Lunch and a Book June 2018

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook

Spanning eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.

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New Book Club in a Bag Kit

April 16, 2018 | daviscrl
The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit [kit] by Michael Finkel

In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter, he broke into nearby cottages for provisions, taking only what he needed, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. CPL's Lunch and a Book Group gave this title 4 stars out of 5. This kit contains 10 copies of the title.

eBook Big Library Read April 2018

April 3, 2018 | daviscrl

The Big Library Read is a “global eBook club,” connecting readers around the world who read the same eBook at the same time. The 2018 spring selection is:  Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer McGaha.  The program runs from April 2 through 16, and during this time OverDrive offers unlimited checkouts on the title. With no waiting list, you can  check the book out today!

Nonfiction Book Group May 2018

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The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
Also available in: e-book

As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs' fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons-like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades--changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age.

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Lunch and a Book May 2018

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The night circus : a novel by Erin Morgenstern
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook

A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

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New E-books on OverDrive for March 2018

March 28, 2018 | daviscrl

If you are looking for fresh titles to add to your phone, tablet or reader, take a look at some of the newer additions to our OverDrive e-book collection. We add new titles almost every week, so there are many more on OverDrive to explore. If you are new to e-books, you can get learn how to get started on our E-media page.

The Italian party [electronic resource] by Christina Lynch
Also available in: e-audiobook

Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each other. When Scottie's Italian teacher—a teenager with secrets of his own—disappears, her search for him leads her to discover other, darker truths about herself, her husband and her country. Michael's dedication to saving the world from communism crumbles as he begins to see that he is a pawn in a much different game. Driven apart by lies, Michael and Scottie must find their way through a maze of history, memory, hate and love to a new kind of complicated truth.

The little teashop of lost and found [electronic resource] by Trisha Ashley

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a horrid step-mother, Alice struggles to find a place where she belongs. Only baking – the scent of cinnamon and citrus and the feel of butter and flour between her fingers – brings a comforting sense of home. So it seems natural that when she finally decides to return to Haworth, Alice turns to baking again, taking over a run-down little teashop and working to set up an afternoon tea emporium. Luckily she soon makes friends – including a Grecian god-like neighbour – who help her both set up home and try to solve the mystery of who she is.

Nonfiction Book Group April 2018

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Join the Nonfiction Book Group at the Sweetwaters on Canton Center Road for a lively discussion.

Caesar's last breath : decoding the secrets of the air around us by Sam Kean
Also available in: e-book

Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.

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Lunch and a Book April 2018

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Please join Lunch and a Book to discuss:

The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit by Michael Finkel
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook

In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter, he broke into nearby cottages for provisions, taking only what he needed, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries.

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Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund

February 5, 2018 | daviscrl

In 2017 the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund was created through a generous anonymous donation from appreciative readers. This donation enhances our print collection through the purchase of literary fiction and literary genre fiction; or quality narrative nonfiction primarily in the areas of science, social science, the humanities, literary biographies, and history. If you're interested in contributing to the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund, contact the fund's administrator, the Canton Community Foundation. Following are just a few of the books this thoughtful donation has allowed us to purchase in 2018. To find a complete list of books librarians have purchased with this money, keyword search the terms Book Purchase Enrichment Fund in our catalog.

Asia's reckoning : China, Japan, and the fate of U.S. power in the Pacific century by Richard McGregor

A compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The rivalry between China and Japan is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump's disdain for America's old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart.

Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does--but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine.

Blind Date with a Book

February 4, 2018 | daviscrl

Valentine's Day is the perfect time to snuggle up with a big box of chocolates and a good book. We can help you with the book part of that equation. Visit our display and pick up a Blind Date Book. Because your Valentine's Day should be filled with romance, surprises and fun, the Blind Date Books are wrapped up in paper. You won't know what you've picked until you check it out!

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