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A community reading program which focuses on one book and the themes it presents...

Town Residents selected a book for this year's program by voting for one of the titles below. For a full review of a title, please click on the book's cover.

	ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE	In this very topical memoir, Kingsolver has penned a "heroic story" that demonstrates how growing your own fruits and vegetables, with people you love, can be as rewarding an experience as any on the face of the earth. The author's passion and narrative prowess make Animal an entertaining, often page-turning read.
	BREAKFAST WITH THE BUDDHA	Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series and Golfing with God, delivers a comic but winningly spiritual road-trip novel. This is a wonderful, heartfelt novel that frequently surprises as we're lulled by the sights and sounds of the open road. The skillful Merullo, using the lightest of touches, slowly turns this low-key comedy into a moving story of spiritual awakening.
	FROM BAGHDAD WITH LOVE	The Winner! During his tour of duty in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman of the U.S. Marines endured the emotional stress common for those involved in bloody battles for freedom. Kopelman and his comrades adopted an abandoned puppy left behind after the battle for Fallujah. The dog befriended the Marines and was eventually smuggled out of Iraq with the help of NPR reporters, Iraqi citizens, and the Iams pet food company.
	THE GOLDEN COMPASS	Philip Pullman has created a stunning alternate universe peopled by those who seem familiarly human and by miraculous creatures: daemons, armored bears, witches. But now something sinister is abroad in this strangely modern, strangely archaic world, and 12-year-old Lyra Belacqua must try to discover the truth
	THE GOOD, GOOD PIG	This is a book not so much about a barnyard animal as about relationships, in all their messy, joyous, and heartbreaking complexity. In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. The Good Good Pig is a good, good book, beautifully rendered and filled with wondrous surprises.”