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Combined Book Club Potluck time again! We'll be meeting on January 31 to discuss Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge. Join us!

The Holmes Library offers two book discussion groups for adult readers, an evening group and an afternoon group. Please feel free to try either group!

Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk, or can be reserved through our iBistro catalog. For more information or to sign up, contact Jean for the evening group and Susan for the afternoon group.

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Garden of Lies


by
Eileen Goudge


Tuesday, January 31 at 6 pm
        Discussion starts at 6:30


 

 

On a hot July night in 1943, Sylvie gives birth to a dark-haired child she knows is the child of her lover. Realizing that her husband will not accept the child as his own, she finds deliverance from her impossible dilemma: amidst a raging fire in the hospital, Sylvie claims the fair-haired baby girl of a dead woman as her own, leaving her real daughter to be raised by strangers.

Rachel and Rose grow up worlds apart. Rachel is raised in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor; Rose, in the slums of New York City, yields to passion too young yet escapes heartbreak to become a prominent lawyer. Neither of them knows the terrible secret which draws them ever closer as they both fall in love with the same man-bringing them face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.

 

Books We Have Read

January '12 Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge
December The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis
November A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
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October Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
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September Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
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August Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde  
July A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  
June Hank & Chloe by Jo-Ann Mapson thumbs down
May Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas  
April The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen  
March The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
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February Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby
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January '11 A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams
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November Family Acts by Louise Shaffer
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October The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
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September The Girls by Lori Lansens
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August The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
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July Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
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June The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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May The Penny by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford
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April The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Allen Bradley
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March Sudden Sea by R. A. Scotti
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February Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
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January '10 The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
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December In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen
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November Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron (author visit)
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October The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
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September

The Widow's War by Sally Gunning

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August

The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig

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June

First Light by Philip R. Craig and William Tapply

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May

Black Mass by Dick Lehr

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April

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland

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March

Limitations by Scott Turow

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February

Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O'Brien

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January

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed

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December

The Childrens Blizzard by David Laskin

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November

Deafening by Frances Itani

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October

Blessings by Anna Quindlen 

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September

North River by Pete Hamill

Death in Belmont by Sebastion Junger

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro


The Afternoon Readers' Book Club

For more information or to sign up, please contact Susan at (781)293-2271 or by email. This month's selection...

book groupShadow Tag


by
Louise Erdrich


Tuesday,February 21 at 1 pm


 

 

 

When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.

Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.

Books We Have Read

January Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
December The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
November Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch
October The Dressmaker of Khair Khana  
Sept. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert  
August Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
July The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff  
June The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny  
May The Postmistress by Sarah Blake  
April The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
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March Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown
February I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
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January'11 A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams
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Dec Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
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Nov High Plains Tango by Robert James Waller
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Oct Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Sept The Secret by Beverly Lewis
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August Away With the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood
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July Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
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June Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
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May Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
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May Run by Ann Patchett  
April Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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March Watchers of Time by Charles Todd
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February The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
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January A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
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December The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory
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November Lily of the Valley by Suzanne Strempek Shea
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