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The participants in "One Town, One Book" are receiving copies of the chosen book, "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.  There will be a tea, and a showing of the classic movie starring Gregory Peck soon.  The Teddy Bears' Picnic will be on Saturday, May 19, at 11:30 a.m.  Please call or sign up at the library if you would like to attend.  The next meetings for the Craft and Hobby Club will be April 12 and 26, at 11 a.m.  Remember, May is Get Caught Reading Month!

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Book Discussion Group

The book club meets once a month at the library at 7 PM.  For more information call the library at 814-367-5411.  Everyone is welcome. The book for the June 5, 2012 meeting is "The Leftovers" by Tom Perrotta.

What if your life was upended in an instant? What if your spouse or your child disappeared right in front of your eyes? Was it the Rapture or something even more difficult to explain? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? These are the questions confronting the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, a formerly comfortable suburban community that lost over a hundred people in the Sudden Departure. Kevin Garvey, the new mayor, wants to move forward, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized neighbors, even as his own family disintegrates. His wife, Laurie, has left him to enlist in the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence but haunt the town’s streets as “living reminders” of God’s judgment. His son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a crooked "prophet" who calls himself Holy Wayne. Only his teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she’s definitely not the sweet "A" student she used to be.

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The Westfield Public Library is a member of the Potter-Tioga Library System