Book Discussions

Please join us on Wednesday, July 17, at 7 pm in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, for an evening of the “joy and justice of biodiversity” with Co-Author of “The Ark of Taste” David Shields and Director of Network Engagement at Slow Food USA Deion Jones.

We are happy to welcome Author Elizabeth Birkelund on Monday, June 3, at 7 pm, for a conversation about her new book, “A Northern Light in Provence.” The program will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library.

Join us on Thursday, May 30, at 7 pm for a discussion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery, “The Hound of the Baskervlles.” The discussion will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building.

Eric Garcia, author of “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation,” will be our guest for a Zoom Book Talk on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 pm.

Debut Author Jiaming Tang will present a book discussion and signing of his book, “Cinema Love,” on Wednesday, May 22, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library, Perrot Memorial Library.

We are pleased to welcome Ramin Ganeshram, author of “The General’s Cook,” on Wednesday, April 24, at 7 pm. This book talk is Part 1 of a three-part series entitled “Historical Foodways: Seed, Hearth & Taste,” which will feature food writers, historians, and seed savers.

Tonight’s program is postponed because the speaker is ill. We are working to schedule a new date. We apologize for the last-minute cancellation.

Perrot P.I.s, the Library’s monthly mystery book group, will meet next on Monday, April 15, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library, to discuss “What the Dead Know, ” by Laura Lippman. All are welcome.

Author Hilke Schellmann, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and assistant professor of journalism at New York University, will discuss her latest book, The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, and Why We Need to Fight Back, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library, Perrot Memorial Library. This program is designed to highlight World AI Week, April 15-19, 2024.