Launch Countdown


Assembly Flight: 33S
Mission: Expedition: 34/35
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz TMA-07M
Launch Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Description: Soyuz TMA-07M will carry three Expedition 34/35 crew members to the International Space Station.

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GO DOGS GO!

Proud supporter of the
Saint John Sea Dogs.

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Wise Words

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

-- Bernard Meltzer

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Here is the complete list of Oprah’s Book Club selections, arranged by year. (I’ve crossed out the ones I’ve read.)

2008

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

2007

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

2006

Night by Elie Wiesel

2005

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

2004

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

2003

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2002

Sula by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2001

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

2000

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Open House by Elizabeth Berg
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

1999

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Jewel by Bret Lott

1998

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Paradise by Toni Morrison

1997

The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

1996

The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Social Butterfly

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Twittering

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