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August 2010
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7 pm
Odyssey
Open Fiction Bookgroup discusses The Quickening by
Michelle Hoover
7pm: Odyssey
Crime Club discusses The Daughter of Time by
Josephine Tey |
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12 7 pm
William
Powers, Hamlet's BlackBerry: A
Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age |
13 7 pm
Sherri
Brooks Vinton, Put 'em Up: A
Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from
Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling. |
14 3 pm
Patricia
MacLachlan: Word After Word After Word |
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18 7 pm
Howard
Bryant, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron |
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29 3 pm
T.
Greenwood,
The Hungry Season |
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August 9 • Monday • 7
pm
The Odyssey Open Fiction Book Group
will
discuss The
Quickening by
Michelle Hoover.
In this luminous and unforgettable debut, Hoover explores the
polarization of the human soul in times of hardship and the instinctual drive
for self-preservation by whatever means necessary.
This month’s selection is discounted 20%.
August 9 • Monday • 7
pm
The Odyssey Crime Club
will
discuss The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
In one of Tey’s best-selling mystery novels ever, Scotland Yard
Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a
sensitive face actually belong to one of history’s most heinous villains--a
king who killed his brother’s children to secure his crown? Grant determines
to find out once and for all what kind of man Richard was and who, in fact,
killed the princes in the tower.
This month’s selection is discounted 20%.
August 12 • Thursday
• 7 pm
William Powers
Hamlet’s
BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
A
crisp, passionately-argued answer to the question that everyone who’s grown
dependent on digital devices is asking: Where’s the rest of my life? Hamlet’s
BlackBerry challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect
through technology, the better. It’s time to strike a new balance, William
Powers argues, and discover why it’s also important to disconnect. Part
memoir, part intellectual journey, the book draws on the technological past and
great thinkers such as Shakespeare and Thoreau.
“Always
connected. Anytime. Anyplace. We know it’s a blessing, but we’re
starting to notice that it’s also a curse. In Hamlet’s BlackBerry,
William Powers helps us understand what being ‘connected’ disconnects
us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it…. A
thoughtful, elegant, and moving book.”
— Barry Schwartz, author of
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
August 13 • Friday
• 7 pm
Sherri Brooks Vinton
Put
‘em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from
Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling.
With
simple step-by-step instructions and 175 delicious recipes, Put ‘em
Up will have even the most timid beginners filling their pantries and
freezers in no time! You’ll find complete how-to information for every
kind of preserving: refrigerating, freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold-
and hot-pack canning, and pickling. Recipes range from the contemporary
and daring — Wasabi Beans, Cherry and Black Pepper Preserves, Pickled
Fennel, Figs in Honey Syrup, Sweet Pepper Marmalade, Berry Bourbon, Salsa
Verde — to the very best versions of tried-and-true favorites, including
applesauce and apple butter, dried tomatoes, marinara sauce, bread and
butter pickles, classic strawberry jam, and much, much more.
August 14 •
Saturday • 3 pm
Patricia MacLachlan
Word After World After Word

Every
school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell
and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words and a
whole new way of seeing and understanding. From beloved author Patricia
MacLachlan comes an honest, inspiring story about what is real and what is
unreal, and about the ways that writing can change our lives and connect us to
our own stories—word after word after word.
August 1
8
• Wednesday • 7 pm
Howard Bryant
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
In
the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has
only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases,
extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per
season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five
hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his influence extends
beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography
of one of baseball’s immortal figures.
Based on meticulous research and interviews with former teammates,
family, two former presidents, and Aaron himself, The Last Hero chronicles
Aaron’s childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro
Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic
rivalry with Willie Mays—all culminating in the defining event of his
life: his shattering of Babe Ruth’s all-time home-run record.
“Brawny…The
Last Hero had the forceful sweep of a well-struck essay as much as
that of a first-rate biography.”
—
The
New York Times
August 29 • Sunday • 3 pm
T. Greenwood
The Hungry Season
It’s
been five years since the Mason family vacationed at the lakeside cottage
in northeastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel
Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins
Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly
perfect. But since Franny’s death, the Masons have been flailing, one
step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam’s last, best hope of
rescuing his son from a destructive path and salvaging what’s left of
his family. From the acclaimed author of Two Rivers comes a
compelling and beautifully told story of hope, family, and above all,
hunger—for food, sex, love and success—and for a way back to wholeness
when a part of oneself has been lost forever.
“This
compelling study of a family in need of rescue is very effective, owing to
Greenwood’s (Two Rivers) eloquent, exquisite word artistry and
her knack for developing subtle, suspenseful scenes... Greenwood’s
sensitive and gripping examination of a family in crisis is real, complex,
and anything but formulaic.” --Library
Journal (starred review)