Help select the 2015 Big Read title!

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* Your vote will help the Library select the next great book for the April 2015 Big Read. We want to know which of the three suggested titles you would like to see featured in our one book, one community celebration. Thank you! Please respond by Wednesday, July 31.

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury – In a bleak, dystopian future where television rules and literature is near extinction, fireman Guy Montag’s job is to destroy the printed book and the houses in which they are hidden. Then an eccentric neighbor introduces him to a world where one sees the world through ideas in books instead of mindless TV chatter.

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – This novel, set in prosperous 1922 Long Island, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion for Daisy Buchanan. It explores themes of decadence, idealism and resistance to change, creating a cautionary tale about the American Dream.

“True Grit” by Charles Portis – In this classic Western, Spinster Mattie Ross in 1903 recounts the story of her adventures years earlier when, at 14, she undertook a quest to avenge her father’s death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney. She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf.