Adult Book Discussion
The South Berwick Public Library book group meets the first Wednesday of every month and alternates between fiction and nonfiction selections. Copies of this month’s selection are available at the library for anyone who wants to join us. Check the current post on the home page to see what we are reading.
Books Read in 2020
- One Goal: a Coach, a Team and a Game that Brought a Divided Town Together by Amy Bass
- In the Woods by Tana French
- Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James
- Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
- Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- Upriver Passamaquoddy by Allen Sockabasin
Books Read in 2019
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Other Wise by Mary Lou Bagley
- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu & Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- After the Eclipse: a Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amol Towles
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Telling Room: a Tale of Love, Revenge and the World’s Greatest Cheese by Michael Paterniti
Books Read in 2018
- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley
- We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler
- The Road to Character by David Brook
- Sweetland by Michael Crummey
- Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
- The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Books Read in 2017
- Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Thunderstruck by Eric Larson
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Molly Spotted Elk by Bonnie MacBride
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
- The Tenth of December by George Saunders
Digital Tutoring ~ This service not available during the Covid-19 health emergency
One-on-One digital tutoring on computers or an electronic device
Is the tablet or e-reader your son or daughter gave you still in its box since your birthday last fall? Would you like someone to help you learn to take a picture and send it, or a text? Meet with our staff with your tech device, or just your questions. Call the Library and we will help you make an appointment for a convenient time.