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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Klara and the Sun
March 16th, 2023 · No Comments · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Hybrid Programs, Main Branch, News
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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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Book Discussion 2017-2018 reading list
July 21st, 2017 · Comments Off on Book Discussion 2017-2018 reading list · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Trustees
Everyone is welcome to join, or you can “read along” on your own if you can’t make the meetings.
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The Orchardist
April 28th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch
You belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.
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Nobody’s Fool – Book Discussion
April 20th, 2017 · Comments Off on Nobody’s Fool – Book Discussion · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch
Follow the exploits of one of the unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for 50 years.
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