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 September 9, 2008 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall. The group will be discussing the works of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer series and Robert B. Parker Spenser series.

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

Too hot to do anything but swing in a hammock and read? Have we got books for you!
Adrenalin junkies have an array of new tales of action-packed adventure and turmoil to entertain and enthrall. Mark Alpert’s Final Theory is by a first-time author in the Michael Crichton vein. A science historian is on the run from the U.S. government and a ruthless assassin as he tries to uncover the meaning of a series of numbers whispered to him by his dying mentor. This “Scientific American” editor executes the action with enthusiasm and lays out the science without overwhelming the reader.
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The next gathering of Beebe Library’s book discussion group, Books By the Lake, is on September 17, 2008 when the book group will discuss Mrs. Kimble and Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh.
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In what is known as the Golden Age of detective fiction (1920-1939), women writers took the spotlight. The quintet of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh starred brightly during this era. The novelist focuses on a crime (typically a murder) and criminal, a victim, and a detective who resolves the crime through deduction, an examination of clues, and in some cases, a reconstruction of the crime itself. These mysteries have been called classical, traditional, or cozy, as well as village mystery, domestic malice, or Golden Age mystery.
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The next meeting of the Senior Center Book Group is Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:30 a.m., at the McCarthy Senior Center (30 Converse Street). Join us for an enjoyable hour of coffee and conversation.

The book to be discussed at this meeting is Mayflower A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Copies of this award-winning history are available at the library circulation desk. Large print and audio versions are available.

Future reading selections will be discussed at this meeting.