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Prickly\, wry\, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deep ly empathetic\, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francis co Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force\," and she has never done so more clea rly than in these pages\, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand n ot only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby\, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the l oss of her father\, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment\, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush\, o r a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept\, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us\, to move us\, and to inspire us--in Strout's words--"to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."
\nTuesday\, November 28\, 2023: Life on the Mississip pi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck \;
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Seven years ago\, readers around the country fell in love with a singu lar American voice: Rinker Buck\, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and prope lled his book about the trip\, The Oregon Trail\, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now\, Buck returns to chronicle his latest inc redible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the e arly 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. A mod ern-day Huck Finn\, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage\, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges\, rescues his first mate gone overboard\ , sails blindly through fog\, breaks his ribs not once but twice\, and cam ps every night on sandbars\, remote islands\, and steep levees. As he char ts his own journey\, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era.
\nTuesday\, December 19\, 2023**: The Motion Picture Tell er by Colin Cotterill
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Thailand\, 1996: Supot\, a postman wi th the Royal Thai Postal Service\, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend\, Ali\, the owne r of a video store. These cinephiles adore the charisma of the old Western stars\, particularly the actresses\, and bemoan the state of modern Thai cinema -- until a mysterious cassette\, entitled Bangkok 2010\, arrives at Ali's store. Bangkok 2010 is a dystopian film set in a Thailand run by ch auvinistic Security Council officers -- and Supot and Ali\, immediately ob sessed\, agree it's the most brilliant Thai movie they've ever seen. But n obody else has ever heard of the movie\, the director\, the actors\, or an y of the crew. Who would make a movie like this and not release it\, and w hy? Feeling a powerful calling to solve the mystery of Bangkok 2010\, Supo t journeys deep into the Thai countryside and discovers a curse around the motion picture\, one that keeps Bangkok 2010 from ever being viewed. But does that mean its story can never be told? Colin Cotterill\, author of th e award-winning Dr. Siri Paiboun series\, presents a complex\, captivating narrative\, interposed with fascinating flashes of Bangkok 2010's gritty screenplay\, as the two intertwined tales of a Thailand in deep conflict b egin to meet in the middle."-- Provided by publisher.
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\n**Note: December&rs quo\;s book club date is the third Tuesday of the month\, due to Christmas holiday closures on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
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