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The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on September 5, 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 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
Format: Book

A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary mans unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war. --Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author whos been called an up and coming Ken Follett. BooklistIn 1942 Paris, gifted architect...
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The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on September 14, 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 Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett · Vintage Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammetts most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.,
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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on September 18, 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.

Amy and Isabelle

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on September 24, 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

Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From one of America's most important writers, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.

Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University,...
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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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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on October 17, 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.
No September Meeting

Marker

Robin Cook · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Investigating a series of deaths that have taken place among seemingly healthy young people after routine surgeries, doctors Montgomery and Stapleton confront institutional politics that prevent them from proving that the deaths were intentional.
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