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Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime that Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England

October 21st, 2024 · Comments Off on Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime that Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

For October our Brown Bag Book Club will be reading and discussing Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime that Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England by Avree Kelly Clark. In 1874, a schoolteacher is discovered mutilated in the woods in the village of St. Albans, Vermont. A year later, news arrives of a […]

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Lord of the Flies

October 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on Lord of the Flies · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Hybrid Programs, Main Branch, News

Join us on Wednesday evening for our book discussion on the literary classic, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. For help locating a copy of the book or for more information please contact the Information Desk at 603-624-6550 ext. 7620. See you at the book discussion!

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How the Post Office Saved America

September 27th, 2023 · Comments Off on How the Post Office Saved America · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor.

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Wake Up With a Purpose!

September 21st, 2023 · Comments Off on Wake Up With a Purpose! · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News

Wake Up with a Purpose: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years. We hope you’ll join us for this upcoming book discussion as we kick off a new book discussion season. We welcome old and new members to our book clubs so feel free to join us. For more information or help locating a […]

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Klara and the Sun

March 16th, 2023 · Comments Off on Klara and the Sun · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Hybrid Programs, Main Branch, News

Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.

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Thursday Evening Book Discussion

August 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on Thursday Evening Book Discussion · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News

Ta Da! here are the books that our Thursday evening book group has selected to read and discuss this year.

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Brown Bag Book Club 2019/2020

July 29th, 2019 · Comments Off on Brown Bag Book Club 2019/2020 · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

Everyone is welcome to join the book club, whether it is for the whole year or for one or two meetings.

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Book Discussion – A Gentleman in Moscow

October 30th, 2018 · Comments Off on Book Discussion – A Gentleman in Moscow · Book Group, Books, City Library, E-Books, Events, Main Branch, News, Trustees

Our Thursday evening book discussion group will be meeting to discuss ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles. In this novel Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by the Bolsheviks to house arrest in a grand hotel in early 20th century Moscow. “When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the […]

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Brown Bag Book Club

August 2nd, 2018 · Comments Off on Brown Bag Book Club · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Newsletter, Trustees

Bring your lunch – dessert is on us!

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Book Discussion Schedule now Online!

December 11th, 2017 · Comments Off on Book Discussion Schedule now Online! · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, Uncategorized

What are you reading this month? Why not join fellow Manchester patrons in a book discussion group? On January 11, 2018, at 7:00 PM, in the Hunt Room, the Thursday Book Discussion group will meet to discuss Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. It’s a story of a runaway slave on her dangerous path to freedom, […]

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