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Connecting Point Inspirational Book Club

 
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The Shape of Mercy
by Susan Meissner
 

 

1:00pm Thursday
February 9, 2012

 

Lauren, a college student, helps Abigail Boyles, an 80-year-old recluse, transcribe the diary of Abigail's ancestral cousin, Mercy Hayworth--who was hanged for witchcraft. As secrets unfold, the extent to which the lives of these three women are connected comes to light, and both Lauren and Abigail find the very way they view the world irrevocably changed.

 

 

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Community Read Project: Ape House by Sara Gruen

Image of Ape House book coverCass County Public Library introduces this year’s community read initiative, “On The Same Page”. The purpose of a community reading project is to READ-THINK-TALK-LISTEN-GROW. It is a way to connect communities by reading the same book and initiating a dialogue about it.

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Jane and Friends Book Group

Thursday, January 19 at 6:30 pm

WAVERLEY by Sir Walter Scott

Join us as we follow the adventures of Captain Edward Waverley. Posted to Dundee, Scotland he meets Rose, the beautiful daughter of an old friend of his uncle Everard's. While in Dundee he becomes involved with Clan Mac-Ivor and lovely Flora Mac-Ivor in the uprising to unseat King George and replace him with Charles Stewart.

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January Contest: Name That Hat

 Our first contest of the new year is all about hats.  Here's how it works:

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New for the New Year on the Bookmobile

 

 

 Sleepwalker

by Karen Robards

 

[Click for more details]While housesitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe. But when they both find incriminating photos that that implicate Nicco n the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.

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