Cedar Falls Public Library & Friends of the Cedar Falls Public Library present:
CFPL NovelT News
JULY/AUGUST 2017
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7/8
Friends of the Library Tuesday Morning Book List
The Friends of the Cedar ·
Falls Library morning book
discussion group meets on
the last Tuesday of the
month at 10:15 am unless
noted. The following is their ·
upcoming reading list:
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August 29, 2017—
Pride and
Prejudice by Jane
Austen
or Longbourn by Jo
Baker
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September 26, 2017—
Moonglow by Michael ·
Chabon
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October 31, 2017—
Lab Girl by Hope
Jahren
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November 28, 2017—
A Gentleman in
Moscow by Amor
Towles
December 19, 2017
(third Tuesday)—
A Man Called Ove by
Fredrik Backman
The Invention of
Nature: Alexander
von Humboldt's New
World by Andrea Wulf
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April 24, 2018—
Select books for
2018-2019
January 30, 2018—
What Money Can't
Buy: The Moral
Limits of Markets
by Michael J. Sandel
February 27, 2018—
The High Mountains
of Portugal by Yann
Martel
March 27, 2018—
Friends of the Library Tuesday Evening Book List
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September 5, 2017—
The Rent
Collector by Camron
Wright
·
October 3, 2017—
The Immortal
Irishman by Timothy
Egan
·
The Friends of the Cedar
Falls Library evening book
discussion meets the first
Tuesday at 7:00 pm. The
following is their upcoming
·
reading list:
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January 2, 2018—
Bottomland by
Michelle Hoover
·
February 6, 2018—
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
·
March 6, 2018—
Mary Coin by Marisa
Silver
November 14, 2017
Changed due to Election
·
on November 7th)—
A Lantern in Her
Hand by Bess Streeter
Aldrich
·
December 5, 2017—
On Thin Icing by Ellie
Alexander
April 3, 2018—
Remarkable
Creatures by Tracy
Chevalier
May 1, 2018— Decide
book list for 2018 -2019
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Local Author Showcase
The Local Authors Showcase kicks off on September
6 at 7pm with author Jim O’Loughlin. Join us in
“reading local” on the first Wednesday of each month
to hear some of our local talent talk about their
writing. And, if you’re a local author who would like
to be included, we still want you! See the application
at www.cedar-falls.lib.ia.us Just click on the “Local
Author Showcase” icon.
Books Made into Movies
The following are upcoming movies
that are based on books:
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Call Me by Your Name by André
Aciman. A summer romance
between an adolescent boy and a
friend of his parents.
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Murder on the Orient Express by
Agatha Christie. Detective
Hercule Poirot investigates the
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murder of a wealthy American
traveling on the famed Orient
Express.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du
Maurier. An orphan becomes an
heir after his guardian dies
suddenly in Florence.
Thank You for Your Service by
David Finkel. Looks at what
happens to soldiers once they
return to the U.S. after their
deployments end.
story is told from several different
viewpoints, we learn how Auggie
sees himself and how others see
him.
interconnected.
The Dark Tower by Stephen
King. A young man is transported
to a realm called Mid-World,
where he joins a quest to save the
land.
It by Stephen King. An evil entity
hunts children, usually appearing
as a killer clown to exploit their
fears.
Tulip Fever by Deborah
Moggach. A love affair between
the young wife of a wealthy
merchant and the artist hired to
paint her portrait.
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The Mountain Between Us by
Charles Martin. Two people
survive a plane crash, but are
badly injured. Stranded, they are
forced to trust each other in order
to find safety in the deserted
wilderness.
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The Snowman by Jo Nesbø.
Detective Harry Hole investigates
a woman's disappearance.
Let it Snow: Three Holiday
Romances by Maureen Johnson,
John Green and Lauren Myracle.
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Three stories each of which details
a tale of holiday romance. The
stories are humorous and
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Centers on a mysterious
environmental disaster zone called
Area X.
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette
Walls. A memoir that recounts
Walls' childhood with an alcoholic
father and artist mother and how it
affected her as a adult.
Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Auggie
has a facial deformity that cause
his schoolmates to shun him. The
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