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Cookbook Sale! August 4 through August 16 Here is your chance to stock up on some great cookbooks at a great price. From Monday August 4 through Saturday August 16, we will be stocking our lobby shelves with hundreds of titles at just $2.00 each. Healthy recipes, ethnic cuisine, slow-cooker recipes, classic books by acclaimed chefs: we have something for everyone. Come early, come often - we will replenish our shelves every day.
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Literary Elements Wrap-UpThere is still time to enter our adult summer reading contest. We will accept entries through Friday, August 8 at 5:00 p.m. On Monday, August 11, we will draw our two grand prize winners. That Kindle Fire could be yours! Submit your entry online.
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Banned Books Discussion Tuesday August 12 at 7:00 p.m.The banning of John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath was the impetus for the creation of the Library Bill of Rights. Join our discussion of this controversial book as part of our year-long series, A Year of Reading Dangerously. Details at the Coffee Tea and Classics web page.
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Book Forum Wednesday August 20 at 1:30 p.m. The book club with no assigned reading. Share light refreshments and talk about whatever you have been reading lately.
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Film Screening: Joe Thursday August 21 at 7:00 p.m. David Gordon Green's Joe stars Nicolas Cage as the title character, the foreman of a work crew hired to poison trees before they are cleared from land owned by people who plan to develop it. One day, 15-year-old Gary (Tye Sheridan) arrives at the worksite looking for a job for both himself and his alcoholic, shiftless father. Joe hires them both, but the self-destructive dad is quickly told never to return. Gary, however, earns his keep, and soon he begins to think of Joe as a father figure. However, Joe has a prison record, and a problem keeping his explosive anger in check, and when a local man develops a grudge against him, both Gary and Joe must take a stand. Rated R; 117 minutes.
The public is invited to stay for a brief discussion after the film. All films in this series are recommended for adults. For more information, call the library at 908-454-3712. Partial funding is provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission Movie License # 196808001
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Happy Bookers Discussion Wednesday August 27 at 7:00 p.m.Come discuss Orphan Train by Christian Baker Kline. Close to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past. Publishers Weekly called it a “heartfelt page turner,” while Kirkus described it as a “dramatic, emotional story from a neglected corner of American history.” We have multiple copies of the book available. Reserve online or ask at the desk.
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The collector
by Nora Roberts
Witnessing an apparent murder-suicide during a job, professional house-sitter Lila Emerson is recruited by the alleged perpetrator's brother, talented artist Ashton Archer, to help uncover what really happened. Selected by Barbara, technical services staff.
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Shirley : a novel
by Susan Scarf Merrell
I really enjoyed this psychological suspense story featuring novelist Shirley Jackson as a central character. It is a very clever homage to Jackson that makes me want to read her works again. The unreliable narrator is straight out of Jackson: intense, vulnerable, and neurotic . I loved the portrayal of that time and place (Bennington College in the Madmen-era sixties), and loved the portrayal of thorny Shirley. The author weaves in Jacksonian phrases and motifs with great skill. This is a must-read for Jackson fans and a good read for anyone else. Selected by Deb Messling, reference librarian.
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The Ghost Hunters
by Neil Spring
The year is 1926 and Sarah Grey has landed herself an unlikely new job – personal assistant to Harry Price, London’s most infamous ghost hunter. Equal parts brilliant and charming, neurotic and manipulative, Harry has devoted his life to exposing the truth behind England’s many ‘false hauntings’, and never has he left a case unsolved, nor a fraud unexposed. So when Harry and Sarah are invited to Borley Rectory – a house so haunted that objects frequently fly through the air unbidden, and locals avoid the grounds for fear of facing the spectral nun that walks there – they’re sure that this case will be just like any other. Selected by Maureen, circulation staff.
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Power play
by Catherine Coulter
In the wake of attempts made on the life of a U.S. ambassador over wrongful accusations about her role in her fiancé's death, Lacey Sherlock survives a drive-by shooting before learning that psychopath Blessed Backman has escaped from his mental hospital. By the best-selling author of The Cove. Selected by Valerie, circulation staff.
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