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2025: Martha Hall Kelly<\/h4>\n

\"\"\"\"Martha\u2019s debut novel Lilac Girls<\/em><\/a> became a New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller the week it was published in 2016 and then went on to sell over two million copies and publish in 50 countries. The novel is based on the true story of 72 Polish women who were imprisoned and experimented on at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and how Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist brought them to the U.S. for rehabilitation and the trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Martha followed Lilac Girls<\/em> with\u00a0Lost Roses<\/em> about Caroline\u2019s mother, and Sunflower Sisters<\/em> about Caroline\u2019s great grandmother, which also became Instant New York Times<\/em> best sellers.<\/p>\n

The Golden Doves<\/em>,<\/i> which returns to WWII is now available in paperback wherever books are sold and her upcoming novel The Martha\u2019s Vineyard Beach and Book Club<\/em> arrives spring 2025.<\/p>\n

Martha grew up in Massachusetts and now splits her time between Litchfield, Connecticut, Hobe Sound, Florida, and New York City.<\/p>\n

2024: Angie Kim
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\n\"\"Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award and the ITW Thriller Award, and was named one of the 100 best mysteries and thrillers of all time by Time, and one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the Today show. Happiness Falls, her second novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a book club pick for Good Morning America, Barnes & Noble, Belletrist, and Book of the Month Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t call the police right away.\u201d Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing.<\/p>\n

Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything\u2014which is why she isn\u2019t initially concerned when her father and younger\"\" brother Eugene don\u2019t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia\u2019s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.<\/p>\n

What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of love, language, and human connection, Happiness Falls is a mystery, a family drama, and a novel of profound philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut Miracle Creek, Angie Kim turns the missing person story into something wholly original, creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand each other.<\/p>\n

2023: William Kent Krueger<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University\u2014before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He\u2019s been married for nearly fifty years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.<\/p>\n

Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O\u2019Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage\u2014part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His last nine novels were all\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestsellers.\"\"<\/p>\n

Ordinary Grace<\/em>, his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year.\u00a0The companion novel,\u00a0This Tender Land<\/em>, was published in September 2019 and spent nearly six months on the New York Times<\/em> bestseller list.<\/p>\n

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2022: Nathaniel Philbrick
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\"\"Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University\u2019s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. After working as an editor at Sailing World magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind, and Yaahting: A Parody.\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1986, Philbrick moved to Nantucket with his wife Melissa and their two children.\u00a0 In 1994, he published his first book about the island\u2019s history, Away Off Shore<\/em>, followed in 1998 by a study of the Nantucket\u2019s native legacy, Abram\u2019s Eyes. He was the founding director of Nantucket\u2019s Egan Maritime Institute and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.<\/p>\n

“Does George Washington still matter?<\/span><\/span>
Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues <\/span><\/span>for Washington\u2019s unique contribution to the <\/span><\/span>forging of America by retracing his journey as <\/span><\/span>a new president through all thirteen former <\/span><\/span>colonies, which were now an unsure nation. <\/span><\/span>Travels with George<\/span><\/span> marks a new first-person <\/span><\/span>voice for Philbrick, weaving history and <\/span><\/span>personal reflection into a single narrative.”<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
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2021: Elizabeth Letts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nElizabeth Letts\u00a0is the #1\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Eighty-Dollar Champion<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Perfect Horse<\/em>, which won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for research nonfiction, as well as the novel\u00a0Finding Dorothy<\/em>. She lives in Southern California.<\/p>\n

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This richly imagined novel tells the story behind\u00a0The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/i>, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum\u2019s intrepid wife, Maud.<\/p>\n

Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband\u2019s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank\u2019s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book\u2014because she\u2019s the only one left who knows its secrets.<\/p>\n

But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette\u2019s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired\u00a0The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/i>. Judy reminds Maud of a young\u00a0girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her\u2014the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Letts is a master at discovering and researching a rich historical story and transforming it into a page-turner.\u00a0Finding Dorothy<\/i>\u00a0is the result of Letts\u2019s journey into the amazing lives of Frank and Maud Baum. Written as fiction but based closely on the truth, Elizabeth Letts\u2019s new book tells a story of love, loss, inspiration, and perseverance, set in America\u2019s heartland.<\/p>\n

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2019: Andre Dubus III<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andre Dubus III is the author of seven books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories<\/em>, Bluesman<\/em>, Dirty Love<\/em>, and the New York \"\"Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog<\/em>, The Garden of Last Days<\/em>, Gone So Long<\/em> and his memoir, Townie<\/em>, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times “Editors Choice”. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994 and The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog<\/em> was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly.\"\"<\/p>\n

As a narrator of his audio books, he has won an Audiofile \u201cBest Voices of the Year\u201d award for his 2011 memoir, Townie<\/em>, (Blackstone Audiobooks), a 2013 \u201cEarphones\u201d award for Dirty Love<\/em>, (Audible), and is a 2014 Finalist for an \u201cAudie Award\u201d for his short story collection, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories<\/em>, (Blackstone Audiobooks).<\/p>\n

Mr. Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Two Pushcart Prizes, and he is a 2012 recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.<\/p>\n

\"\"Andre Dubus III\u2019s first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.<\/p>\n

Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades.<\/p>\n

Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn\u2019t remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear.<\/p>\n

Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long<\/em> explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become, and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.<\/p>\n

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2018:<\/strong> The Other Einstein, <\/strong>by Marie Benedict<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"\"Mileva Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are already wives, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mileva has been smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage.And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.\u200bTHE OTHER EINSTEIN is the story of Einstein\u2019s wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. It offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein\u2019s enormous shadow.<\/p>\n

Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s\"einsteinauthor\"<\/a> premier law firms. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College with a focus in History and Art History, and a cum laude graduate of the Boston University School of Law. While practicing as a lawyer, Marie dreamed of a fantastical job unearthing the hidden historical stories of women — and finally found it when she tried her hand at writing. She embarked on a new, narratively connected series of historical novels with THE OTHER EINSTEIN<\/a>, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein’s first wife, a physicist herself, and the role she might have played in his theories.\u00a0Her next novel in this series — CARNEGIE’S MAID<\/a> — was released in January 2018.\u00a0Writing as Heather Terrell, Marie also published the historical novels The Chrysalis<\/a>, The Map Thief<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0Brigid of Kildare<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2017:<\/strong> A Piece of the World, <\/strong>by Christina Baker Kline<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"PieceoftheWorld_FINAL-COVER<\/a>To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family\u2019s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train<\/em>, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America\u2019s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World<\/em> is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.<\/p>\n

Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine. She is a \"author<\/a>graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing.\u00a0She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women\u2019s studies at Yale, NYU, and the University of Virginia, and served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years. She is a recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \u00a0She is on the advisory board of Roots & Wings, a foster-care organization in NJ; The Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor, ME; and the Montclair Animal Shelter, and supports a number of libraries and other associations. Kline lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David Kline, and three sons, Hayden, Will, and Eli. \u00a0She spends as much time as possible in an even older house in Southwest Harbor, Maine.<\/p>\n

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2016: The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"boston<\/a>Anita Diamant’s newest work of fiction in 2015 was\u00a0The Boston Girl<\/em>. Addie Baum is that Boston girl,\u00a0born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Addie\u2019s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can\u2019t imagine\u2014a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women; a world where women finish high school, go to college, have a career, and find true love. The Boston Girl<\/em>\u00a0begins when Addie\u2019s twenty-two year old granddaughter asks, \u201cHow did you get to be the woman you are today?
\nAnita \u00a0was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey until she was twelve \"anita<\/a>years old when her family moved to Denver, Colorado. She graduated from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis with a degree in comparative literature and earned a Master\u2019s in American literature from Binghamton University in upstate New York.<\/p>\n

In 1997, Diamant published her first work of fiction. Inspired by a few lines from Genesis, The Red Tent<\/em> tells the story an obscure and overlooked character named Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob and Leah. The Red Tent<\/em> became a word-of-mouth bestseller thanks to reader recommendations, book groups, and support from independent bookstores. In 2001, the Independent Booksellers Alliance honored The Red Tent<\/em> as the \u201cBooksense Best Fiction\u201d of the year. The Red Tent<\/em> has been published in more than 25 countries \"red<\/a>world wide, including Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. In 2014, the novel was adapted as a two-part, four-hour miniseries by Lifetime TV.<\/p>\n

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2015: What Strange Creatures by Emily Arsenault<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cover<\/a>The Battle siblings are used to disappointment. Seven years after starting her PhD program\u2014one marriage and divorce, three cats, and a dog later\u2014Theresa still hasn\u2019t finished her dissertation. Instead of a degree, she\u2019s got a houseful of adoring pets and a dead-end copywriting job for a local candle company.<\/p>\n

Jeff, her so-called genius older brother, doesn\u2019t have it together, either. Creative, and loyal, he\u2019s also aimless in work and love. But his new girlfriend, Kim, a pretty waitress in her twenties, appears smitten. When Theresa agrees to dog-sit Kim\u2019s puggle for a weekend, she has no idea that it is the beginning of a terrifying nightmare that will shatter her quiet academic world. Soon Kim\u2019s body is found in the woods, and Jeff becomes the prime suspect. Though the evidence is overwhelming, Theresa knows that her brother is not a murderer. As she investigates Kim\u2019s past, she uncovers a treacherous secret involving politics, murder, and scandal\u2014and becomes entangled in a potentially dangerous romance. But the deeper she falls into this troubling case, the more it becomes clear that, in trying to save her brother\u2019s life, she may be sacrific\"emily<\/a>ing her own.<\/p>\n

Emily Arsenault is also the author of The Broken Teaglass<\/em>, In Search of the Rose Notes<\/em>, and Miss Me When I’m Gone<\/em>. She lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and daughter.<\/p>\n

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2014: The Obituary Writer, by Ann Hood<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras.<\/p>\n

On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, an uncompromising young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless marriage or follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1\"Ann_Hood\"906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between Claire and Vivien will change the life of one of them in unexpected and extraordinary ways. Part literary mystery and part love story,\u00a0The Obituary Writer<\/em>\u00a0examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of grief, regret, and hope.<\/p>\n

Quiet Corner readers gathered at Pomfret School, June 17, 2014, to hear the stories of author Ann Hood. \u00a0She spoke of her childhood desire to be an author, and shared much from her own life,\u00a0both the sad and the humorous moments. She has written seven books (to date) and her awards include\u00a0two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing Awards, Best American Spiritual Writing and Travel Writing Awards, and\u00a0a Boston Public Library Literary Light Award.
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2013: Tag Man, by Archer Mayor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, \u201cYou\u2019re it.\u201d There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits,) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The Press loves the story\u00a0and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what\u2019s he actually doing? In fact, he\u2019s quickly running for his life, for what he discovers in one of these houses appears to be proof of a heinous string of murders. But is it? Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence,\u00a0while the\u00a0burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man\u2019s-land between the police and the villains. With no one knowing what to believe, or who to trust, with Tag Man running for his life in a way he never imagined possible, as no one knows who\u2019s watching as they sleep,\u00a0or who truly did what, the\u00a0Tag Man<\/i>\u00a0is critically acclaimed author Archer Mayor at his very finest. \u00a0~ from MacMillan<\/a>\"Archer<\/a><\/p>\n

NYT bestselling author Archer Mayor entertained\u00a0QCReaders for the evening at Pomfret School, June 18, 2013. Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune<\/i> describes as \u201cthe best police procedurals being written in America.\u201d He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction\u2014the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In addition, Archer is a death investigator for Vermont\u2019s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detective for the Windham County (VT) Sheriff\u2019s Office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and he travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops. He also has 25 years experience as a volunteer firefighter\/EMT.<\/p>\n

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2012: The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, aster for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it\u2019s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.<\/p>\n

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Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes that she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market inspires her to question what\u2019s been missing in her life. And when she\u2019s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it\u2019s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.<\/p>\n

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We had a fantastic evening with author Vanessa Diffenbaugh at Tyrone Farm, Pomfret, CT, Tuesday, June 19, 2012.\u00a0Vanessa’s presentation was every bit as engaging as her book, The Language of Flowers!\u00a0Our guests , readers from fifteen Quiet Corer libraries, were seated under the tent overlooking a beautiful Pomfret panarama.\u00a0\u00a0Members of\u00a0The Woodstock Garden Association offered guided tours of the beautiful Tyrone Farm gardens.<\/p>\n

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2011: Bill Warrington’s Last Chance, by James King<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A rich multigenerational saga, Bill Warrington’s Last \u00a0Chance<\/em>, soars with humor,\u00a0\u00a0compassion, and unflinching insight into the pain and joy of all family life, while the promise of a new generation shines bright against the ravages of aging in a man who does not go gently . . . anywhere.<\/p>\n

On June 21, 2011, CT author\u00a0James King<\/a>\u00a0joined readers from twelve Quiet Corner libraries for an evening at\u00a0Tyrone Farm<\/a>\u00a0in Pomfret, CT. King shared insights into the characters of his novel, his writing process and his 30-year path to publication. Our door prize was a beautiful quilt, created by Alison Boutaugh of Thompson Public Library, and a portion of the proceeds from our ticket sales was donated to Alzeimer’s research.<\/p>\n

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\"In<\/a>2010: In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words:\u00a0Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants<\/em>. Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.\u00a0~ from the publisher<\/p>\n

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Ten Libraries participated in 2010, our inaugural year. Each library hosted a book discussion and other events using the themes of Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food<\/em>. Our closing event was Quiet Corner Eats! held at Thompson Public Library, October 2, 2010, where we hosted a vendor showcase for area agencies and businesses promoting good health through a conscientious diet, and enjoyed presentations and cooking demonstrations from Rob Landolphi, Denise Chicoine and Amy Gronus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025: Martha Hall Kelly Martha\u2019s debut novel Lilac Girls became a New York Times\u00a0bestseller the week it was published in 2016 and then went on to sell over two million copies and publish in 50 countries. The novel is based …<\/p>\n

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