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You Must Read This! Book
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Saturday September 11, 10:00am
Main Library, Costin Room
Want to share your favorite titles with other readers and get some tips on what to read next? Come to this monthly Saturday morning coffee hour. Bring books or titles others may enjoy, and gather suggestions for great reads you may have missed.
Main Library Book Club
Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin
Tuesday September 14, 7:00pm
Main Library, Costin Room
Set in 1950s Brooklyn, young Eilis Lacey comes to America from Enniscorthy, Ireland, and lands in a Brooklyn boarding house to start her new life. Her aching for home is hidden in the letters she writes home, as she carefully and painstakingly adapts to her new life. When a tragedy calls her back to Enniscorthy, her separate lives painfully and irrevocably collide. Led by Liz Fideler.
McAuliffe Book Discussion: Run by Ann Patchett
Wednesday September 15, 7:00pm or
Thursday September 16, 10:00am
McAuliffe Branch
Set in Boston, the engrossing story of
Bernard Doyle’s children examines issues
of race, class, and a different view of family.
Run is full of characters distinguished by
their strength and allegiance. Led by
Paula Marsh. Refreshments.
Main Library Book Club
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Tuesday October 5, 7:00pm
Main Library, Costin Room
Highly acclaimed novelist Gardam’s novel examines the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a dessicated barrister known as Old Filth (nickname for “Failed in London Try Hong Kong). At 80, Filth settles into retirement in Dorset, and for the first time is forced to delve into the past that produced him. The New Yorker says, “Gardam’s prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted.” Led by Marilyn Harter.
You Must Read This! Book
Chat
Saturday October 9, 10:00am
Main Library, Costin Room
Want to share your favorite titles with other readers and get some tips on what to read next? Come to this monthly Saturday morning coffee hour. Bring books or titles others may enjoy, and gather suggestions for great reads you may have missed.
Main Library Book Club
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Tuesday November 2, 7:00pm
Main Library, Costin Room
In rural 1926 China, young Pei is left at her Auntie Yee’s house so that she can work in the silk factory. At first feeling abandoned and alone, she gradually settles into the communal routine and becomes part of the sisterhood of the silk spinners, who together lead the first strike their village has ever seen. The New York Times Review calls it “…a revealing look at the life and customs of China.” Led by Ruth Winett. Adult programs are funded in part by the
Friends of the Framingham Library Association.
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Ideas
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Top Ten Requests for the Week: September 1, 2010. Looking for
more ideas? Check out Minuteman's
50 most requested titles for the month and our list of
noteworthy new books.
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Main Library
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The postcard killers
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Patterson, James |
| 2. |
Cutting for stone |
Verghese, A. |
| 3. |
Girl who kicked the
hornet's nest |
Larsson, Stieg |
| 4. |
The lion |
DeMille, Nelson |
| 5. |
Theodore Boone : kid
lawyer |
Grisham, John |
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The passage |
Cronin, Justin |
| 7. |
The island |
Hilderbrand, Elin |
| 8. |
The Rembrandt affair
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Silva, Daniel |
| 9. |
The help |
Stockett, Kathryn |
| 10. |
Star Island
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Hiaasen, Carl |
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McAuliffe Branch
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| 1. |
The help |
Stockett, Kathryn |
| 2. |
Girl who kicked the
hornet's nest |
Larsson, Stieg |
| 3. |
The Rembrandt affair
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Silva, Daniel |
| 4. |
Cutting for stone |
Verghese, A. |
| 5. |
Fly away home. |
Weiner, Jennifer |
| 6. |
The Girl with the
dragon tattoo |
Larsson, Stieg |
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The postcard killers
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Patterson, James |
| 8. |
Private
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Patterson, James |
| 9. |
The particular
sadness of lemon cake
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Bender, Aimee |
| 10. |
One day |
Nicholls, David |
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Looking for more ideas?
Check out the library's fiction &
leisure reading lists to find more books on your favorite
themes. Spies or romance, thrillers or friendship - our booklists cover
a range of themes and tastes.
Minuteman Library Network
Visit the Novelist database, where you
can find lists of books with your favorite plots, themes, or settings.
To find out what's hot this month, take a look at the
Minuteman Top Requests List to see what's hot.
The Staff Recommends
page spotlights books library staff have enjoyed.
Looking for information you
can use? Check the library's
resource lists on subjects from home repair to small
businesses.
Find a magazine to inform,
entertain, or intrigue you. Take a look at our
periodicals list.
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We
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Book Talk: We Recommend
Recommended by Mary Murphy, Circulation Department
The Last Chinese Chef
by Nicole Mones
Maggie McElroy suddenly finds herself a widow
when her husband dies while w orking for his law
firm in China. Her world becomes even more turned
upside down when she receives a call telling her that a paternity
suit has been filed in Beijing against her husband’s estate. She goes
to China to investigate the allegations and her editor asks her to do
a profile on Sam Liang, a Chinese-Jewish-American chef, while
she is there. Liang is trying to bring back Imperial recipes from his
family’s experiences working for the Emperor. He engages in a
cooking contest and Maggie finds herself coming back to life as she
follows the competition. Author Nicole Mones makes the characters
and their tales so engaging that you cannot put this down.
For previous Staff Recommends columns, see the Staff Recommends Page.
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Book
Group Kits
Book Group Kits To Go
We now have book group kits
with everything (except refreshments) you need for your next meeting.
These kits contain 8–10 copies of a popular book group title, reviews,
author information and a guide for discussion. We will continue to add
to this collection and welcome your suggestions.
Do you belong to a book group or have you thought about starting or
joining one? You can check out the kit for four weeks, distribute the copies to members and return the kit for your next month’s choice!
The following titles are available:
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Jane Austen book club by Karen Joy Fowler
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Run by Ann Patchett
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls
For other ideas for your next book group pick, see the
Book
Group Choices list.
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Services to the Homebound
Services to the Homebound
The library's in-home program makes
books, books on tape, large-print books, and CDs available to any
Framingham resident with a valid library card needing home delivery.
Please call the Community Services Librarian at 508-532-6347, for
more information.
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