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Boyle to lead discussion group \ Tuesdays with Morrie will be the topic of the Friends’ book discussion group, which meets on the third Thursday of each month (May 20) at 3:30 p.m. Debbie Boyle will lead a dis cussion of the best-selling memoir of a man who devotes Tuesday afternoons to a favor ite professor who is now in the last days of his life. East of the Mountains by David Guterson tells of a wid owed doctor with terminal can cer who sets off on one last hunting trip into his beloved mountains, a trip from which he does not plan to return. What he experiences along the way, both from his own thoughts and from encounters with other people stirs a profound change within him. Author Guterson’s other novel, Snow Falling on Cedars is now being made into a film. In another “Ivy League Mys tery” by Pamela Thomas-Gra ham, Yale is the scene of the crime. A black football player is suspected of killing a profes-, sor and New Haven becomes divided along racial lines in Blue Blood. From Mary Higgins Clark: We'll Meet Again. A woman, who has served time for the murder of her husband, begins / Rosalie Boyd Check it OUT a search for the true murderer upon her release from prison. Set in upscale Greenwich, Con necticut, the investigation leads to a complex case of em bezzlement, HMO fraud and personal vendettas. Christian fiction from Ja nette Oake and T. Davis Bunn: The Meeting Place is set in Acadia in 1753 where French settlers and British settlers live parallel lives, always viewing the other with suspicion and fear. Then in a chance encoun ter, differences are shed and a friendship is forged. Dr. Caitlin Taylor wants to reunite estranged twins, one capable of saving the other’s life, in Thief of Hearts, a medi cal drama and romance. Au thor Katherine Stone, who now DENTON LIONS CLUB Auction & Barbecue FRIDAY, MAY 14,1999 Meals Served 5 - 7 p.m. • Auction 7 p.m. American Legion Building $5.00 Per Plate writes full-time, was formerly a practicing physician. | Bone by Bone by Peter Mat 8 tiessen is the concluding book * in the author’s trilogy set in the Florida Everglades. This final | book is told in the voice of Mr. Watson - whose controversial and violent life began the se ries - beginning with Recon struction days and ending with his death just before World War I. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi is a powerful novella that re veals a man’s thoughts as he prepares to leave the woman with whom he has spent the last six years. His guilt and sorrow are overwhelmed by his desire to move on in search of fresh experiences. Sisters are living a structured existence until two fairly quirky and unconventional re lationships develop and change the patterns of their lives in Falling Slowly by Anita Brook ner. Project Girl by Janet Mc Donald is the true story of a black woman who grew up in the New York City housing projects. In stark contrast to her neighborhood, she earned degrees from Vassar, Colum bia, and New York University and now practices law in Paris. Her life is even more amazing, though, because she had more than her share of problems. She brought most of these prob lems on herself, but somehow See LIBRARY On Page 8-A Edenton Lions getting ready for their annual Auction and Evans, auctioneer; Charles Morgan, ticket sales chairman; Barbecue Sale are (l-r): Lion President Bill Hicks; Wallace Jack Revels, auctioneer; and Bud Miller, event chairman. Lions get ready for annual auction Edenton Lions Club members are busy getting ready for their annual Bar-B-Que Dinner and Auction that will be held Fri day, May 14, at the American Legion Post 40 building. The Bar-B-Que Dinner will be served from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for dining in before the auction or for carry-out. 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