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The book chosen for our next Reading Group discussion is “The Given Day” by Dennis Lehane. If you would like to join us please call the library and we’ll get a book for you. Our discussion of this book will be held Wednesday, March 24th at 6pm.

Hope you will join us. Here is a review of the book:

Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller. Set in Boston during and after WWI, this engrossing epic brings alive a pivotal period in our cultural maturation through a pulsing narrative that exposes social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice, and encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919 and red-baiting and anti-union violence.Danny Coughlin, son of police captain Thomas Coughlin, is a devoted young beat cop in Boston’s teeming North End. Anxious to prove himself worthy of his legendary father, he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate the Bolsheviks and anarchists who are recruiting the city’s poverty-stricken immigrants. He gradually finds himself sympathetic to those living in similar conditions to his fellow policemen, who earn wages well below the poverty line, work in filthy, rat-infested headquarters, are made to pay for their own uniforms and are not compensated for overtime. Danny also rebels by falling in love with the family’s spunky Irish immigrant maid, a woman with a past. Danny’s counterpart in alienation is Luther Laurence, a spirited black man first encountered in the prologue when Babe Ruth sees him playing softball in Ohio. After Luther kills a man in Tulsa, he flees to Boston, where he becomes intertwined with Danny’s family. This story of fathers and sons, love and betrayal, idealism and injustice, prejudice and brotherly feeling is a dark vision of the brutality inherent in human nature and the dire fate of some who try to live by ethical standards. It’s also a vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity.

Reading Program for Adults & Teens

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Let it Snow! Reading Program

Program runs December 10, 2009 – March 31, 2010
Read or listen to 10 or more library books to complete the program.
Get a prize! Everyone who finishes the program receives a flexible booklight.
Take the “Reading Challenge” and read five additional books from the lists provided. Enter your name in the Grand Prize drawing.
Come to a “Let it snow somewhere else” on Thursday, April 8, 4-6 p.m., just for participating.