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The berry pickers: a novel DB117941Author: Peters, AmandaReading Time: 8 hours, 47 minutesRead by: Jordan Waunch, Aaliya WarbusSubjects: General Fiction, Family, Historical Fiction
“A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.” — Provided by publisher. Strong language and some violence. Commercial audiobook.
[Prince Frederick, Maryland] : Recorded Books, Inc., [2023]
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The accident: a novel DB74117
Author: Barclay, Linwood
Reading Time: 12 hours, 17 minutes
Read by: Peter Berkrot
Subject: Suspense Fiction
After his wife Sheila is killed in a drunk-driving accident she caused, struggling contractor Glen Garber is angry and confused–Sheila never drank that much. When the mother of his eight-year-old daughter’s best friend also dies mysteriously, Glen’s suspicions deepen. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook. 2011.
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This group currently does not have a scheduled facilitator and we will continue to pick and discuss books as a group.
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The Fiction Old and New book group again welcomes guest host Sally Rosenthal on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern to discuss The color purple DB58842 by Alice Walker.
(BARD annotation below). We hope that you can join us this Black History Month to discuss this compelling story.
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The color purple DB58842Author: Walker, AliceReading Time: 8 hours, 51 minutesRead by: Tracy MIckens HundleySubjects: African American Topics, Human Relations, Historical Fiction, Family, LGBTQ+
Follows two black sisters–Nettie, a missionary, and Celie, raped by her father and married to a cruel man. Nettie’s letters do not reach Celie, and Celie’s shame is so great that she writes only to God. Anniversary edition includes Walker’s 1992 preface. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 1982.
New York : Harcourt, c1982.
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This group currently does not have a scheduled facilitator and we will continue to pick and discuss books as a group.
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The Fiction Old and New book group is thrilled to welcome guest host Sally Rosenthal on Friday, January 3, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. to discuss “Crow Lake” by Mary Lawson,
DB 59867 (BARD annotation below). We hope that you can join us to discuss this compelling story.
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Crow Lake DB 59867
Lawson, Mary. Reading time 7 hours, 39 minutes.
Read by Martha Harmon Pardee. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Family; Psychological Fiction
Description: After their parents die, teens Matt and Luke Morrison give up their own university plans to raise two young sisters, Kate and Bo, in the northern Ontario badlands. Twenty years later, Kate, now a professor, returns to resolve past differences at a family reunion. Some strong language. 2002.
This book can be found on Bookshare at this link:
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Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein
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Help wanted: a novel DB 121085
Waldman, Adelle. Reading time 9 hours, 27 minutes.
Read by Katie Boothe. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Humor; Human Relations; General
Description: “Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn’t schedule them for enough hours–most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility of advancement. The members of Team Movement–including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her “cool kid” status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path–band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion.” — Provided by publisher Strong language.
This book can be found on Bookshare at this link:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5915534?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUhlbHAlMkJXYW50ZWQ
Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein
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I have some questions for you DB 112960
Makkai, Rebecca. Reading time 14 hours, 8 minutes.
Read by Julia Whelan. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories; Bestsellers; Psychological Fiction
Description: “A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.
This book can be found on Bookshare at this link:
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Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein
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Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American DBC 11736Noriega, DeAnna Quietwater. Reading time 1 hour, 15 minutes.Read by Laurie Coiley Massing. A production of Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind.
Subjects: Biography of Persons with Disabilities; Family
Description: In Dogwood Blossom, the author invokes a simpler time and how it was growing up in a world that didn’t always accept her. Poverty and oppression are no match for the strong bonds among the members of this hardworking and loving family. The life lessons here will resonate with readers young and old. Adult. Unrated.
Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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We hope that you can join us to discuss this human relations and romance audiobook by best-selling Black author Kennedy Ryan.
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Before I let go: a Skyland novel DB 111356Ryan, Kennedy. Reading time 13 hours, 48 minutes.Read by Jakobi Diem Wesleigh Siobhan. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Psychological Fiction; RomanceDescription: “Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage. Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another…and then more. It’s hot. It’s illicit. It’s all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
This book can be found on Bookshare at this link:https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5810363?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUJlZm9yZSUyQkklMkJMZXQlMkJHbw
Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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Here is the NLS annotation:Late bloomers: a novel DBC 29005 Varadarajan, Deepa. Reading time 12 hours, 16 minutes.• Read by Shahjehan Khan Mehr Dudeja Deepa Samuel. A production of Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program.
Subjects: Humor; Family
Description: “After thirty-six years of marriage, recently divorced Suresh and Lata Raman find themselves starting new paths in life. Suresh is trying to navigate the world of online dating on a website that caters to Indians and is striking out at every turn until he meets a mysterious, devastatingly attractive younger woman named Malika, who seems to be smitten with him. Meanwhile, Lata is enjoying her newfound independence after decades in an arranged marriage, but she’s caught off guard when a professor in his early sixties starts to flirt with her. Priya, the former couple’s unmarried daughter, thinks her father’s online pursuits are distasteful but hides a secret affair of her own, while their son Nikesh pretends at a seemingly perfect marriage with his law-firm colleague and their young son, but hides the truth of what his relationship really entails” — Provided by publisher. Commercial audiobook. Adult. Unrated.Our facilitator is Michelle Bernstein ([email protected]).
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The frozen river: a novel DB 117781
Lawhon, Ariel. Reading time 15 hours, 8 minutes.Read by Ariel Lawhon Jane Oppenheimer. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Historical Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories
Description: “Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein
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We hope that you can join us to discuss this historical fiction audiobook.
Here is the NLS annotation:Loot DB 115153James, Tania. Reading time 8 hours, 45 minutes.Read by Shawn K. Jain. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Historical FictionDescription: “Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to build a giant tiger automaton for Tipu’s sons, a gift to commemorate their return from British captivity. His fate–and the fate of the wooden tiger he helps create–will mirror the vicissitudes of nations and dynasties ravaged by war across India and Europe. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Lucien du Leze, Abbas hones his craft, learns French, and meets Jehanne, the daughter of a French expatriate. When Du Leze is finally permitted to return home to Rouen, he invites Abbas to come along as his apprentice. But by the time Abbas travels to Europe, Tipu’s palace has been looted by British forces, and the tiger automaton has disappeared. To prove himself, Abbas must retrieve the tiger from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook..Your facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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The Fiction Old and New book group is thrilled to welcome author Tracey Lange to our Friday, April 5, 2024 meeting at 8 p.m. She will be discussing her two family novels, “We are the Brennans”, DB 104795 and “The Connellys of County Down”, DB 116746. We hope you can join us for this amazing event.
Here are the NLS annotations:1. The Connellys of County Down DB 116746Lange, Tracey. Reading time 9 hours, 23 minutes.Read by Barrie Kreinik. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Family; Women
Description: “When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings, who are both busy with their own problems. Her brother, a single dad, struggles with the ongoing effects of a brain injury he sustained years ago, and her sister’s fragile facade of calm and order is cracking under the burden of big secrets. Life becomes even more complicated when the cop who put her in prison keeps showing up unannounced, leaving Tara to wonder what he wants from her now. While she works to build a new career and hold her family together, Tara finds a chance at love in a most unlikely place. But when the Connellys’ secrets start to unravel and threaten her future, they all must face their worst fears and come clean, or risk losing each other forever.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
2. We are the Brennans DB 104795Lange, Tracey. Reading time 9 hours, 41 minutes.Read by Barrie Kreinik. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: General; Psychological Fiction
Description: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. She deserted them all–and her high school sweetheart–five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.Here is the Bookshare link to The Connellys of County Down:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5496953?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQkNvbm5lbGx5cyUyQm9mJTJCQ291bnR5JTJCRG93bgYour facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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Here is the NLS annotation:Land of milk and honey DB 116953Zhang, C Pam. Reading time 8 hours, 7 minutes.Read by Eunice Wong. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Science and Technology; General; Women
Description: “A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.Bookshare Link to this bookhttps://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5834395?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPWxhbmQlMkJvZiUyQm1pbGslMkJhbmQlMkJob25leQ
Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein,([email protected]).
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We hope that you can join us to discuss this psychological novel from acclaimed author Emma Cline.
Here is the NLS annotation:The guest: a novel DB 114407Cline, Emma. Reading time 8 hours, 39 minutes.Read by Carlotta Brentan. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Psychological Fiction
Description: “Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein,([email protected]).
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Here is the NLS annotation:We are the Brennans DB 104795Lange, Tracey. Reading time 9 hours, 41 minutes.Read by Barrie Kreinik. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: General; Psychological Fiction
Description: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. She deserted them all–and her high school sweetheart–five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein,([email protected]).
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The Fiction Old and New book group is meeting on Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. to discuss “Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center, D B C 1 1 9 3 9. We hope that you can join us to discuss this latest novel from one of our favorite authors.
Here is the NLS annotation:Happiness for beginners DBC 11939Center, Katherine. Reading time 9 hours, 49 minutes.Read by Leslie Rogers. A production of Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program.
Subjects: General
Description: A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It’s supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother’s even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can’t imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen’s well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming. Some strong language.
Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein,([email protected]).
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The Fiction Old and New book group is honored to have guest host LeDon lead the discussion of Dennis Lehane’s latest book, “Small Mercies”, DB 1 1 4 4 5 6 on Friday, November 3, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. We hope that you can join us to discuss this compelling suspense audiobook.
Here is the NLS annotation:Small mercies: a novel DB 114456Lehane, Dennis. Reading time 10 hours, 27 minutes.Read by Robin Miles. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Historical Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories
Description: “In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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We hope that you can join us to discuss this entertaining audiobook.
Here is the NLS annotation:Warrior girl unearthed DB 114761Boulley, Angeline. Reading time 11 hours, 34 minutes.Read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories; Young Adult
Description: “With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family’s involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people’s inheritance.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high and older readers.Your facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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Here is the NLS annotation:How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: a novel DB 110919Cruz, Angie. Reading time 6 hours, 19 minutes.Read by Kimberly M. Wetherell Rossmery Almonte. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: FamilyDescription: “Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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Here is the NLS annotation:The Lehman trilogy: a novel DB 101774Massini, Stefano Dixon, Richard. Reading time 13 hours, 43 minutes.Read by Edoardo Ballerini. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.
Subjects: Historical Fiction; Family
Description: Henry Lehman leaves Bavaria for the United States to make a better life. He builds a textile dynasty in Alabama. Brothers Emanuel and Mayer expand the family’s holdings. The generations of the Lehman family span one hundred fifty years. Translated from the original 2016 Italian edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein([email protected]).
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