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Featuring Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Meet fellow readers, make lasting friendships, and read great books! First we meet & mingle, and then our expert staff guides a lively discussion about thoughtfully selected titles—from classics to new releases. Bring your enthusiasm and love of reading, even if you don't get a chance to read this month's title.
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Here's what we're reading this month Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives quietly with his broken father, a former linguist now shelving books at Harvard's library. For a decade, their lives have been shaped by laws meant to preserve "American culture" after years of unrest, with authorities relocating dissidents' children, particularly those of Asian descent. Libraries have been forced to remove unpatriotic books, including those by Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family. Bird, having disavowed her, receives a mysterious letter that draws him into a quest to find her, uncovering hidden stories, an underground network, and the possibility of change
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New Appleby Branch opened in Appleview Plaza on October 20, 1983, having served the local neighbourhoods first as Skyway Branch (1965), and New Appleby Branch in Appleby Mall (1972).