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Happy New Year! Join one of our many book discussion groups for some entertainment and great conversation!

The Romantic Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on January 8, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. inside the library and on Zoom. Contact Janette Pardo at pardoj@waynepubliclibrary.org for more information and an invite.

George and Lizzie: A Novel

NANCY PEARL · Touchstone Books
Format: Hardcover

" A]n homage to true love, painful childhood experiences, and emotional scars that last a lifetime. It's a story of forgiveness, especially for one's self... . Extraordinary. " --The Washington Post From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes...
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The Cozy Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on January 10, 2025 @ 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room. Any questions please contact Karen Wronko at 973-694-4272 X 5401.

 

Dirty Thirty

Janet Evanovich · ‎Atria Books
Format: Book

Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Plover wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune...

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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet in person on January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 p.m. Contact Patty Slezak at slezakp@waynepubliclibrary.org for more information and an invite.

 

The Maid: A Novel

Nita Prose · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating...
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The Page Turners Discussion Group will meet on January 15, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. inside the library and on Zoom. Contact Janette Pardo at pardoj@waynepubliclibrary.org for more information and an invite.

Oriana: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci

Anastasia Rubis · Delphinium
Format: Hardcover

When a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana Fallaci at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret.Oriana was born a rebel. She fought beside her father at age fourteen in Italy's Resistance...
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The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on January 22, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m. on Zoom. Contact Nick Bastean at basteann@waynepubliclibrary.org for more information and an invite.

 

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on January 27, 2025 @ 6:15 p.m. on Zoom. Any questions please contact Eleana Cordova at 973-694-4272 X 5406

The House of Lincoln

Nancy Horan · Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Book

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker...

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