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The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on March 6, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Padden at 973-694-4272 X 5410.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt - it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that...
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The Romantic Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on March 6, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

As Bright as Heaven

Susan Meissner

From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city
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The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on March 8, 2019 @ 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 tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark

William Shakespeare · Blackstone Audio, 2015.
Format: eAudiobook

When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College in 1982, he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet. Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua not only completed...
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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on March 12, 2019 @ 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Patty Slezak at 973-694-4272 X 5416.

 

Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A picturesque village just north of the U.S. border. A place where neighbors greet each other, where visitors feel right at home, and where the truth hides behind closed doors...Enter the world of Three Pines-and discover why Louise Penny is the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling...
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The Preakness Page Turners Discussion Group will meet on March 13, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

The Rent Collector

Camron Wright · Shadow Mountain; First edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on March 18, 2019 @ 6:15 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Eleana Cordova at 973-694-4272 X 5406

Lucky boy : a novel

Shanthi Sekaran · Books on Tape
Format: Audiobook

"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across...
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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on March 20, 2019 @ 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.

Talking God

Tony Hillerman

Tribal police officer Jim Chee and detective Lt. Joe Leaphorn find themselves working side by side again when Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk is arrested for robbing Native American graves--and possibly for murder
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