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September 10th @ 2pm December 3rd @ 2pm A Man Called Ove ~ The Underground Railroad ~ Fredrik Backman Colson Whitehead A curmudgeon hides a Chronicles the daring survival story terrible personal loss beneath of a cotton plantation slave in a cranky and short-tempered Georgia, who, after suffering at the exterior while clashing with hands of both her owners and fellow new neighbors, a boisterous family whose slaves, races through the Under- chattiness and habits lead to unexpected ground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close Dover Public behind. friendship. Library

Adult Book October 8th @ 2pm Please call 736-7030 for Group When Breath Becomes Air ~ Paul Kalanithi more information or to What makes a life worth living? At the age of thir- reserve a copy of these ty-six, on the verge of com- pleting a decade's worth of books. training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. And just like that, the future he and his HOURS: wife had imagined evaporated. Chronicling Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student Monday - Friday: 9am - 7:55pm "possessed by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful Saturday: 10am - 4:55pm life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in 2017 the brain, the most critical place for human Sunday: 1pm - 4:55pm identity, and finally into a patient and new father Discussion confronting his own mortality. FIND US ONLINE Schedule www.doverpubliclibrary.org November 5th @ 2pm www.facebook.com/DoverLibrary The Light Between Oceans ~ 35 Loockerman Plaza M.L. Stedman Dover, DE 19901 A novel set on a remote Aus- 302-736-7030 tralian island, where a child- www.doverpubliclibrary.org couple live quietly run- www.facebook.com/DoverLibrary ning a lighthouse, until a boat * Book summaries and cover art retrieved at www.lib.de.us carrying a baby washes ashore. utilizing the NoveList Plus database. February 26th @ 2pm April 23rd @ 2pm July 16th @ 2pm A Spool of Blue Thread ~ Cold Sassy Tree ~ Olive Ann Burns The Invention of Wings ~ Sue Monk Kidd One thing you could depend on in "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow- Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word Traces more than three decades and-green afternoon." This is the got around - fast. On July 5, 1906, in the lives of a wealthy way Abby Whitshank always things took a scandalous turn. That Charleston debutante who begins the story of how she fell in was the day that E. Rucker Blakeslee, longs to break free from the love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a strictures of her household and pursue a family--their two daughters and two sons, their widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson - a woman half meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteen- who is placed in her charge as a child before the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began, and an unim- finding courage and a sense of self. tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate May 21st @ 2pm August 13th @ 2pm of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. The Plot Against America ~ This capacious novel takes us across three genera- The Taming of the Queen ~ tions of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and Philippa Gregory long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly In a novel of alternative history, aviation Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old lived moments that combine to define who and hero and isolationist Charles A. Lind- widow in a secret affair with a what they are as a family. bergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the new lover, has no choice when 1940 presidential election, negotiating a a man old enough to be her cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest father who has buried four wives -- King Henry of Europe and anti-Semitic policies, and igniting a storm VIII -- commands her to marry him. 26th @ 6:30pm of fear for Jewish families throughout America. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she The Residence: Inside the Pri- faces: the previous queen lasted sixteen vate World of the White months, the one before barely half a year. But House ~ Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust June 18th @ 2pm Kate Andersen Brower in him grows as she unites the royal family, The Boys in the Boat: Nine creates a radical study circle at the heart of the An intimate account of White Americans and their Epic Quest for court, and rules the kingdom as regent. But is House life from the perspective Gold at the 1936 Olympics ~ this enough to keep her safe? A leader of reli- of the service staff from the Kennedys through Daniel Brown gious reform and a published author, Kateryn the Obamas...details their friendships, stands out as an independent woman with a This is the remarkable story of the marriages, everyday activities, and elaborate mind of her own. But she cannot save the University of Washington's 1936 state dinners. Protestants, under threat for their faith, and eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold Henry's dangerous gaze turns on her. The tradi- medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farm- tional churchmen and rivals for power accuse ers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and her of heresy -- the punishment is death by fire British universities and finally the German crew rowing and the king's name is on the warrant. for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.