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Your Home Away From Home: The Tourist, Settler or Spy
Through June 29

Your Home Away From Home is a book-to-film discussion series which features six works on making a new home in a foreign land. Participants discuss what it's like to be the "other" as well as what is essential to our shared humanity. Presented by the Abington Community Library, the remaining sessions in the series run from February 23rd to June 29th and include A Passage to India, Out of Africa, The Quiet American, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and My Life in France.

Upcoming Events

Pennsylvania Writers
Tuesday, March 16
Hastings

Facts in Fiction: The Civil War Era
Wednesday, March 17
Kittanning

Books on Screen
Wednesday, March 17
Johnsonburg

Detecting Women
Thursday, March 18
Canonsburg

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