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Time was, Time is… September 2012
It's back to school for millions of students this month. What's happening in our classrooms?
Creating innovators: the making of young people who will change the world by Tony Wagner
Lunch wars: how to start a school food revolution and win the battle for our children's health by Amy Kalafa
Boys and girls learn differently!: a guide for teachers and parents by Michael Gurian
Murder Will Out, September 2012
Did you miss these recent Mysteries?
Blues in the night by Dick Lochte
The cold room by Robert Knightly
Never play another man's game by Mike Knowles
Murder in the 11th house: a Starlight Detective Agency mystery by Mitchell Scott Lewis
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Look What's In Large Print: September 2012
Mike Wallace [Large print]: a life by Peter Rader
The magic room: [large print] a story about the love we wish for our daughters by Jeffrey Zaslow
Lots of candles, plenty of cake [Large print] by Anna Quindlen
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Book Club Choices: September 2012
Has your book group tried any short story collections? You could choose an author to concentrate on or assign a story to each member, or simply assign a collection and let your members report back to the group.
Among the missing by Dan Chaon
Don't tell anyone by Frederick Busch
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What We're Reading: September 2012
21st century houses: 150 of the world's best by [editor] Robyn Beaver
The borrower: a novel by Rebecca Makkai
Carlisle versus Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle by Lars Anderson
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Older Adults: September 2012
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September is Classical Music Month
—William J. Clinton, President of the United States, 1993-2001Classical music speaks both to the mind and to the heart, giving us something to think about as well as to experience.
Celebrate opening night at one of the many concerts offered throughout the month of September.The painting, featured above, is Attributes of Music by Anne Vallayer-Coster (1770)
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Author Talk at Nicola's Books
Sacrilege: a thriller by S.J. Parris — On Monday, August 27 at 7:00 PM at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor. Dr. Darcy Lockman will talk about her challenging, yet fulfilling, journey to become a psychotherapist. She received her Ph.D at Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She is currently a practicing psychotherapist in New York where she lives with her family.
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Look What's In Large Print: August 2012
If you are a fan of James Patterson's Alex Cross novels or enjoy the humor in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum stories you might like these...
Cinnamon roll murder [large print] by Joanne Fluke
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Older Adults August 2012
If you, like so many other grandparents are hosting your grandchildren this summer 
Canton Public Library offers a wide variety of programs for babies through teens this summer. Looking for more ideas? Check out the Foundation for Grandparents' website to find suggestions for activities and tips on grandparenting.
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Book Group Choices August 2012
Don't let your book group miss these:
The tenderness of wolves: a novel by Stef Penney
A three dog life by Abigail Thomas
Moral disorder: stories by Margaret Atwood
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
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- Adults
- Seniors
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Books
- Biography
- Historical Fiction
- Inspirational Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- May We Suggest
- Argentina
- brain disorders
- brain injuries
- Canada
- dogs
- family
- frontiers
- hit and run accidents
- human rights
- Iowa
- Male Friendship
- memoirs
- missing persons
- pets
- short stories
- trappers
What We're Reading August 2012
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
The innocents by Francesca Segal
God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine by Victoria Sweet
The lifeboat: a novel by Charlotte Rogan
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Time was, Time is… August 2012
Wild Bill Hickock was killed on August 2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee won her second Olympic gold in the heptathlon. Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president on August 9, 1974 following President Nixon's resignation. Gold was discovered near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory on August 16 by George Carmack. Fannie Farmer opened Miss Farmer's School of Cookery in Boston on August 23, 1902.
Wild Bill Hickok [videodisc]: the gentleman of the West by Greystone Communications for the A & E Network
A kind of grace: the autobiography of the world's greatest female athlete by Jackie Joyner-Kersee with Sonja Steptoe
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Murder Will Out, August 2012
Mr. Churchill's secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death by James Runcie
Boston cream by Howard Shrier
The cat, the wife and the weapon: a cats in trouble mystery by Leann Sweeney
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Murder Will Out
Have you ever read a book, loved it, and can't understand why no one else has read this wonderful author? Here are some of my unknowns, or little knowns, you really should try: Deborah Grabien's JP Kincaid Chronicles, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza's Brazilian Inspector Espinoza, Margaret Frazer's Joliffe series is a spin-off of the Sister Frevisse stories, and fans of Stieg Larsson's books should try Ake Edwardson's Inspector Erik Winter.
Rock & roll never forgets by Deborah Grabien
The silence of the rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
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