The Starcatchers Book Club (Grades 5 and up) will meet on Monday, November 17th from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the Conference Room at the Beebe Library.  We’ll kick off the new season, catch up on summer reading and select our next read.  Snacks and soda will be served.

The next gathering of Beebe Library’s book discussion group, Books By the Lake, is on November 19, 2008 when the book group will discuss Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill.

The Boston Globe called On Agate Hill, “as lyrical and haunting as an Appalachian ballad.” The time period that Lee Smith knowledgeably sets this involving novel within encompasses the years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century; her setting is North Carolina. The novel is composed of real documents, such as diary entries, letters, and court documents, and the author fashions, in gradual steps through time and from the telling perspectives of different individuals, the riveting character Molly Petree. She is an orphan at war’s end, dependent on being taken in by family, but she isn’t the type to stay at the mercy of anyone. Her pluck, fortitude, resilience, and wisdom prompt her not only to take things as they come during this disorderly time in the South but also to dictate her own fortune and make a life in which she can find some peace. This novel of treachery and resolution provides an intimate picture of the Reconstruction era, observed through the lens not of politicians and generals but of the common folk upon whose shoulders the actual reconstruction of a ravaged land rested.

For more on this book group, please view Books By the Lake’s page.

Supper Sleuths, a mystery discussion group, meets every second Tuesday evening at 6:00pm to discuss mysteries of every genre and type. Feel free to bring your own snack or brown bag lunch with you to the meeting.

The next Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place December 9, 2008 at 5:45pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall. Read any mystery and join us for our holiday potluck. It is a great opportunity to choose titles from previous Supper Sleuth lists, wish lists, and the new book area.

For more on this group’s schedule, go to the Supper Sleuths page

Supper Sleuths, a mystery discussion group, meets every second Tuesday evening at 6:00pm to discuss mysteries of every genre and type. Feel free to bring your own snack or brown bag lunch with you to the meeting.
Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place November 4, 2008 (a week early due to the Veteran’s Day Holiday 11/11) at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall. The group will be discussing Political Thrillers.

For more on this group’s schedule, go to the Supper Sleuths page

Supper Sleuths, a mystery discussion group, meets every second Tuesday evening at 6:00pm to discuss mysteries of every genre and type. Feel free to bring your own snack or brown bag lunch with you to the meeting.
Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place October 14, 2008 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall. The group will be discussing one book, Louis Bayard’s historical mystery, The Pale Blue Eye.

For more on this group’s schedule, go to the Supper Sleuths page

The next gathering of Beebe Library’s book discussion group, Books By the Lake, is on October 15, 2008 when the book group will discuss Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond by Roland Merullo.

The author returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Revere’s working-class streets mix with the warmth and affirmation of family to form a background against which Merullo’s later wanderings are always set. 2003 Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction.

For more on this book group, please view Books By the Lake’s page.

Supper Sleuths, a discussion group for mystery readers, will meet on Tuesday, October 14, at 6 p.m. to discuss Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye.

Books by the Lake will meet on Wednesday, October 15 to discuss Roland Merullo’s Revere Beach Elegy: a Memoir of Home and Beyond.

Learn more about all of Beebe Library’s book discussion groups.

After a summer hiatus, all of Beebe Library’s book discussion groups are set to get back into full swing starting this month.

The next gathering of Books by the Lake is on September 17, 2008 when the group will discuss “Mrs. Kimble” and “Baker Towers” by Jennifer Haigh. “Mrs. Kimble” follows twenty-five years in the life of charismatic opportunist Ken Kimble as seen through the eyes of his three wives: Birdie, who struggles with his abandonment; heiress Joan, who is recovering from a personal loss; and Dinah, who suffers from an unhappy past.

“Baker Towers” concerns the decade following World War II, which becomes one of tragedy, excitement, and unexpected change for the five Novak children and the residents of
their western Pennsylvania community of company houses, church festivals, union squabbles, and firemen’s parades. Both novels convey a theme of illusion versus reality as well as other potent relationship matters.

Books by the Lake meets on the third Wednesday of each month, September through June. This book discussion group combines the enjoyment of reading a single title and the desire to share insights, observations, and feelings about that one book with others who have read it. So many novels create a need in some readers to share their reactions about the book with others, as well as an opportunity to personally grow from the discussions of related themes and common experiences.

All adults enthusiastic about reading and talking about what they have read are invited to attend as often as they can. The conversations are lively, intelligent, and insightful - come and join us! For a full schedule of titles for this year, go to our web site at
www.wakefieldlibrary.org/book-discussion-groups/books-by-the-lake/ or pick up a flyer at the Reference Desk.

Supper Sleuths, a mystery discussion group, meets every second Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. to discuss mysteries of every genre and type. Feel free to bring your own snack or brown bag lunch with you to the meeting. Supper Sleuths will next meet on Tuesday, October 14, when the group will discuss Louis Bayard’s “The Pale Blue Eye.”

The Senior Center Book Group meets regularly at the John J. McCarthy Senior Center on Converse Street, with a Beebe Library staff member leading the discussion. For more information contact the Senior Center or call Beebe Library at 781-246-6334.

New members are always welcome at book discussion groups. For more information, including meeting dates and a list of titles on tap for each group, go online at www.wakefieldlibrary.org/book-discussion-groups/.