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The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on July 3, 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.

 

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

ALAN LIGHTMAN · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.As...
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The Summer Knit/Crochet-A-Long Book Talk will meet on July 10, 2019 @ 2:30 p.m. in the library Board Room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Karen Sharp at 973-694-4272 X 5410. Anyone interested is welcome to attend! 

 

Casting Off

Nicole R. Dickson · Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition
Format: Audio CD

On a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, the fishermen’s hand-made sweaters tell a story. Each is unique — feelings stitched into rows, memories into patterns. It is here that Rebecca Moray comes to research a book on Irish knitting. With her daughter, Rowan, accompanying...
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The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on July 12, 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 book to be discussed is McTeague by Frank Norris
"McTeague chronicles the demise of a charlatan and his wife as they descend into a web of moral corruption." (Alfred Kazin).

The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on July 16, 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.

 

Nowhere to Run

C. J. Box · Center Point Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something...
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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on July 17, 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.

Two Kinds of Truth

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 513
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn Amazon Book of the MonthHarry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on July 22, 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 Passion of Dolssa

Julie Gardner Berry · Viking
Pages: 478
Format: Print book

"I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. "Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover...
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