Non-Fiction
November – All They Will Call You: The Telling of the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, by Tim Hernandez
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A fictional narrative that pieces together the stories of the victims and witnesses of a plane crash that occurred on January 28, 1948 in the Diablo Range near Fresno, California, which killed 32 people, among them 28 Mexican deportees, and inspired a song by Woody Guthrie
Fiction
September 11, 2020 @ 5pm – Changing Planes, by Ursula Le Guin
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The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes — not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin’s deadpan premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our now, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien
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October 9, 2020 @5pm – The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
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When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she’s seeing? Or, is something more sinister at work
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Cosy Reads
September 16, 2020 @ 5pm – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
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The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century
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October 21, 2020 @ 5pm – Bookshop of Yesterday, by Amy Meyerson
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A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of a reading. Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love, and the healing power of community. It’s a letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become.
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November 18, 2020 @ 5pm – Nothing with Strings, by Bailey White
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For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing With Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With grace and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart.
Children’s
September 22, 2020 @ 3pm – Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA’s African American women mathematicians to America’s space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes
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Children’s
October 27 @ 3pm – The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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November 17 @ 3pm – Magic Marks the Spot, by Caroline Carlson
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Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. She can tread water for thirty-seven minutes. She can tie a knot faster than a fleet of sailors, and she already owns a rather pointy sword. There’s only one problem: The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates refuses to let any girl join their ranks of scourges and scallywags. But Hilary is not the kind of girl to take no for an answer. To escape a life of petticoats and politeness at her stuffy finishing school, Hilary sets out in search of her own seaworthy adventure, where she gets swept up in a madcap quest involving a map without an X, a magical treasure that likely doesn’t exist, a talking gargoyle, a crew of misfit scallywags, and the most treacherous — and unexpected — villain on the High Seas.
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December 15 @ 3pm – Winterhouse, by Ben Guterson
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Orphan Elizabeth Somer’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms — most notably it’s massive library. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel’s secrets, the more Elizabeth starts to realize that she is somehow connected to Winterhouse. As fate would have it, Elizabeth is the only person who can break the hotel’s curse and solve the mystery. But will it be at the cost of losing the people she has come to care for, and even Winterhouse itself?
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