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Join Cindi and discuss books from a variety of genres

at 7 pm, the first Monday of each month. 

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Paperback)

By David Mitchell
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812976366
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2/2011
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Monday, March 5, 7:00pm
 
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.
 

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)

By Nicholas Carr
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780393339758
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 6/2011
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Monday, April 2, 7:00pm
 
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
 

Mudbound (Paperback)

By Hillary Jordan
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126770
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 3/2009
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Monday, May 7, 7:00pm
 
This prize-winning novel is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.
 

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Paperback)

By Tom Franklin
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060594671
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 6/2011
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Monday, June 4, 7:00pm
 
In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged.
 

The Hunger Games (Paperback)

By Suzanne Collins
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780439023528
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Published: Scholastic Press, 7/2010
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Monday, July 2, 7:00pm
 
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
 

To Kill a Mockingbird (Mass Market Paperback)

By Harper Lee
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780446310789
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 1/1988
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Monday, August 6, 7:00pm
 
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
 
Monday, September 10, 7:00pm
(please note that the meeting has been postponed one week since the first Monday lands on Labor Day)
 
VOTING MONTH!
 
Everyone welcome! Bring your suggestions and we will decide our books selections for 2013.
 

Caleb's Crossing (Hardcover)

By Geraldine Brooks
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021048
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Published: Viking Adult, 5/2011
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Monday, October 1, 7:00pm
 
The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other.
 

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307408846
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Published: Crown, 5/2011
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Monday, November 5, 7:00pm
 
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
 

The Night Circus (Hardcover)

By Erin Morgenstern
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780385534635
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Published: Doubleday, 9/2011
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Monday, December 3, 7:00pm
 
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.