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 Programs for Readers

McAuliffe Branch Book Discussion
The McAuliffe Branch book discussion meets September-November and January-May.  Meetings are at 7:00 pm on Wednesday and 10:00 am on Thursday, the third week of the month.

Adult programs are funded in part by the Friends of the Framingham Library Association.

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 Ideas for Readers

Did You Know?
Many current and popular books are now available in trade paperback (larger paperbacks that are easier to read). In the Main Library, you can find these paperbacks in two special sections. Right behind the first 14-day-book shelf is a display of new trade paperbacks that have been especially selected for interest, popularity and readability. The Express Paperback section at the left of the circulation desk highlights popular in-demand books, many of which are still on reserve. You might come across hot titles like Water for Elephants or Eat, Pray, Love - or you might want to try something you've never heard of!

For a selection of recent literary trade paperbacks, see our Book Group Choices List.

Book Group Choices
If you're a member of a book group or simply enjoy literary fiction, you might discover some intriguing titles in our new booklist, Book Group Choices: Recent Titles for People Who Enjoy Literary Reads.

New and Forthcoming Books 
To reserve a book in the Minuteman Library Network catalog, click on the title.

September
Kate Atkinson. When Will There Be Good News?
Garrison Keillor. Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel.  
Philippa Gregory. The Other Queen.
Brad Meltzer. The Book of Lies.
Marilynne Robinson. Home.
Haywood Smith. Wedding Belles.
Philip Roth. Indignation.
Nicholas Sparks. Lucky One.
 
August
Linda Barnes. Lie Down With the Devil.      
Sandra Brown. Smoke Screen.
Edna Buchanan. Legally Dead.
Robin Cook. Foreign Body.
Stephen Coonts. The Assassin.
Tana French. The Likeness.
Stephen Frey. Forced Out.
Tess Gerritsen. The Keepsake.
J.A. Jance. Damage Control.
Faye Kellerman. The Mercedes Coffin.
Alexander McCall-Smith. The Comfort of a Muddy Saturday.
Kathy Reichs. Devil Bones.
Luanne Rice. Last Kiss.
Michael Robotham. Shatter.
John Sandford. Heat Lightning.
John Saul. The Face You Fear.
Anne Rivers Siddons. Off Season.
Daniel Silva. Moscow Rules.
Curtis Sittenfeld. American Wife.
Karin Slaughter. Fractured.
Paul Theroux. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway bazaar.
Stuart Woods. Hot Mahogany.
 
July
Suzanne Brockmann. Into the Fire.   
James Lee Burke. Swan Peak.
Ethan Canin. America, America.
Paolo Coelho. Brida.
Robert Crais. Chasing Darkness.
Lisa Gardner. Say Goodbye.
Jane Green. Beach House.
Linda Greenlow. Fisherman's Bend.
J.A. Jance. Damage Control.
Iris Johansen. Silent Thunder.
Perri Klass. The Mercy Rule.
Ron McLarty. Art in America.
James Patterson. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X.
Ridley Pearson. Killer View.
Christopher Reich. Devil Bones.
Nora Roberts. Tribute
Madeleine Wickham, aka Sophie Kinsella. Sleeping Arrangements.
 
June
Lewis Black. Me of Little Faith.  
Lawrence Block. Hit and Run.    
Dale Brown. Shadow Command.
Lee Child. Nothing to Lose.
Jackie Collins. Married Lovers.
John Connolly. The Reapers.
Patricia Cornwell. The Front.
Catherine Coulter. Tailspin.
Philip Craig. Vineyard Chill.
Clive Cussler. Plague Ship.
Jeffrey Deaver. The Broken Window.
Andre Dubus III. The Garden of Last Days.
Barbara Ehrenreich. This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation .
Janet Evanovich. Fearless Fourteen.
Alan Furst. The Spies of Warsaw.
W.E.B. Griffin. Death and Honor.
David Guterson. The Other.
Jennifer Haigh. Condition.
Linda Howard. Death Angel.
Marian Keyes. This Charming Man.
Billie Letts. Made in the U.S.A.
Johanna Lindsey. No Choice but Seduction.
Elizabeth Lowell. Blue Smoke and Murder.
Robert B. Parker. Resolution.
James Patterson. Sail.
Ruth Rendell. Not in the Flesh.
James Rollins. The Last Oracle.
David Sedaris. When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Danielle Steel. Rogue.
Lauren Weisberger. Chasing Harry Winston.
 
May
Chris Bohjalian. Skeletons at the Feast.    
C.J. Box. Blood Trail: A Joe Pickett Novel.
Dale Brown. Shadow Command.
Augusten Burroughs. A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father.
Jude Deveraux. Secrets.
Leif Enger. So Brave, Young, and Handsome.
Elizabeth George. Careless in Red.
Emily Giffin. Love the One You're With.
Carl Hiassen. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport.
Kate Jacobs. Comfort Food.
Dean Koontz. Odd Hours.
Donna Leon. The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Story.
Phillip Margolin. Executive Privilege.
Mameve Medwed. Of Men and Their Mothers.
Katherine Hall Page. The Body in the Gallery.
John Sandford. Phantom Prey.
Lisa Unger. Black Out.
Joseph Wambaugh. Hollywood Crows.
Simon Winchester. The Man Who Loved China.

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Top Ten Requests for the Week: July 23
See something you missed? Click on the title to go to the Minuteman Library Network catalog to place your reserve. Looking for more ideas? Check out Minuteman's 50 most requested titles for the month and our list of noteworthy new books.

Main Library
1.

Fearless fourteen

Evanovich, Janet
2.

The dangerous days of Daniel X Due in July

Patterson, James

3.

Tribute Due in July  

Roberts, Nora

4.

TailSpin

Coulter, Catherine

5.

Off season Due in August

Siddons, Anne Rivers
6.

The garden of last days

Dubus, Andre

7.

The story of Edgar Sawtelle

Wroblewski, David

8.

Unaccustomed earth

Lahiri, Jhumpa

9.

The beach house

Green, Jane

10.

Say goodbye Due in July

Gardner, Lisa

 

McAuliffe Branch

1.

Tribute

Roberts, Nora

2.

The beach house

Green, Jane

3.

Sail  

Patterson, James

4.

Audition: A memoir

Walters, Barbara

5.

TailSpin

Coulter, Catherine

6.

Unaccustomed earth

Lahiri, Jhumpa

7.

The dangerous days of Daniel X Due in July

Patterson, James

8.

The story of Edgar Sawtelle

Wroblewski, David

7.

The condition  Due in July

Haigh, Jennifer
10.

Fearless fourteen

Evanovich, Janet

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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. 

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 Recommmend

Recommended by Rebecca Berkowitz, Main Library Reference Librarian
The Late Homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang. B Yang, K. Yang.
Yang, who was born in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, tells the story of her family and thousands of other Hmong who supported the United States in Laos during the Vietnam War. After the war this ethnic group without a homeland was forced to flee local reprisals. From primitive refugee camps in Thailand the American government eventually resettled their former allies in the United States. In many ways these disenfranchised people then followed the classic immigration experience, but they were also unique. They came from a non-Western rainforest culture about which most Americans knew nothing. Hmong religion, medicine, and folklore are famously ill suited to American life and yet they persisted. A beautifully written, unforgettable journey.

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson. Fiction.
The author of the beloved Crow Lake returns us to a small town in Northern Canada and a tale as old as time: two brothers in a family where each parent has a favorite son, the younger can think circles around the older, and both brothers are in love with the same girl. The story is rich in context and social history, as the community weathers the Depression, World War II and the betrayal of those ill suited to this isolated community. Those who remain do so for their own unique reasons.

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. 306.85 LeBlanc.
LeBlanc spent ten years following a large extended Latino family living in the South Bronx. The resulting book is a rare look at the world through the eyes of her subjects. The author scrupulously removes herself from the narrative, allowing her characters lives to unfold without comment or characterization. The reader comes to understand the struggle required to survive the unrelenting grind of living in deep urban poverty. Obviously the issues defy easy answers, but this work goes a long way towards explaining the problem.

For previous Staff Recommends columns, see the Staff Recommends Page.

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