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Past Manchester Reads Programs
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Manchester Reads 2008
Celebrates Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday
1809-2009
February-March 2008
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February-March 2008 Choose a classic book on Lincoln, fiction or non-fiction, or one of the many new books being released for the bicentennial. The Library will offer many books and audiobooks on the subject of Lincoln. Then sign up for a book discussion group in March. Contact Mike O'Connor, Assistant Director, 978-526-2017, to sign up. |
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Lincoln Exhibit in Reading Room courtesy of the
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Robert Foster Discusses the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Mr. Foster is a member of the Civil War Roundtables of Massachusetts and the Lincoln Group of Boston. He will discuss the Lincoln-Douglas debates. |
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Al Smith on the Final Burial of Lincoln Mr. Foster is a member of the Civil War Roundtables of Massachusetts |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Salem Zouave Soldier Program
The Salem Zouaves were a local Zouave organization that fought in many battles of the Civil War. The Zouaves wore distinctive and brightly colored uniforms. Paul Kenworthy, of the Civil War Roundtables of the North Shore will appear at the Library on Monday, March 10 at 6:30 PM, in an authentic Salem Zouave uniform. Mr. Kenworthy will talk about the life of a Civil War “grunt,” as well as how the grunts felt towards their Commander-in-Chief, Abraham Lincoln. This program is part of Manchester Reads Lincoln 2008. Pick up a book on Lincoln at the Circulation Desk and sign up for a book discussion group. What better time to read, think, talk about and reflect on the achievements of Lincoln than on the Bicentennial of his birth? |
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Booth Family Plot in Rosedale Cemetery
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Pentominoes Book Group visited the Rosedale Cemetery to view the Booth
Family Plot. Mrs Proctor, Archivist, Manchester Historical Society,
discusses the Booth Family in Manchester.|
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Patricia Perry as Mary Todd Lincoln
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A Reading from the Civil War Letters of Clara Barton Lynne McKenney Lydick is an actress and historical impersonator. She has been active in the Worcester Women's History Project and has portrayed Clara Barton at the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum in North Oxford, MA. She will portray Clara Barton here in a program entitled "Follow the Cannons: A Reading of Clara Barton's Civil War Letters," on Wednesday March 26 at 6:30 PM. |
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Re-dedication of the Memorial Hall and GAR Meeting Room
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Rep Bruce Tarr and Sen Brad Hill attended the ceremony.
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Celebrate Abraham Lincoln's
200th Birthday
Join us in our 5th annual town-wide book group. This winter we will focus on Abraham Lincoln, offering fiction and non-fiction, adult, young adult, and children's materials, audiobooks, programs, and discussion groups. This topic is especially significant to the Manchester Public Library because the Circulation Hall was originally a Civil War Memorial and the Reference Room was built as a meeting place for the Grand Army of the Republic. The mystery statue in the crawl space, America Honoring Her Fallen Brave, was created in response to the carnage of that war. The Trustees plan to display that statue this winter. Choose a book to read or listen to. Sign up for a book discussion group. And the next time you are in the Library, stop and read the names on the marble plaques in the Circulation/Memorial Hall. Thinking
about Lincoln The bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth is just over a year away, but it’s not too early to start celebrating, especially as our 16th president has long been a favorite of biographers (not to mention impersonators and advertisers). Previous books have explored the Great Emancipator’s family, politics, cabinet and even his frame of mind. Expect to see more studies of Lincoln—joining those by the likes of Carl Sandburg, David Herbert Donald and Doris Kearns Godwin—during the countdown to February 2009. Non-Fiction:
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Fiction
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Lincoln By Vidal, Gore 2000/02 - Vintage Books USA 9780375708763 Check Our Catalog Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the
history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II
years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical
characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American
political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly,
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The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
By Hambly, Barbara 2005/01 - Bantam Books 9780553803013 Check Our Catalog Ten years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the
president's widow is incarcerated in an insane asylum by her only surviving
son. It is from this little-known episode that Hambly spins her intimate,
insightful tapestry of this difficult, too-intelligent woman's life.
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Assassin By Myers, Anna 2005/09 - Walker & Company 9780802789891 Check Our Catalog John Wilkes Booth--the most charismatic and famous
actor of his time--persuades Bella, an assistant seamstress to Mary Todd
Lincoln, to help with his plot to kidnap President Lincoln. When the plot
fails, Booth will stop at nothing--even if it means harming Bella.
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Busted Flush By Smith, Brad 2005/03 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805076509 Check Our Catalog Civil War buffs and con men collide in this
wickedly funny story. While renovating a house he's just inherited in
Gettysburg, Dock Bass stumbles upon some Civil War memorabilia. Now he's
forced to defend his new find from the collectors, history buffs, and media
hounds descending on his doorstep.
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The Curse of Cain By Powell, J. Mark Meagher, L. D. 2005/04 - Forge 9780765310880 Check Our Catalog |
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Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories
By Braver, Adam 2003/02 - William Morrow & Company 9780060081188 Check Our Catalog Narrated from the multiple perspectives of Abraham
Lincoln and those whose lives he touched, this highly ambitious collection
of 13 stories interweaves fact and fiction to probe the darker, more human
side of the 16th president--a leader and man plagued by the raging Civil War
and also by his grief over the death of his young son.
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Abe: A Novel about Abraham Lincoln's Youth
By Slotkin, Richard 2000/02 - John MacRae Books 9780805041231 Check Our Catalog THE PAST LINCOLN KEPT HIDDEN: A NOVEL THAT REVEALS THE SOURCES OF HIS LEGENDARY COMPASSION AND BRILLIANCE A stunning work of historical imagination. Abe immerses the reader in the isolating poverty and frontier violence that shaped Abraham Lincoln's character. Marked by the death of his beloved mother and the struggle to keep reading and learning in the face of his father's fierce disapproval, Abe perseveres, growing into the man who changed the course of American history. Abe comes of age in the course of a dramatic
flatboat journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Along
the way, Abe and his companions encounter slavery firsthand and experience
the violence -- and the pleasures -- of rough river towns, plantations, and
the cities of Natchez and New Orleans. Numerous historical figures make
appearances alongside th
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Booth By Robertson, David 1998/12 - Anchor Books 9780385487078 Check Our Catalog In the tradition of "The Alienist" and "Time and
Again", this spellbinding first novel recounts the tragic coming of age of a
young man, who is unwittingly manipulated into helping John Wilkes Booth
assassinate President Lincoln. 12 photos.
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An Acquaintance with Darkness By Rinaldi, Ann 1997/10 - Gulliver Books 9780152012946 Check Our Catalog Chaos reigns in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln
has just been assassinated and the city is reeling with fear and suspicion.
But to Emily Bransby Pigbush, the turmoil is nothing compared to the
personal struggle she faces when she suspects that her uncle, a respected
physician, is involved in body snatching.
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Henry and Clara By Mallon, Thomas 1995/08 - Picador USA 9780312135089 Check Our Catalog Blending fact with fiction, Mallon vividly
re-creates the tragic story of Henry and Clara Rathbone--the young couple
who sat in the President's box on the night of Lincoln's assassination.
Witnessing the event that shook the entire nation changed their lives
forever, leading to guilt, madness, and eventually murder. A moving and
astonishing story based on a little known tale.
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A Bullet for Lincoln By King, Benjamin 1993/06 - Pelican Publishing Company 9780882899275 Check Our Catalog The notorious assassin Anderson from Benjamin
King's A Bullet for Stonewall is back--hired to stage the final exit for an
even bigger quarry, President Abraham Lincoln. King takes the political
trauma caused by the ending of the Civil War and Lincoln's death and makes
the most out of it when he puts together his own fictional view of the
assassination through the eyes of Anderson. An intriguing speculative twist
to historical facts.
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A Court for Owls By Adicks, Richard 1989/09 - Pineapple Press (FL) 9780910923651 Check Our Catalog |
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Love Is Eternal By Stone, Irving 1961/04 - Doubleday Books 9780385020404 Check Our Catalog |
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Freedom: Part 1 By Safire, William 1994/08 - Blackstone Audiobooks 9780786104635 Check Our Catalog William Safire's epic Civil War novel is based on
the real people who struggled and bled for what Southerners hailed as
independence, Northerners condemned as "disunion".
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