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  • Local History Book Group: ‘American Bloomsbury’ by Susan Cheever

    February 03, 2020 | Will Adamczyk

    Join me on Wednesday, March 4th  at 7:00 for a discussion of ‘American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work‘ Susan Cheever. The Local History Book Group meets quarterly at the Library. Copies of the book will be available at the Main Desk

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  • Eclectic Book Club: The Marauders by Tom Cooper

    May 24, 2019

    Please join me on Wednesday, June 26th at 7pm for a discussion of the book The Marauders by Tom Cooper. This discussion is part of the quarterly Eclectic Book Club. “When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes

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  • Local History Book Group: ‘The Gardner Heist’ by Ulrich Boser

    April 01, 2019 | Will Adamczyk

    Join me on Wednesday, April 24th  at 7:00 for a discussion of ‘The Unredeemed Captive‘ by John Demos. The Local History Book Group meets quarterly at the Library. Copies of the book will be available at the Main Desk on the first floor. Haven’t you always wanted to know who stole the Gardner paintings??? Well, if you

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  • REMINDER – Eclectic Book Club: Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    January 04, 2019

    Please join me on Wednesday, February 6th for a discussion of Paul Howarth’s book Only Killers and Thieves. This discussion is part of the quarterly Eclectic Book Club. The book is about two brothers who are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power.  It is a story of savagery and

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  • Local History Book Group: ‘The Unredeemed Captive’ by John Demos

    November 19, 2018 | Will Adamczyk

    Join me on Wednesday, December 5th  at 7:00 for a discussion of ‘The Unredeemed Captive‘ by John Demos. The Local History Book Group meets quarterly at the Library. Copies of the book will be available at the Main Desk on the first floor. “The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts,

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