SEASON HANDBOOK 2019-2020

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 WASHINGTON BLACK By Esi Edugyan Eleven-year-old George Washington Black-or Wash-a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon, Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 KINGDOM OF THE BLIND By Louise Penny When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.

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