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McAuliffe
Branch Book Discussion
Wednesday May 14, 7:00 pm or
Thursday May 15, 10:00 am
Title: Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Please join us for a conversation about a novel that is so much more
than a tale about the circus. Jacob Jankowski's reflection on his life
under the big top is a compelling exploration of the joy, sorrow, and
mystery that make 90 (or 93) years of life glow.
Led by Kelly Sprague. Refreshments. Copies of the book are available at
the branch.
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.
Historic Stone Walls in Massachusetts: A
Conservation Issue
Wednesday May 7, 7:00 pm, Main Library, Costin Room
Guest speaker: Dr. Robert M. Thorson,
author of Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History of New
England's Stone Walls
Opening Remarks by State Representative
Pamela Richardson
Historic fieldstone walls are the signature landforms of rural New
England. Understanding why they should be conserved, especially at the
local level, requires viewing them as cultural resources. Refreshments.
Scholar-led Book Discussion
The Power of Ideas: The '60s.
Wednesday May 28, 7:00 pm
Main Library, Costin Room
Moderator Dr. Mary Murphy and guest speaker Dr. Alan Feldman will
explore The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Publisher's Weekly
praised O'Brien's novel on Vietnam, saying his “meditations...suffuse
the entire work with a kind of poetic form...” Copies of the book are
available at both libraries. Refreshments.
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.
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Top Ten Requests
for the Week: May 14
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.
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Main Library
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Fearless fourteen
Due in June
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Evanovich, Janet |
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Hold tight
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Coben, Harlan |
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The
whole truth
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Baldacci, David |
| 4. |
Unaccustomed earth
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Lahiri, Jhumpa |
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Sundays at Tiffany's
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Patterson, James |
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Certain
girls
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Weiner, Jennifer
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Where
are you now
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Clark, Mary Higgins
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Front
Due in June
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Cornwell, Patricia |
| 9. |
Remember me?
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Kinsella, Sophie |
| 10. |
Santa Fe dead
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Woods, Stuart |
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McAuliffe Branch
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| 1. |
Fearless fourteen
Due in June
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Evanovich, Janet |
| 2. |
Sundays at Tiffany's
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Patterson, James |
| 3. |
The
appeal
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Grisham, John
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Where
are you now
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Clark, Mary Higgins
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Change
of heart
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Picoult, Jodi
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Unaccustomed earth
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Lahiri, Jhumpa |
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Remember me?
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Kinsella, Sophie |
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Nothing to lose
Due in June |
Child, Lee |
| 9. |
Quicksand
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Johansen, Iris |
| 10. |
Hold tight
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Coben, Harlan
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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 Judith Rosenbaum, McAuliffe
Library Circulation Staff
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Fiction.
First published in 1948, Paton's loving tribute to his homeland is a
story of two families trying to overcome hardship and sorrow,
mirrored by the struggle of Africa under white rule. Stephen Kumalo,
an aging country pastor, travels to Johannesburg to find his son
Absalom. He arrives to find that Absalom has been arrested for the
senseless murder of Arthur Jarvis, a white man who had devoted his
life to helping black people. Arthur's heartbroken father, James,
comes to Johannesburg to settle his son's affairs and finds his
son's writings about the state of race relations in South Africa.
The elder Jarvis is so deeply moved by his son's love of his country
and concern for its people that he returns to his home a changed
man.
As a loving tribute to his son, Jarvis, a wealthy farmer, decides to
revive Kumalo's village and improve the land, so that the young
people will be more likely to remain at home and not fall victim to
the ways of the city.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus. Fiction.
Through the journals of May Dodd, we learn of the "Brides for
Indians" program, brought about through a secret treaty between the
US government and Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne. In return for
1,000 horses, the US government would give the Cheyenne 1,000 brides
to bear children who would eventually become assimilated into white
culture. The brides-women from jails, debtors' prisons, and mental
institutions-are offered full pardons or unconditional release for
their participation in the program. May Dodd, child of a wealthy
Chicago family, has been committed to a lunatic asylum by her father
as punishment for marrying one of her father's employees. Jim
Fergus, with great insight, imbues May with the gift of beautiful
prose, humor and the will to succeed as she embarks on this great
adventure, her last chance to live as a free woman.For previous Staff Recommends columns, see the
Staff
Recommends Page.
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