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Congratulations to Tina and Gail M., the lucky winners of gift cards to Berlin Batting Cages and Tiffany Nails!
We're up to a total of 555 books read by 131 participants, officially surpassing the number of books on my overgrown "to be read" list 😂 |
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A new way to use MyLibrarian
Berlin-Peck has added a new low-tech way to get reading recommendations from MyLibrarian! Just fill out one of the paper slips, then return it in the box outside during library hours. A list will be waiting for you with your next curbside pickup.
We know everyone misses browsing the shelves—so please help us spread the word to our less "techy" friends! |
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Read a book turned into a TV show or movie
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an enterprising teenager in Malawi built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors. |
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron
With four hundred miles of dangerous Colorado wilderness separating one brave dog from her beloved person, Bella sets off on a seemingly impossible and completely unforgettable adventure home. |
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The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her life and home to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
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I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt ("The Irishman")
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. |
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice. |
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
A memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience that examines addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addictions to deadly extremes, describing the battle to confront the consequences of his life. |
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The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Two teens—Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica—cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives—Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica—and fall in love. |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. |
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. |
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Prizes, prizes, prizes!
We're holding two raffles this Thursday, July 30. Raffle winners can pick up their gift cards in the lobby or as a curbside pickup.
Here's what you could win:
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• LEADER BOARD •
At the end of the summer, the top five readers will receive a Praline's coupon and an awesome summer reading bumper sticker magnet!
Don't forget to check out the challenges section to earn more points!
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Cynthia A. 33
Kristen D. 31
Amanda L. 27
Gina A. 26
Anne D. 25
Bethany P. 25
Amy Y. 24
Karen R. 23
Melissa U. 22
Lisa S. 21
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