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The Romantic Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on May 1, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. 
Come join us and meet author Lisa Verge Higgins! She will discuss her writing and several of her books!
Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on May 1, 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 Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Daniel Stone · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment....
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The Preakness Page Turners Discussion Group will meet on May 8, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

All Fall Down: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her "best book yet" (Philadelphia Inquirer), a "compulsively readable" novel that shows "there's no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well" (The New York Times Book Review).Allison...
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The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on May 10, 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.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte?

"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of E
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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on May 14, 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.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote · Vintage Books
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman...
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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on May 15, 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.

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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on May 20, 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

The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based...
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