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Father of the Rain, Lily King
Monday, August 23, 2010 at 7:00pm

In her most ambitious novel to date, author Lily King sets her sharply insightful family drama in an upper-middle-class East Coast suburb where she traces a complex and volatile father-daughter relationship from the 1970s to the present day. A provocative and masterfully told story of one woman's life-long, primal loyalty to her father, Father of the Rain is a spellbinding journey into the emotional complexities, mercurial contours, and magnetic pull of families.

The New York Times Book Review says: "King is a beautiful writer, with equally strong gifts for dialogue and internal monologue. Silently or aloud, her characters betray the inner tumult they conceal as they try to keep themselves together, wanting others to see them as whole. Whether they're children, teenagers or adults in their 40s, 50s and older, they demonstrate through their confusions that what we like to call coming-of-age is a process that doesn't always end."

Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. She studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Syracuse University, where she won the Raymond Carver Prize for fiction. A MacDowell Colony fellow, her stories have appeared in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. Her first novel, The Pleasing Hour, was a Book Sense selection, a New York Times Notable Book, and winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Lily King is also the author of The English Teacher, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a People magazine Critics' Choice. A Whiting Award winner and recipient of the Maine Fiction Award, she lives with her family in Maine.


"Coffee Party" Activist Author Erin McHugh
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 7:00pm
Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics are You Swallowing?, Erin McHugh

In 2009, disgruntled Americans started a new movement called the Tea Party. Named after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when colonists decried "Taxation Without Representation", the new Tea Party originally lashed out at President Obama's new stimulus package. Protests, marches, even a convention abounded, until January 26th of this year when Annabel Park, angered at the media's portrayal of Republicans as the only citizens who cared about government accountability and issues that affect all of us, said, "Enough already." Just like that, the Coffee Party was born. Since then, the Coffee Party Movement has catapulted past 200,000 Facebook followers, and hosted hundreds of organizational Coffee Party gatherings.

Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid is the one book that examines the issues and helps Americans tell the parties apart while they laugh all the way to the polls. Filled with party history and characters, side-by-side comparisons and contradictions, as well as memorable quotes, slogans, and scorecards, this little guide spells it all out and injects a little humor back into the political conversation.

Erin McHugh is a former publishing executive and the author of nearly twenty books. She first went canvassing door to door for a political candidate when she was still too young to vote.


Special Guest Story Time Readers
Recommended for Children Ages 3-5

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 10:00am
Colleen Roderiques is a preschool teacher at Dartmouth Early Learning Center and has been enjoying spending the summer with her husband and two daughters. She will be joining us this Wednesday to read stories and lead a discussion on what we can do to take better care of our planet. Make your own truffula forest to take home!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 10:00am
Laura Gardner is an experienced storyteller who loves great children's literature. She has previously been seen dancing and singing as the children's librarian at the Millicent Library in Fairhaven and currently works at Dartmouth Middle School as a school librarian. Join Laura for stories and songs in our Bean & Leaf Cafe.