Traditionally women have been listeners and readers but not speakers and writers. This can change. Whatever you write, and you would like to share, bring it along the fourth Friday of the month. Or, there might be something written that you have found to inspire you deeply, bring that along too.

Our name is Women Sharing Words, which is exactly what we do. The history of women writing is long and deep. Too many of us have had to wait. Please come, join together with other women, enjoy a cup of tea, and good company, the fourth Friday of the month at the Elizabeth Taber Library.

Please contact the library, 508-748-1252 with any questions.

]]> http://www.elizabethtaberlibrary.org/women-sharing-words-december-meeting/feed 0 http://www.elizabethtaberlibrary.org/how-to-download-books-to-your-mp3-player-with-overdrive http://www.elizabethtaberlibrary.org/how-to-download-books-to-your-mp3-player-with-overdrive#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:07:58 +0000 eileen http://www.elizabethtaberlibrary.org/?p=644 Use the SAILS Network to download free library books to your iPhone, iPad, iTouch or other MP3 device, follow the simple instructions below.

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When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that “sick” man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won’t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can’t be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it — at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

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Note: You will need to sign into Overdrive with your SAILS library card and you will need to have registered your Kindle with Amazon.

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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011: When Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks came to live on Martha’s Vineyard in 2006, she ran across a map by the island’s native Wampanoag people that marked the birthplace of Caleb, first Native American to graduate of Harvard College–in 1665. Her curiosity piqued, she unearthed and fleshed out his thin history, immersing herself in the records of his tribe, of the white families that settled the island in the 1640s, and 17th-century Harvard. In Caleb’s Crossing, Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how–in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage–he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island’s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia’s father soon realizes Caleb’s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island’s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard’s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. –Mari Malcolm

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss’s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss’s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.
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