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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, March 17th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C The magician's lie : a novel by Greer MacallisterWhen a notorious female illusionist uses a fire ax to saw a man in half in front of policeman Virgil Holt, the subsequent discovery of a dead body leads to an interrogation and an unbelievable, spellbinding story. |
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Tuesday, April 14th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C All the light we cannot see by Anthony DoerrA blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. |
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Mysterious Mornings
Love a good mystery? Always looking for a new book because you've read EVERYTHING by your favorite author? Or do you just really enjoy reading mysteries? come and join our Mysterious Morning discussions!
Every other month we'll discuss a different sub-genre of mysteries. Pick a book from an author you haven't read already and tell the group all about it. There's only one big rule -- don't tell us how it ends!
A list of suggested authors and titles are available at the Bridgewater Library and books will be on display about a month prior to the discussion. (If you're a voracious mystery reader you can read more than one.)
March's Mystery Type: Cozy Mysteries Wednesday, March 11th 9:30am - 11:30am |
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Downton Abbey Book Discussion Group
This book discussion group was established in 2013, meets bi-monthly, and has become quite popular with readers and followers of Downton Abbey. We have explored the program's companion books and nonfiction about the Edwardian Age. Come join the fun to discuss the following books as well as the upcoming events in Season Five. Tea will be served!
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Thursday, March 19th at 3:00pm The remains of the day by Kazuo IshiguroAn English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity |
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Life Reinvention Book Discussion Group
Join us for our newly formed Life Reinvention Book Discussion Group to be held bi-monthly through 2015.
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Wednesday, February 25th at 7:00pm Your life calling : reimagining the rest of your life by Jane PauleyFilled with real-life stories, the beloved broadcast journalist and the host of the award-winning "Your Life Calling" segment on the Today show offers practical ideas, inspiration and motivation for people over 50 longing for "something different" or "something more." |
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Tuesday, April 21st at 7:00pm |
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Writer's Discussion Group
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Wednesday, April 29th at 7:00pm White is for witching by Helen OyeyemiSuffering an acute form of pica throughout her youth that is exacerbated by her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Miranda helps to run the family bed-and-breakfast while witnessing her community's hostilities toward outsiders, a malice that erupts in violent and destructive ways. |
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Thursday, February 28th at 3:30pm Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan CainA former Wall Street attorney, business coach and creator of ThePowerofIntroverts.com demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in today's culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples to counsel readers on how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations and empower introverted children. |
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Thursday, April 23rd at 3:30pm |
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Tuesday, February 24th at 7:30pm The headmaster's wife by Thomas Christopher GreeneFound mentally altered in Central Park, the headmaster of an elite boarding school imparts a story that is shaped by complicated memories, the evolution of a loving relationship and a tragedy he cannot comprehend. |
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Perspectives Book Discussion Group
Join us for our new monthly book discussion group where we will be focusing on biographies, memoirs, and other works of nonfiction that illuminate the human experience.
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Thursday, February 26th at 7:00pm Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. EllisAn illuminating analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington and explains how their encounters transformed their era and shaped the history of the United States. |
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A Good Yarn
Bring yarn and needles and join us to discuss a book while knitting!
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Tuesday, February 3rd at 7:00pm Cyrano de Bergerac : a heroic comedy in five acts by Edmond RostandTranslates the classic French story of the master swordsman, noble in stature, whose unpleasant appearance prevents him from courting the beautiful woman with whom he has fallen in love. |
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Thursday, February 12th at 1:00pm Persuasion by Jane AustenAt twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. |
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Thursday, February 19th at 7:15pm Defending Jacob : a novel by William LandayWhen his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son |
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Thursday, March 12th at 1:00pm Still life with bread crumbs : a novel by Anna QuindlenAbandoning her expensive world to move to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career and self-understanding. |
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Thursday, March 12th at 7:15pm To kill a mockingbird by Harper LeeThe explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape |
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Peapack-Gladstone Library
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Tuesday, February 17th at 7:30pm George Washington's secret six : The Spy Ring That Saved America by Brian KilmeadeShares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes |
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Wednesday, March 18th at 7:30pm The ship of brides : a novel by Jojo Moyes"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England-aboard HMS Victoria, whichstill carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted - forever" |
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Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30pm The Martian : a novel by Andy WeirStranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways. |
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Wednesday, May 20th at 7:30pm Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel by Carol Rifka BruntHer world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship |
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Wednesday, March 4th at 2:15pm
Meeting at the Senior Citizens Housing, 1 Mountain Avenue: Directly across the road from the Somerville Library The great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale set in the Roaring Twenties. |
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Wednesday, April 1st at 2:15pm
Meeting at the Senior Citizens Housing, 1 Mountain Avenue: Directly across the road from the Somerville Library My sister's keeper : a novel by Jodi PicoultConceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body |
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Thursday, February 12th at 1:30pm After I'm gone by Laura LippmanWorking a 26-year-old cold case involving the murder of a convicted felon's mistress, retired Baltimore detective Roberto Sanchez becomes tangled up in a web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed that spans 30 years and connects five women whose lives will never be the same once the truth is exposed. |
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Wednesday, February 25th at 7:15pm |
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Thursday, March 12th at 1:30pm Longbourn by Jo BakerA reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the romance, intrigue and drama of the Bennet household from the sideline perspective of Sara, an orphaned housemaid who becomes subject to the arrival of the militia and the attentions of an ambitious former slave. |
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Book Discussion: Wednesday, March 25th at 7:15pm Movie Showing & Discussion: Wednesday, April 1st at 6pm Lolita by Vladīmir Vladimirovich NabokovA novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him |
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Tasty Bites and Books
Bring a bag lunch and share your thoughts on the books you've read.
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Monday, February 23rd at Noon The Museum of Extraordinary Things : a novel by Alice HoffmanThe daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. |
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Monday, March 16th at Noon July, July by Tim O'Brien"At the thirtieth reunion of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends join their classmates for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and abandoned. July, July tells the heart-rending and often hilarious story of a group of men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals and innocence began to fade. Their lives will ring familiar to anyone who has dreamed big dreams, suffered disappointment, and still struggled toward a happy ending. Winner of the National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien once again strikes at the emotional center of our lives. With humor and a sense of wistful hope, July, July speaks directly to our American character and to our resilience. " |
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Monday, March 9th at 11:00am The light between oceans : a novel by M. L. StedmanMoving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore only to witness a rift in their marriage that is further complicated by a search by the baby's desperate mother. |
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Thursday, February 12th at 7:00pm Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA new novel by the author of Purple Hibiscus dramatically re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war. |
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Thursday, March 12th at 7:00pm Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel by Maria SempleWhen her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her. |
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Social Action Book Club
Books may be borrowed from the library by contacting Anne Mellen by email (amellen@hotmail.com) or going to the library main desk.
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