Literary Elements
February 2017
Programs
WBPL Writer's Club               
Tuesday, February 14, 1:30-3 pm
Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Registration is underway. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal.
Let's Talk about Books 
Thursday, February 23, 1:30-3:30 pm 
The West Babylon Literary Club will meet to discuss The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow. Registration is underway.
Books and Bites 
Monday, February 27, 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 Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah. 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. Registration is underway. Newcomers are welcome! 
February Table Display:
Meet the Girl of Your Dreams 
The Girl who Chased the Moon
by Sarah Addison Allen

Moving in with the grandfather she never knew after the death of her mother, 17-year-old Emily witnesses bizarre supernatural activities in her new North Carolina community while befriending its remarkable residents. 
The Forgotten Girls
by Sara Blædel

After the discovery of a body in the forest, the new director of the Danish Missing Persons Department recognizes the dead woman as a child inmate at a state mental institution and uncovers links to her own past during the investigation.
The Girl with all the Gifts
by Mike Carey

A little girl who is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world.
The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies

At the height of World War II, an unexpected and forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, who works in a local pub, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German soldier at a nearby POW camp, who questions what he has been fighting for.
The Girl who Came Home
by Hazel Gaynor

After the death of her father, Grace Butler, struggling with what comes next, unexpectedly finds a new direction in life when her Great Nana Maggie shares a painful secret she has harbored for almost a lifetime about the RMS Titanic.
The Girl in the Red Coat 
by Kate Hamer

Despite being told by the authorities that she might be gone for good, a newly single mom embarks on a harrowing journey to find her daughter, who went missing during a local outdoor festival.
Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll

Grooming herself for an ideal life involving a successful career and a happy marriage, a rising young journalist confronts a violent episode from her past that threatens to unravel everything she has worked to achieve.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
by Eimear McBride

Describes a young girl's relationship with her brain tumor-stricken brother and their struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the face of chaos at home.
The Girl Before
by Rena Olsen

When a home invasion tears her away from her family while her husband warns her to say nothing, Clara Lawson reflects on her complicated past and shattered present as she adjusts to life in an institution where she is called an unfamiliar name by people who claim her husband has committed terrible crimes.
Girl in the Dark
by Marion Pauw

When she discovers that she has a brother named Ray who is autistic and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter, single mother and lawyer Iris, while getting to know her sibling, works hard to find the truth and clear the name of this man who is unable to communicate like the rest of us. 
An Irish Country Girl
by Patrick Taylor

The author of An Irish Country Doctor offers a story of the early life of his beloved character Kinky Kincaid, who was once known as Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's daughter growing up in the hills and glens of 1920s County Cork, Ireland, who had a gift for seeing fairies, spirits and the dreaded Banshee.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland

Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
Girls on Fire
by Robin Wasserman

When a popular high school athlete commits suicide amid rumors of local satanic worship in a 1990s Pennsylvania community, an unlikely friendship between a lonely misfit and a pop-culture rebel leads both to a feverish downward spiral of high risk and dangerous secrets.
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