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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 bay window seating area on the ground floor. 

 

Reader's Circle - Spring 2012

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

Our theme this season:
Reader's Choice


Thursday, February 23rd
by Paula McLain

 

Thursday, March 29th
Don't Let's Go To The Dog's Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller

 

Thursday, April 26th

The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht

 

 

Thursday, May 31st

No Program

 

Thursday, June 28th

All Over But The Shoutin'

by Rick Bragg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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