Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012: Not-Too-Stuffy Book Group Reads One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.) After Adam March loses his job, his wife, and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill a community-service obligation at a soup kitchen, where he meets Chance, a pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being Adam’s best shot at redemption. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) Link to the catalog.
(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.) In Cape Cod, Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich life. But at twenty-two, Jane knows that soon she will be expected to move out of her father’s home and start a household of her own. When a bitter feud between her father and a fellow miller erupts into a shocking act of violence, Jane’s trust is shaken. And when Jane rejects a marriage with the young man Jane’s father has chosen for her, she is sent to Boston to care for a spinster aunt. It is the eve of the Revolutionary War when Jane arrives in this bustling city awash with red coats and rebellious fervor. There, she is caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love. Grippingly rendered, The Rebellion of Jane Clarke is a compelling story of one woman’s struggle to find her own place and leave her own mark on a new country as it is born. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.) Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me along the Way chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.) On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but has disappeared without a trace. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.) A remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, this memoir takes a penetrating look into the author’s family, at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) Hercule Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will also be his last. Librarian Nancy Aberman will lead this discussion. Copies of this book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.)
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) London’s classic novel concerns Buck, a dog abducted from his home and thrust into the merciless world of an Arctic north consumed by a quest for gold. Join others at the Senior Center for a discussion of this book. Copies of this book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
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