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Contemporary Fiction Book Bites Mysterious Mondays Gente y Cuentos Contemporary FictionReaders Services Librarian Kristin Pehnke leads this discussion of noteworthy, contemporary fiction (and sometimes nonfiction). Free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. by Jonathan Safran Foer Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious inventor and Shakespearean actor who is on an urgent, secret search through New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Thursday, September 14, 10:30 a.m.
The lives of three people from different worlds collide in the Sundarbans, an immense labyrinth of tiny islands in the Bay of Bengal - an isolated world where political turmoil exacts a personal toll that is every bit as powerful as the ravaging tide. Thursday, October 12, 10:30 a.m.
November Book: Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates Set in a small Ontario town in the 1960s, this is the story of Su-Jen and her paren ts as they settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family, isolated by language and long hours at the diner they own. Thursday, November 9, 10:30 a.m.
Book Bites Bring your lunch and a favorite (or not-so-favorite) book to this brown-bag book discussion group and give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to what you've read. Wednesdays, 1 p.m.: Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 15 Gente y Cuentos Book Discussions in Spanish The Mystery Book Group Join Reference Librarian Gayle Stratton in discussing the most intriguing and puzzling of mystery books. Please register for this book group by calling 924-9529, ext. 220 or by emailing books@princetonlibrary.org.
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now ninety-three, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse. Holmes has settled into the routine of tending his apiary, writing in journals, and grappling with the diminishing powers of his razor-sharp mind, when he comes upon the case of a Mrs. Keller, the long-ago object of Holmes's deep - and never acknowledged - infatuation. Monday, September 11, 7:30 p.m.
In a small Norwegian village at the foot of the Kollen Mountains, neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But after a teenage girl's body is found by the lake on the mountaintop, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade. Monday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.
When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon, who has also disappeared. Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent Monday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
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Luncheon Book Discussion
