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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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Brown Bag Book Club – “Did You Ever Have a Family”

March 24th, 2017 · Comments Off on Brown Bag Book Club – “Did You Ever Have a Family” · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Trustees

This month the Brown Bag Book Club will be discussing “Did You Ever Have a Family” by Bill Clegg.

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Brown Bag Book Club rescheduled!

January 25th, 2017 · Comments Off on Brown Bag Book Club rescheduled! · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News

January’s Brown Bag Book Club meeting has been rescheduled to February 7th.

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Pearl That Broke Its Shell

August 20th, 2016 · Comments Off on Pearl That Broke Its Shell · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

To start the reading year off, our Thursday evening book group will be reading Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi.

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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search For The Happiest Places in The World

February 16th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search For The Happiest Places in The World · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

“Either way, an important ingredient in the good life, the happy life, is connecting to something larger than ourselves…” (page 110)

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Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

February 1st, 2016 · Comments Off on Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News

Our Thursday evening book group will be reading ‘Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq’ by Kirsten Holmstedt.

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‘Orphan Train’ by Christina Baker Kline

May 5th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, NH Room, Trustees

This is the last Thursday evening book discussion for the summer.

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Book Discussion cancelled due to weather

February 12th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Uncategorized

Tonight’s book discussion on The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, has been cancelled due to inclement weather.

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Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

March 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson · Book Group, Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch

“I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, […]

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