling and beautiful work."
-The Wall Street Journal
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
 My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.
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 HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible - until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history. "Brings a raw truth to an extraordinary act of resistance...A literary tour de force...A gripping novel that brings us closer to history as it really happened."-Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review
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Jo Ann Beard
 The first meeting of a new Book Group: Memoir Reading Group with Louise DeSalvo.
This book club will meet every 6 weeks on Tuesday evening.
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Sam Toperoff
 "I never knew how love like this worked, the kind that jumps the tracks but just keeps barreling onward...'til Sam Toperoff yanked me aboard, sat me next to Dash and Lill and took us hurtling through Hollywood, down Broadway, across two wars, a political witch hunt and mid-20th-century America, spellbound and hell-bound for human truth." -Gary Smith, writer, Sports Illustrated
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Jo Nesbo
"It is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. . . . [Nesbø is] a terrific writer who knows how to build a story, taking you slowly to the top of a rollercoaster before sending you hurtling towards a solution that you never see coming." -Scottish Express
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Thomas Van Essen
"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot... The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." - The Guardian (UK) Paperback and eBook |
Whitney Otto
 A profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and events that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. Inspired by the work of Imogen Cunningham, Madame Yevonde, Tina Modotti, Grete Stern, Lee Miller, Ruth Orkin, and others, author Whitney Otto weaves together eight stories, crisscrossing the world and a century to portray the tensions that defined the lives of female artists. Paperback and
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In-House Book Groups
All are welcome. 7:00pm
No registration required for the adult book groups If the book appeals to you, and you've read it, come and join us.
Great Writers with Marina Cramer
Beam Me Up Science Fiction with Eileen Duffy
Fri, Aug 9, Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Fri, Sep 20, All Men of Genius, Lev AC Rosen
Memoir Reading Group with Louise DeSalvo
Tues, Sep 3, The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard
History Book Club with Joe Parana.
Mon, Sept 23, Country of Vast Designs, Robert W. Merry
Salon Espanol with Marisela Santiago
Fri, Oct 18, Noticias de un Secuestro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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