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             Join one of our many QPL Book Clubs reading 

      Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel this month!

From the publisher:

"Station Eleven is an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it."

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All Over the Page | October 9th at 7pm

Meet at County Market on 48th Street

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

 

 
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Bookies |October 3rd at 1:30pm

Meet in QPL’s Small Conference Room

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

 
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Literary Angels | October 16th at 1:30pm 

Meet in QPL’s Small Conference Room

The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.

 

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Pardon Our Youth | October 15th at 6pm 

Meet in QPL’s Small Conference Room

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

 
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Renaissance Readers | October 9th at 10:15am 

Meet in QPL’s Small Conference Room

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

 
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Unshelved | October 10th at 1pm 

Meet in QPL’s Small Conference Room

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

 

 
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Candid Conversations 

October 20th at 10:15am

Topic: Penn & Teller --Stranger Danger

(Season 6, episode 8)

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Socrates Café

October 12th at 10:15am

Topic: Lies, Liars, and Lying: the Art of Deception