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| Adult Book Discussion - Creston
Monday, September 13 @ 7 p.m.
The Red Tent
by: Diamant, Anita Check Our Catalog
Snack Included Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood - the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers - Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate, immediate connection.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Wooster
Saturday, September 13 @ 7:00 p.m. - Meeting Room # 1
True Compass: A Memoir
By Kennedy, Edward M.
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and 50 years at the center of national events.
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| Inspirational Book Discussion - Wooster
Saturday, September 18 @ 10 a.m. - Meeting Room #1
Den of Lions
by: Anderson, Terry
Check Our Catalog Former AP Chief Middle East Correspondent Terry Anderson tells the story of his nearly seven years of captivity by Shiite radicals in Beirut, of the spiritual rebirth that enabled him to endure, and of his ultimate release as a free, but forever changed, man. Photos. NBC-TV miniseries in Nov.
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| Adult Book Discussions - Doylestown
Tuesday, September 28 @ 7 p.m.
Gilead
By Robinson, Marilynne
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Wooster
Monday, October 4 @ 7 p.m. - Meeting Room # 1
The Bluest Eye
By Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Creston
Monday, October 18 @ 7 p.m.
The Lace Reader
by: Brunonia Barry
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In Barry's captivating debut, a young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
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| Inspirational Book Discussion - Wooster
Saturday, October 23 @ 10 a.m. - Meeting Room #1
So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom
by: Moore, Roy
With Perry, John
Check Our Catalog  View Author Video Clip "The Ten Commandments Judge" tells his story, including his pledge before his election, his refusal to obey an order by the Federal District Court, and why he believes this issue is the most crucial of all political questions.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Doylestown
Tuesday, October 26 @ 7 p.m.
The End
By Scibona, Salvatore
2008 National Book Award Fiction Finalist Scibona follows an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy, and a jeweler into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives--against a background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, set in 1953.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Wooster
Monday, November 1 @ 7:00 p.m. - Meeting Room # 1
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
By Poitier, Sidney
In this candid memoir, the legendary actor reveals the spiritual depth, passion, and intellectual fervor for issues that has driven his life. His memoir spans his involvement in the early days of segregation to the Civil Rights conflicts and up to modern day cultural struggles.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Creston
Monday, November 8 @ 7 p.m.
The Eiger Sanction
by: Trevanian
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Snack Included Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.
In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author traces Hemlock's spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters--villains, traitors, beautiful women--into the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion, accusation, and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax in this exciting, entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page.
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| Inspirational Book Discussion - Wooster
Saturday, November 20 @ 10 a.m. - Meeting Room #1
A Nest of Sparrows
by: Raney, Deborah
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His Fiancee Was the One Woman He'd Loved.
Her Children Are All He Has Left.
Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that's exactly what happened. As their wedding draws near, however, tragedy strikes-and Wade must put aside his own grief in order to help Starr's children cope.
As Wade focuses his efforts on caring for the children, he discovers that their tender, young lives give tremendous meaning to his own broken one. Then Starr's abusive ex-husband shows up to claim the offspring who barely remember him-and Wade prepares for the fight of his life.
Will Anyone Believe His Claim to Love the Children More than Their Father Loves Them?
A powerful novel of loss and discovery, courage and grace, "A Nest of Sparrows masterfully illustrates one man's struggle to know when to fight, when to let go, and when to simply wait.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Doylestown
Tuesday, November 30 @ 7 p.m. - Meeting Room
The Painted Veil
By Maugham, W. Somerset
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Wooster
Monday, December 6 @ 7 p.m. - Meeting Rm. # 1
The Poisonwood Bible
By Kingsolver, Barbara
2003-02 ISBN:0060512822 / 9780060512828
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The highly acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club(--is now available in paperback. When evangelist Nathan Price takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959, the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within the country's complex culture. ...More
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| Adult Book Discussion - Creston
Monday, December 13 @ 7 pm.
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
by: Giffels, David Check Our Catalog
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The memoir follows Giffels' funny, poignant, and confounding journey, as he and his wife and a colorful collection of helpers turn a money pit into a livable house. But the story's heart lies deeper in the series of personal hardships that call into question what home really means. Illustrated.
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| Adult Book Discussion - Doylestown
Tuesday, December 14 @ 6 p.m. - Meeting Room
The Painted Veil
We'll watch the movie adaptation of the book by W. Somerset Maugham which was the discussion selection in November.
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| Inspirational Book Discussion - Wooster
Saturday, December 11 @ 10 a.m. - Meeting Room #1
The Purpose of Christmas
by: Warren, Rick
Check Our Catalog Hailed by The Economist as the "the most influential pastor in America," and by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, the bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life expounds on the profound origins of Christmas.
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