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Programs

Library Knitters -

Knitters grade 6 through adult are welcome for this drop-in group. Knitters and other handcrafters of all abilities meet Saturdays from 1:30-3:30 in the boy window seating area on the ground floor. New this season, we begin "Knit for Others," a program for making and collecting handknits for those in need.

 

Reader’s Circle - Spring 2010

Please note that our meeting day is a Monday. All meetings are at 7:00pm at Merrill Memorial Library. Registration is not required.

Monday, February 22nd
On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan

“Heartbreaking. . . . Breathtaking. . . . McEwan’s prose is as masterly as ever, here striking a remarkably subtle balance between detachment and sympathy, dry wit and deep compassion. . . . No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan’s accomplishment.” —The Washington Post Book World

 

 

Monday, March 29th
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
by Margaret Atwood

 

"Stories like ‘The White Horse’. . . prove Atwood is still a master of the compelling, peculiar portrait of human behavior.” —Entertainment Weekly

 

“Poignant. . . . Wry. . . . The tremendous imaginative power of [Atwood's] fiction allows us to believe that anything is possible.” —New York Times Book Review

 

 
Monday, April 26th
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

"His tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only add to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful. It might very well be the best book of the year, period." —San Francisco Chronicle

 

"McCarthy has never seemed more at home, more eloquent . . . . Extraordinarily lovely and sad. . . . [A] masterpiece." —Entertainment Weekly

 

Monday, June 28th
The Third Angel
by Alice Hoffman

". . . . one of contemporary American literature’s most satisfying and thoughtful practitioners." — The Los Angeles Times

 

“Her storytelling gifts are those of a master.” —Newsweek

 

Want to start your own book club?

MML has up to ten copies of the following titles available in convenient totes, to be checked out as a group:

    Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
    Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
    Fidelity:  Five Stories by Wendell Berry
    My Antonia by Willa Cather
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
    The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
    Three Junes by Julia Glass
    The All of It by Jeannette Haien
    The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
    The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
    Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
    Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
    Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
    The Color of Water by James McBride
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
    Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
    Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
    Straight Man by Richard Russo
    In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
    Night by Elie Wiesel