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Sun.: 1–5pm (June–August)
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St. Charles History Museum
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| Book Title | Author |
| A List of Cages | Robin Roe |
| Illegal | Eoin Colfer |
| Positive | Paige Rawl |
| Lockdown | Alexander Gordon Smith |
| Book Title | Author |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Book Title | Author |
| A Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys |
| Laughing at My Nightmare | Shane Burcaw |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
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Chasing Lincoln’s Killer | James L. Swanson |
Mr. Lincoln’s High Tech War | Thomas B. Allen |
Photo By Brady | Jennifer Armstrong |
| Book Title | Author |
| American Sniper | Kyle McEwen |
| The Forbidden Schoolhouse | Suzanne Jumaine |
| The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History | John M. Barry |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Midnight in Cherynobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster | Adam Higginbotham |
| Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| The Demon in the Freezer | Richard Preston |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
| No Time to Lose | Peter Piot |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz | Heather Dune Macadam |
| Stiff | Mary Roach |
| Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever | Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Moneyball | Michael Lewis |
| Branded | Alissa Quart |
| The Innovators | Walter Isaacson |
| 1421 | Gavin Menzies |
| Argo | Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio |
| Behind Rebel Lines | Seymour Reit |
| A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II | Sonia Purnell |
| City of Scoundrels | Gary Krist |
| Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
| Eight Men Out | Eliot Asinof |
| Flags of our Fathers | James Bradley and Ron Powers |
| Parkland: Birth of a Movement | Dave Cullen |
| The Beauty Myth | Naomi Wolf |
| The Cheating Culture | David Calhoun |
| Columbine | Dave Cullen |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Life, Animated | Ron Suskind |
| The Paradox of Choice | Barry Schwartz |
| When March Went Mad | Seth Davis |
| Bad Or, The Dumbing Down of America | Paul Fussell |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Educated : A Memoir | Tara Westover |
| Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage | Dan Crenshaw |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation | Jonathan Hennessey |
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor | Thomas Foster |
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The Underground Railroad | Colin Whitehead |
The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
Sing Unburied Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
Every Tuesday at 6:30pm, Misty and Aimee go LIVE on Instagram and Facebook. Follow them and make sure to turn on notifications! www.instagram.com/bplbatavia/
Wed., Aug. 4, 1:30pm
In-person event
Share your favorite recent reads, play a book-themed game, and maybe discover other books to try.
ends Aug. 9
Don’t forget to turn in your paper reading logs or enter your books read/activities done on the Beanstack app or online at bataviapubliclibrary.org/beanstack/.
Batavia Public Library subscribes to a variety of reference databases, which are useful for doing research.
Library Databases
Get a feel for what testing day will be like by taking a free practice SAT test, courtesy of Princeton Review. Bring water, #2 pencils, and an energy snack, as well as an SAT-approved calculator. Scores will be available online within a week of taking the test. Registration is required.
Check our calendar for the next test.
