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Reading About Racism Book Group

1st Tuesday at 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.

August 6: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander

September 3: Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools by Jonathan Kozol

October 1: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

November 5: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

December 3: Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family Amy Ellis Nutt

Discussions will take place in the Milford Room, and a Zoom link will be available for those that wish to join us virtually. Send a message to refdesk@wadleighlibrary.org; if you'd like to receive the link to the meeting. 

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk for pickup. 

Newcomers welcome.


Cookbook Club

2nd Wednesday at 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Find and share a new recipe at our Cookbook Club! Bring a dish to share with others and let us know what recipe you used. Each club meeting will feature a selected cookbook that can be checked out at the front desk for you to try.

Discussions will take place in the Milford Room. 

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk for pickup. 

Newcomers welcome.


Morning Book Group

2nd Thursday at 10 - 11:15 a.m.

August 8: Absolution by Alice McDermott

September 12: The Cove by Catherine Coulter

October 10: Squeeze Me by Carol Hiaasen

November 14: This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Discussions will take place in the Milford Room. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk for pickup. 

Newcomers welcome.


History Book Club

3rd Wednesday at 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.

August 21: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the raid that sparkd the Civil  War by Tony Horwitz

September 18: The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by David Grann

October 16: First Principles: what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that changed our country by Thomas Ricks

November 20: How the Hell Did This Happen? The election of 2016 by P.J. O'Rourke

December 18: Voyage of Mercy: the USS Jamestown, the Irish famine and the remarkable story of America's first humanitarian mission by Stephen Puleo

Discussions will take place in the Milford Room, and a Zoom link will be available for those that wish to join us virtually. Send a message to refdesk@wadleighlibrary.org; if you'd like to receive the link to the meeting.  

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk for pickup. 

Newcomers welcome.


Evening Book Group

4th Tuesday at 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

August 27: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

September 24: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

October 22: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

November 26: The Reunion by Dan Walsh

Discussions will take place in the Milford Room. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk for pickup.

Newcomers welcome.