Adult Book Discussion Groups
Adult Fiction Book Discussion Group
The library's Adult Book Discussion Group always welcomes new members! The group meets the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Library's craft activity room. Meetings are informal. You can join the discussion as much or as little as you like. Take a look at the list of books we'll be talking about this year.
January 29, 2008
Evening by Susan Minot
Genre: Fiction
Now ailing and surrounded by her children, sixty-five-year-old Ann Grant Lord reminisces about a glorious summer weekend some forty years earlier during which she met and lost the love of her life.
February 26, 2008
In Revere in those days by Roland Merullo
Genre: Fiction
Anthony Benedetto, a young boy in a large extended Italian-American family, descibes growing up in the working-class community of Revere , Massachusetts , but his youth is changed forever by the tragic deaths of his parents.
March 25, 2008
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
Genre: Fiction
In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction.
Warm and wise, enchanting and funny
April 29, 2008
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Genre:
: Classic fiction
The tale of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, who enters the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learns the story of the house's first mistress to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted
May 27, 2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Genre: Domestic fiction
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
Adult Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group
Read and discuss books on a variety of topics:
February 11th, 7:00 PM
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm by Jane Brox
March 10th, 7:00 PM
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History
of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
Follow the author as he traces 4 meals back to their sources. You'll learn something new whether you eat at McDonald's, shop at Market Basket or Whole Foods, or go hunting. A great read about what it really means to eat in today's society.
April 14th, 7:00 PM
The Genetic Strand, exploring a family
history through DNA
By Edward Ball
Read the story of a writer's investigation, using DNA science, into the tale of his family's origins. National Book Award winner Edward Ball has turned his probing gaze on the microcosm of the human genome, and not just any human genome - that of his slave-holding ancestors. "What is the legacy of such a family history, and can DNA say something about it?"
May 19th, 7:00 PM
Mayflower: a Story of Courage,
Community and War By Nat Philbrick
Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war.
Copies of the books will be available to borrow from
the library. There is no registration necessary!
Stop by at our next meeting, or wait until we discuss a book you've been dying to read. Pick up a copy of the book-of-the-month at the Circulation Desk. If you have questions about the books or meetings, ask for more information at the Reference Desk, or call 978.640.4490, ext. 207.
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