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  • Don't forget - tonight @ 6 pm is the first meeting of our book/film club. We're viewing and discussing "Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano.
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  • 1st meeting of our book/film club is this Wednesday @ 6:00. Will be viewing the film "Gomorrah" and the book is available @ 7529 Maple.
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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

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A Confederacy of Dunces – by John Kennedy Toole

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen…

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The Moviegoer – by Walker Percy

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached…

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The Road – by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck…

UPCOMING EVENTS


  • The 1st meeting of our book/film club will be Wednesday, March 10 at 6:00. We will be viewing and…

    March 10th, 2010

  • John Wade II will be signing his book “How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth” from 1-3.

    March 13th, 2010

  • Robert Hinckley will be signing “William Woodward: American Impressionist” from 1-3.

    March 13th, 2010

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