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Book Talk & Signing: Cascade by Maryanne O'Hara
Submitted by lmoulton on Tuesday August 14, 2012

CASCADE -- THE DEBUT NOVEL by MARYANNE O’HARA 

An artist in the 1930s finds herself caught in the age-old

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History HiJinks Book Club: K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Kruschev America's Most Unlikely Tourist, Peter Carlson
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

Although Punch magazine famously commented on the humor of Nikita Khrushchev's desire to visit Disneyland during his 1959 trip to America, 

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History Hijinks Book Club: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues.

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History Hijinks Book Club: Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America by Alison J. Clarke

Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper’s polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware

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Personal Development Book Club: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 07, 2012

With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.

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Personal Development Book Club: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 07, 2012

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. 

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RI International Film Fest Screening: Beyond the Boundaries
Submitted by lmoulton on Wednesday July 25, 2012

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES, Yonaton Nir, 2011

Four Disabled Israeli veteran soldiers are part of a group invited to Aspen CO to

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RI International Film Fest Screening: Die Thomaner (St. Thomas Boys Choir)
Submitted by lmoulton on Wednesday July 25, 2012

Die Thomaner (St. Thomas Boys Choir) 

In 2012 the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig celebrates its 800th

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RI International Film Fest Screening: Cafeteria Man
Submitted by lmoulton on Wednesday July 25, 2012

NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE - Cafeteria Man
Richard Chisolm, 2011

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RI International Film Fest Screening: Speed - In Search of Lost Time
Submitted by lmoulton on Wednesday July 25, 2012

Speed - In Search of Lost Time, Florian Opitz, 2011 

 'My experience with time by now is limited to

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