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Meeting Minutes -- February 16, 2006
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, James Fausone, at 7:30 p.m.
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Meeting Minutes -- January 19, 2006
Canton Public Library Board Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2006 7:30 p.m.The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, James Fausone, at 7:20 p.m.
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Connections Newsletter - Jan/Feb 2006
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2005 Titles
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Kit, Large Print Kit)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Kit)
The Giant's House: A Romance by Elizabeth McCracken (Kit)
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
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Year 2005 Top Movie Picks
The Aviator
(Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda)Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biography documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. (DVD and Videocassette)
Batman Begins
(Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson)The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. (DVD and Videocassette)
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Year 2005 Top Audiobook Picks
1776 by David McCullough
(CD and Cassette)In this stirring audiobook, McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence when the whole American cause was riding on their success. Read by the author.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
(CD)Utilizing diversified case studies, Gladwell reveals that what we think as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how decision-making is based on the few particular details that we focus. Read by the author.
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Year 2005 Top Nonfiction Picks
Woman in the Mirror by Richard Avedon: An unparalleled portrait of women brings together 125 tritone photographs, taken over a tumultuous half century of changing social institutions and values, cultural ideals, popular styles, and high fashion, accompanied by an incisive essay on the life and work of the great photographer.
I'm Not the New Me by Wendy McClure: A humorous but poignant chronicle of the American weight-loss culture draws on the author's online sites Pound and Candyboots to describe her battle with self-esteem and weight, from dealing with a family legacy of fat and drastic surgery, developing self-confidence, to struggling to understand oneself both after the weight loss and if you gain it back.
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Year 2005 Top Fiction Picks
Bachelor Boys by Kate Saunders: Saunders (The Marrying Game) humorously captures the love affair between the boisterous British Darling family and their lifelong girl-next-door, Cassie; but her beloved Phoebe Darling is dying and comes to Cassie with one last request: Will Cassie help find wives for her sons, two gorgeous, sexy, but wildly impractical bachelors still living in their mother's basement flat?
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Connections Newsletter - Nov/Dec 2005
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Connections Newsletter - Sep/Oct 2005
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Connections Newsletter - Jul/Aug 2005
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Connections Newsletter - May/Jun 2005
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Connections Newsletter - Mar/Apr 2005
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Connections Newsletter - Jan/Feb 2005
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Year 2004 Top Movie Picks
Calendar Girls
(Helen Mirren, Julie Walters)The prim and proper ladies of the Yorkshire Women's Institute breathe new life into one of their fundraising campaigns by posing nude in their annual calendar. (DVD and Videocassette)
The Day After Tomorrow
(Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal)A climatologist and his family must find a way to survive the devastation caused by an extreme shift in the global climate. (DVD and Videocassette)
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