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Wayne Public Library's Preakness Branch

Book Discussion with local author Annette Cass Landis

"The Triad Tree"

August 8, 2018 @ 2:00 PM - Preakness Branch Library

Copies of the book are available at the Preakness Branch Library

 

The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on August 10, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Padden at 973-694-4272 X 5410.
 

the painted Veil

Somerset Maugham · sound Library
Format: Audio CD

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, " The Painted Veil" is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the status she fought so hard...

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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on August 14, 2018 @ 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Patty Slezak at 973-694-4272 X 5416.
 

The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #12)

P. D. James · Alfred A. Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally...
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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on August 15, 2018 @ 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Zerbe or Deborah Rosenblatt at 973-694-4272 X 5401.

Letter From Home

Carolyn G Hart · Berkley Prime
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1944, Gretchen Gilman was working as a reporter at the local newspaper. Her assignments weren't very exciting, but it was a good opportunity for a young woman with talent and ambition to spare. That summer everyone was talking about Faye Tatum, who was found dead in her own living...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on August 20, 2018 @ 6:15 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Eleana Cordova at 973-694-4272 X 5406

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel

James McBride · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden SmithA Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearWinner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling...
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The Romantic Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on September 5, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X207.

The Paris Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." -- Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming...
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The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on September 14, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Padden at 973-694-4272 X 5410.
 

Ghost: Investigating the Other Side

Katherine M Ramsland
Format: Hardcover

With the same open and personal style that won her much praise for Piercing the Darkness, Katherine Ramsland turns her keen and curious eye to the phenomena of ghosts to uncover the truth behind a number of supernatural "sightings". Written in the bold tradition of pa

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The Preakness Page Turners Discussion Group will meet on September 26, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X207.

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · The Dial Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

"A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget." - Richard Russo

Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent...
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