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McAuliffe Book Discussion (Morning): The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peter

 The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peter

  • "July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

    In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

    For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time."
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Yankee Magazine’s Mel Allen: Here In New England

Join long-time Yankee editor Mel Allen in discussion of his book: Here in New England: Unforgettable stories of people, places, and memories that connect us all. From his first stories in Yankee in 1979, to the day he retired in 2025, his work, both as editor and author, has captured New England’s unique sense of place and the people who call it home

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Hot Takes: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

NEW LOCATION! Hot Takes will now meet in the J Program Room at the Main Library.

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

  • "After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the...

    Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy’s brother—and Elle's new business partner—expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because... awkward.

    Darcy begs Elle to play along and she agrees to pretend they’re dating. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family during the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a faux relationship. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?"
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Banned Books Discussion

Celebrate the Freedom to Read during banned books week! We invite you to read any banned or challenged book of your choosing, then join us for a discussion on why these books have been challenged and the state of current book bans.