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RT Library BookChat 2010 Selections

Do you enjoy reading and chatting about books? The adult book group BookChat meets at Rockaway Twp Library, on one Thursday evening monthly, from 7pm-8:30pm.
BookChat members pick up each month's selection at the meeting or at the library. Refreshments provided. Download June-Dec 2010 book list

To register, or for more information, call the library at 973-627-2344,
or email us at Rockawaytwplibrary@rtlibrary.org
AUG 26
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
belong to me

(2008, Fiction, 400 pgs.)
We'll chat on the Front patio, weather permitting


Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. As the stories of 3 women who become friends unfold, they’re entangled in a web of trust, betrayal and loss that challenges them in ways they never imagined.

SEPT 23
Hard to Place: One Family's Journey through Adoption
by Dr. Marion Goldstein
hardtoplace

(2009, memoir, 261 pgs.)
NJ author, Marion Goldstein will join us!

The true story of a NJ psychotherapist who adopted two "hard to place"
brothers into her existing family of three children, and the challenges they faced through crises and hard times.

 


OCT 21
The Gold Bug and other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The gold bug (19th century, fiction, 128 pages)

Nine famous tales of psychological terror and the supernatural:
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"
"The Fall of the House of Usher,"
"The Masque of the Red Death,"
"The Tell-Tale Heart,"
"The Pit and the Pendulum" and more.
NOV 18
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
halfbrokehorses

(2009, fiction, 272 pgs. )

A magnificent, true-life novel based on her no nonsense, resourceful,
hard-working and spectacularly compelling grandmother. From the author
of The Glass Castle



DEC 16
Planning Meeting for 2011
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