Adult Programs

	New Books Winter, 2010

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	New Books on CD, January, 2010

	Master List of Lebanon Library Audiobooks

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	New DVDs Winter, 2010

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Book Discussion Group Starts in January, 2010!
Mysteries of Emily Dickinson Participate in the Big Read celebration of Emily Dickinson! Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm Lebanon Public Library. All discussion groups will take place on the 2nd Thursday of each month in the All Purpose Room of the library. *All books from this series can be obtained at the Lebanon Public Library. If you have questions or suggestions for programs, please call Carolyn Crocker at 448-2459. Also, if you need special accommodations, please call the library 72 hours in advance.
	February 11 Emily Dickinson is dead by Jane Langton Anything can happen when Emily Dickinson scholars and fanatics gather at a symposium in Amherst - even arson and murder! Homer Kelly, Thoreau specialist and former detective, is on the case!
	March 11 An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England by Brock Clarke At age 18, Sam Pulsifer made a terrible mistake, when he accidentally set the Emily Dickinson Homestead afire, killing two people. He has completed ten years in prison and is back in Amherst when other writers' homes are torched. He must find the actual arsonist to clear his name.
	April 8 The poet and the murderer by Simon Worrall This true crime account of a 20th century forgery, literary obsession, and murder is as gripping as a novel, and fascinating in its exploration of psychology and forensics.

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	Staff Picks Summer/Fall 2009

	Brooklyn - Colm Toibin Eilis Lacey is a bright young bookkeeper-in-training in her small Irish town where the bad economy and rigid class system keep everyone (except possibly her smart and beautiful older sister) in their place. Eilis' decision to emigrate to work in Brooklyn brings her opportunities, love, and aching homesickness until tragedy brings her back to Ireland and the crisis of another decision.
	All Other Nights - Dara Horn When Jacob Rappaport escapes an arranged marriage by enlisting as a Union soldier, he becomes a murderer, liar, and spy high up in the Confederacy. He must betray the whole family of his actress-spy wife, and through painful transformation learn the meaning of truth, redemption and love. A Civil War page-turner with a unique perspective.
	The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen A 12-year-old prodigy, a self-taught mapmaker on a ranch in Montana, receives an achievement award from the Smithsonian and sets off on a solo journey across the U.S. Maps, diagrams, illustrations, and margin notes abound. His story, told in his distinctive - lyrical and humorous - voice, deals with the mystery of family relationships and tragedy, adventure, the culture of celebrity, and the Unified Theory of Everything. An unforgettable experience.
	Appassionata - Eva Hoffman Concert pianist Isabel Merton begins her European tour dissatisfied with the comfort and rationality of her life. The mystery and passion encountered in a mysterious Chechen freedom fighter draw her into a search for truth and meaning with explosive consequences. This novel portrays the conflict of self-fulfillment, world politics, and music.
	My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru Thirty years after 1968, suburban stepdad Michael Frame has succeeded in erasing his radical leftist past in London's counterculture. But the terrorist activities that he abandoned just short of pulling the trigger, catch up with him. A professional infiltrator engineers a reunion to expose the lie and he flees once more to confront the truths and betrayals of his past.
	The Stalin Epigram - Robert Littell Russia of the 1930's, as experienced by its leading literary figures, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, and Boris Pasternak and vivid fictional characters, is re-imagined by the veteran Newsweek foreign correspondent-turned-political thriller novelist. The anguish of oppressed artists is captured in all its heartbreaking reality.
	Goldengrove - Francine Prose When a family loses a talented daughter suddenly, her younger sister Nico must cope with grieving parents, the desolate boyfriend, a small town's response to tragedy, as well as her own guilt and grief. This coming-of-age novel plumbs the depths of what is unknowable in human relationships and the source of resilient will to go on.
	The Victoria Vanishes - Christopher Fowler The unexplained deaths of lone women in pubs - and the overnight disappearance of the pub itself - implicate the highest levels of government. This is the last mystery (#5) of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, a band of unorthodox investigators barely tolerated by the Metropolitan Police who nonetheless rely on them to keep London "free, open, and comfortable."
	Pictures at an Exhibition - Sara Houghteling A first-novel about the community of art dealers in Paris before, during, and after Nazi occupation, it focuses on reluctant medical student Max Berenson. His father refuses to entrust him with the family business, despite his desire to prove himself capable. After the war he tries to recover his family's art and his lost love, Rose, a character based on the life of an actual double-agent who tracked the Nazi looting of galleries and museums.
	The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga This debut novel won Britain's highest prize for fiction: The Man Booker. Balram, a low-caste Indian from a poor village has risen, by theft and murder, from chauffeur to "entrepreneur" in Bangalore. His explanation of his life and society in a letter to the premier of the People's Republic of China is surprisingly appealing and even funny.
	Isaac's Torah - Angel Wagenstein The subtitle - Concerning the life of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld through two world wars, three concentration camps, and five motherlands - seems to say it all, except it cannot capture the wonderful spirit amidst tragedy, the life-affirming reflections and humor of this compassionate survivor.
	The Road Home - Rose Tremaine Grieving widower Lev leaves his Eastern European rural village for the economic advantages of London. What he finds there - the pain of exile, the conditions of employment, the victimization of immigrants, the kindness of strangers, the joys of community, even new love - inspires and discourages him, as he makes his way toward a new life.

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	Special Events (Library Sponsored Activities)

The Big Read

In collaboration with Opera North and the Lebanon Opera House, the Lebanon Public Libraries has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Big Read is designed to unite communities in reading and embracing literature. In collaboration with its grant partners, the Lebanon Public Libraries will celebrate the poems, and life, of Emily Dickinson as they are expressed in songs, spoken and written word poetry, and performance art. Thursday, March 18th from 7:00-8:30 at Lebanon Public Library: local poet and author Alice Fogel will lead a discussion focused on reading Dickinson from a layperson's perspective.

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