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Join us on Thursday, February 16, when Kathryn Hill leads our discussion of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto from 7:00 to 9:00 pmSomewhere in South America, American soprano Roxanne Coss is just finishing her recital in the Vice president's home when terrorists arrive, holding the international business people and diplomats hostage. Captors and their prisoners settle into a routine, with the opera diva

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Join us when Carolyn Smith leads our discussion of Yoko Ogawa's THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR at 7pm.First published in Japanese in 2003, this gem won the prestigious 2004 Yomiuri Prize and in 2006 was adapted for film (The Professor's Beloved Equation). The story evolves around a young housekeeper and her ten-year-old son, who have an esoteric link to a retired university professor through "

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No books to read in December! But, we will still get together to recommend books: current hits, overlooked gems, classics to revisit---anything goes. And, of course, there will be cookies ;)

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Join us on Thursday, November 17th, 7-9pm, when Kathleen Wakefield, a published poet and library staff member, will help us explore the world of poetry -- literally. She will prepare a handout of international poetry from Japan to Poland and Ireland (and other countries) for us to read and discuss. You can pick up a copy at the check-out desk anytime after October 20th.

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Join us at 7pm on Thursday, October 20th, when Nancy Thomas leads our discussion on Tracy Chevalier's REMARKABLE CREATURES.This is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent for finding fossils, and whose discovery of ancient marine reptiles such as that ichthyosaur shakes the scientific community and leads to new ways of thinking about the creation of the world.In danger of being an outcast in

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Join us on Thursday, September 15, at 7PM when we discuss David Michaelis's acclaimed biography of cartonnist Charles Schulz. Title: SHULZ AND PEANUTS. Describing "the obvious-but-brilliant Chip Kidd-designed cover" and observing that "everyone, it seems, feels a personal connection to Peanuts", Michaelis's biography "parses Schulz's particular combination of Midwestern reserve and steely

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In September, Rosemary and George Irwin will lead our discussion on Alan Alda's hugely popular autobiography NEVER HAVE YOUR DOG STUFFED. Meet us at 7PM, August 18, 2011 in the Ruth Braman Room. Remember....we ALWAYS have refreshments!"While listening to Alda's colorful and often poignant recollections, it becomes clear that, in addition to being a consummate actor, he is an introspective

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Join us on Thursday, July 21st at 7pm for our discussion of J.R. Moehringer's THE TENDER BAR."Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with

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Join us at 7pm on Thursday, June 16, when long time book discussion participant, Gerry Maurer, leads our discussion of Kathryn Stockett's runaway best-seller (and now a motion picture) THE HELP.Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her

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Join us on Thursday, May 19, from 7-9PM, when Camille DelVecchio leads us in our discussion of Elizabeth Strout's OLIVE KITTERIDGE.Covering a period of 30-odd years, most of the stories (several of which were previously published in the New Yorker and other magazines) feature Olive as their focus, but in some she is a bit player or even a footnote while other characters take center stage to sort

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Join us on Thursday evening, April 21, 2011 at 7PM when Ernie Orlando, long time book discussion participant, leads us in our discussion of DELTA WEDDING by Eudora Welty.Critically acclaimed for her short stories, Welty presents a novel of a September wedding in Mississippi in the 20's, at Shellmound, homeplace of the Fairchilds, determinedly independent within their close-woven family pattern...

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Join us Thursday, February 17 from 7:00—9:00 p.m. when Carolyn Smith leads our discussion of Little Bee by Chris CleaveAll you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free

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Join us on Thursday, January 20, 2011 from 7:00—9:00 p.m. Our topic: We will discuss selected poems of William Stafford with a little help from our friend and poet, Kathleen Wakefield. Poems will be available at the circulation desk after December 16.

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Join us on Thursday, November 18, from 7:00- 9:00PM, when Camille DelVecchio leads us in our discussion of "Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared DiamondThis New York Times bestseller answers the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples.

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Join us on October 21, 2010 from 7-9PM when Kathryn Hill leads us in our discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic,"Brideshead Revisited"In this classic tale of British life between the World Wars, Waugh parts company with the satire of his earlier works to examine affairs of the heart. Charles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead, the family seat of Lord and Lady Marchmain. Exhausted by the

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Join us on Thursday, September 16th, from 7-9PM when Gerri Maurer leads us in our discussion of Pearl S. Buck's classic THE GOOD EARTH.The Good Earth was published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. The book was an influential factor in Buck winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (

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Join us on Thursday evening, August 19, from 7-9pm when Ellen Skeels leads us in our discussion of Julia Glass' THREE JUNES. “This…début novel is a triptych that spans three summers, across a decade, in the disparate lives of the McLeod family. The widowed father, a newspaper publisher who maintains the family manse in Scotland, is chary, dogged, and deceptively mild. Fenno, the eldest son,

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Join us on Thursday, July 15, from 7:00– 9:00 p.m. when Ernie Orlando leads us in our discussion of Markus Zusak's acclaimed novel, THE BOOK THIEF.Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With

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Join us on Thursday, June 17 from 7:00– 9:00 PM when Claudia Brent leads our discussion of Bill Bryson's delightful A WALK IN THE WOODS."Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Iowa native Bryson decided to reconnect with his mother country by hiking the length of the 2100-mile Appalachian Trail. Awed by merely the camping section of his local sporting goods store, he nevertheless

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Join us on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 7pm when long-time book discussion participant, Jennifer Anderson, leads us in our discussion of ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION: USING THE MYSTERIES OF AUTISM TO DECODE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR by Temple Grandin. “Temple Grandin has been known to crawl through slaughterhouses to get a sense of what the animals there are experiencing. An autistic woman who as a

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Join us on Thursday evening, April 15, at 7pm, when Kathryn Hill and Linda Gordon lead us in our discussion of THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar.Told in a series of flashbacks and present day encounters, Thrity Umrigar's novel about Sera, wealthy woman and her servant, Bhima, offers a revealing look at class and gender roles in modern day Bombay. As time goes on, we learn that Sera and her

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Join us, Thursday, March 18, 2010 from 7-9pm when Book Discussion Charter Member, Mary Ellen Collinge, leads us in our discussion of Barbara Kingslover's ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE"Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. This field - local food and sustainable agriculture - is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest

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Join us in The Ruth Braman Room on February 18, 2010, 7-9pm, when former Penfield Public Library director, Carolyn Smith, leads our discussion of THE OUTLANDER by Gil Adamson.The details of Mary Boulton's pioneer life are revealed as she struggles to evade her brothers-in-law, who track her like prey across Western Canada in retaliation for her killing of their kin. Her solo journey embodies the

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Join us on Thursday, January 21st from 7:00—9:00 p.m. for our discussion of THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London. This classic is part of the winter BIG READ event sponsored by the Monroe County Library System.Adult Services Librarian, Camille DelVecchio will lead us in our discussion of this story of a dog named Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life

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On Thursday evening, November 19th from 7:00—9:00 PM, Carolyn Smith, former director of the Penfield Pulblic Library, will lead us in a discussion of THE DOUBLE BIND by Chris Bohjalian. In The Double Bind, a literary thriller with references to (and including characters from) The Great Gatsby, Chris Bohjalian takes readers on a journey through one woman's obsession with

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In October, we have a special treat for the community. In addition to our regular monthly book discussion, we will host several other events in collaboration with the 2009 Big Read community program featuring STORIES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, granted to Writers & Books by the National Endowment for the Arts.Tuesday, October 6, poet Kathleen Wakefield will present the Big Read book from 7:30-8

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Join us on Thursday, September 17, from 7-9pm when Jennifer Anderson leads our discussion of AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton."Wharton's genius lies in offering the pleasure of a romance, then engaging the reader in a stunning exploration of boundaries etween the demands of society and personal freedom, illicit passion and moral responsibility."--Maureen Howard

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Join us on June 18 at 7pm when regular participant, Gerri Maurer, leads us in a lively discussion of Paul Coelho's THE ALCHEMIST.The tale of Santiago , a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to

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Join us on Thursday, May 21 at 7pm when Adult Services Librarian, Camille DelVecchio, will lead our discussion of Geraldine Brooks' PEOPLE OF THE BOOK."One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks has turned the

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Join us on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. for a discussion of Manil Suri's Death of Vishnu. Regular book discussion participant, Robyn Miller will lead our discussion.Something about the book: "Vishnu is lost in memories. Drifting through increasingly vivid scenes from his past, he recalls his relatively rare snatches of love and joy... On one particular day...he stole one

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On Thursday. March 19 from 7:00- 9:00pm, we will discussion WICKED by Gregory Maguire. Our leader will be long-time discussion participant, Jennifer Anderson. About WICKED: "Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying and,

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Join us February 19th when Kathryn Hill leads our discussion on Mary Shelley's classic FRANKENSTEIN. 7:00—9:00 p.m. Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque,

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On Thursday, October 18, at 7pm, Kathleen Wakefield will lead us in a discussion of Mary Oliver's poetry. Read White Pine: A Collection of Poems and join us. Copies of White Pine are available in the library. Mary Oliver is one our nation's great poets of the natural world.

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This month, I will lead the group with Thomas Cahill's MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. It is a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements. This is Cahill's fifth volume his The Hinges of History series.After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and

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Long-time book discussion participant, Gerri Maurer, will lead us in our chat about THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson.Mortenson failed in his attempt to climb K2, the world’s second highest mountain. He wandered into a village in Pakistan and, because he was welcomed and well treated, he decided to raise money and build a school. He has gone on to build more schools in more villages proving

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Join us when Camille DelVecchio, Adult Services Librarian, leads us in our discussion of Laila Lalami's book HOPE AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS. Ms. Lalami was our guest author for our March Into Arts program in conjunction with Writers and Books when they presented their annual "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book" event this year.The book, a short story collection published in 1005,

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On Thursday evening, April 17, join us when Pat Gough leads our discussion of THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy. A man and a boy, father and son, "each the other's world entire," walk a road in "the ashes of the late world." In this stunning departure from his previous work, McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, 2005; All the Pretty Horses, 2000) envisions a postapocalyptic scenario...

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Our leader will be Kathryn Hill. This anti-war satire exposes our sense of moral superiority and our limited understanding of time. Billy Pilgrim was in Dresden at the time of the fire-bombing and that is always in his present; it will never stop happening.

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In February this year we will discuss John Burdett's BANGKOK 8 with our leader Ernie Orlando on Thursday, February 21 at 7pm. Yes, it’s a thriller but it’s also an exploration of smuggling, the Thai sex trade and Buddhism. The narrator is a Thai-American cop, a man of wry humor and philosophy, who is called on to investigate the death of his partner and a U.S. Marine.

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Come celebrate the New Year and enter into our 22nd year of book discussions. We have never missed a month from our beginnings in February 1986! In upstate New York winters, that's some kind of a record.To start the year off on Thursday, January 17th, from 7-9pm, former library director, Carolyn Smith will lead our discussion of Khalid Hosseini's A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS.The story covers three

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The Poetry of Patricia HooperPoet Kathleen Wakefield will present and discuss the work of Patricia Hooper who has published three books of poetry and four children's books. She won the 2003 Bluestem Prize for poetry for Aristotle's Garden, published by Emporia State University's Bluestem Press. Another of Patricia's collections of poetry, Other Lives, was awarded the Norma Farber First Book

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Thursday, October 18, 7:00—9:00 PM, we will discuss Dashiell Hammett's famous novel THE MALTESE FALCON. Our leader will be Carolyn Smith, former director of The Penfield Public Library.Seventy-seven years ago Sam Spade appeared on the scene. Hammett, who had been an actual detective for the Pinkertons, created one of the most iconic characters in American fiction. We are sponsoring this

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In September, I will lead the group in a discussion of Elizabeth Royte's GARBAGE LAND: ON THE SECRET TRAIL OF TRASH.From the Publisher:In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus;

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In August we will discuss Lisa See's novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN.From School Library JournalAdult/High School–Lily at 80 reflects on her life, beginning with her daughter days in 19th-century rural China. Foot-binding was practiced by all but the poorest families, and the graphic descriptions of it are not for the fainthearted. Yet women had nu shu, their own secret language. At the

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Our selection for July is PRODIGAL SUMMER by Barbara Kingslover.From the publisher:Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently

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Our selection this month is Geraldine Brooks' YEAR OF WONDERS.From the publisher: When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death

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I must apologize for not posting our May selection earlier than today. Our book for May is CHARMING BILLY by Alice McDermott. If you have read the book, or even if you haven't for that matter, join us May 17th at 7pm for a discussion of this delightful story of a lovable Irish-American from Queens. Our June selection has not been announced. Watch this space for more information soon.

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Join us on Thursday, April 19, from 7:00—9:00 PM for our discussion of Dorothy Allison's BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA. Our leader in April will be Jennifer Anderson. “At her birth in Greenville , South Carolina , Ruth Anne Boatwright is nicknamed Bone because she is so long and skinny. Because her Mama is fifteen and single when Bone is born, a stamp in "oversized

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On Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 7PM Chris Bohjalian will give a talk on his book THE BUFFALO SOLDIER. Press Release:"The Penfield Public Library welcomes author Chris Bohjalian in our seventh season of cooperation with Writers&Books: If All of Rochester Read the Same Book. This evening has become the signature event of our March into Arts program series, and brings nearly five hundred

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Thank you to everyone who came out in the snow and wind and subzero temperatures to attend our discussion on THE SPECIAL PRISONER last night. It was the 21st Anniversary of our Book Discussion program here at the Penfield Public Library. We have NEVER missed a month in all that time....even with Upstate New York winters! See you next month.

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Join us on Thursday, March 15th from 7:00– 9:00 PM in what should prove to be a lively discussion of THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls. Our leader for March will be Judy Gard, a Senior Library Clerk for our library.About the book: “Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this remarkable recollection of growing up. From her current

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Our February selection is THE SPECIAL PRISONER by Jim Lehrer. We will gather in the Ruth Braman Room at 7PM to discuss this suspenseful read. Our leader in February will be Ernie Orlando. Copies of THE SPECIAL PRISONER will be available on and after January 18, 2007.A short description of the book:Retired Methodist Bishop John Quincy Watson sees the head of the Japanese POW camp he was held in

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Our selection in January will be BUFFALO SOLDIER by Chris Bohjalian. Time: 7pm. Books will be available for check out on and after December 21, 2006. Leader: Carolyn SmithAbout BUFFALO SOLDIER:Two years after their twin daughters drown in a flash flood, Laura and Terry Sheldon, who are physically unable to bear any more children of their own, take in a quiet African American foster child named

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